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Regex The ways I used regex in Alteryx Challenge 121

Jul 25, 2023 Terrence Miller | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today I learned about regex. Before joining the Data School I had never heard of it before so it was my first time experiencing it.

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Prep Dash - IMDb Movies Dashboard Week Day 2

Jul 25, 2023 Shreya Arya | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today was Day 2 of Dashboard Week. Our challenge for today was to create a dashboard using IMBd Data, and to only use Tableau Prep for any data preparation. Want to find out how it went? Click to read on…

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Lights Camera NoAction

Jul 25, 2023 Zak Saucede | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 2’s Dashboard Week task was to download, process, prepare and visualise data from the website IMDb. The original files were .gz (gzipped) format so my first step started with downloading the data and then unzipping the files using 7-Zip File M...

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Joins vs. Relationships Logical Physical Layers

Jul 25, 2023 Lex Devlin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When you boot up Tableau and drop some data in, the first thing you’re met with is the infamously named “noodle” view.

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Getting in Shape

Jul 25, 2023 Vivian Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

(Originally posted on my own blog here, on January 18, 2023.)

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Dashboard Week Day 2 Timeline

Jul 25, 2023 Reshika Chilakapati | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Dashboard week day 2 involved analyzing IMDB ratings and only using Tableau Prep to clean the data. The data came in the form of zipped TSV files - which was very new to me. This blog involves the timeline of what I did today from the morning till...

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Dashboard Week Day 2 - IMDb

Jul 25, 2023 Lorenz Nacilla | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For Dashboard week day 2, we were tasked with working IMDb data. We were free to do with what we want with the data.

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Dashboard Week Day 2

Jul 25, 2023 Tom Gould | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today kicked off with downloading and unzipping several large datasets from the iMDB website containing information on every single title in their database. My main objective today was to plan everything out so that I had a solid structure to the ...

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Dashboard Day 2 - IMDB

Jul 25, 2023 George Ledger | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Plan for the Day:

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Battle of the BANs

Jul 25, 2023 Vivian Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

(Originally posted on my blog here, on January 25, 2023.)

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Basics of Regex

Jul 25, 2023 Nitesh Shrestha | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today, at The Data School, I had the opportunity to learn Regular Expressions (Regex) for the first time. I have to say this was an entirely novel concept to me. As a data professional, the prospect of exploring this powerful tool and its endless ...

Bar in Bar Chart in Tableau

Jul 25, 2023 Tobias Fitschen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Right now the DSDE 5 cohort is about to finish week 3 and we already learned a lot about Tableau. So why not write something about the stuff we learned? Hence, this blog will describe how to visualize a bar in bar chart like the following:

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How to Use Tableaus Dynamic Zone Visibility to Highlight Selected Measures

Jul 25, 2023 Dan Bunker | playfairdata.com

Welcome to an exploration of Tableau’s Dynamic Zone Visibility, a powerful feature introduced in Tableau Desktop version 2022.3 that brings…The post How to Use Tableau’s Dynamic Zone Visibility to Highlight Selected Measures appeared first on Play...

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ThoughtSpot 101 Row-Level Security

Jul 25, 2023 Jack Hulbert | interworks.com

In this blog, we’re going to cover some fundamentals for a successful Row-Level Security (RLS) implementation in ThoughtSpot. What is RLS? RLS Benefits RLS Use Cases Admin Permissions Overview Group Setup Step–by–Step Instructions Overview Step–by...

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Create Real ROI with Data Science

Jul 25, 2023 Azucena Coronel | interworks.com

Our new Solutions Spotlight series will focus on client outcomes, use case solutions, impactful new technology and best practices across data and analytics. We’ll cover strategy, governance, user adoption, finding ROI quickly, architecture, agile ...

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part 3 of 3 Creating Formatting and Displaying our Change

Jul 24, 2023 John Power | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This guide follows on from https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/john-power/creating-a-comparison-range-based-off-of-chosen-month-range/ in which we calculate our ‘Sales for Comparison Month Range’. We will also need ‘Sales for Selected Month Range’ whi...

part 2 of 3 Creating a Comparison Range based off of a Chosen Month Range

Jul 24, 2023 John Power | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog follows on from https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/john-power/creating-a-start-and-end-date-month-selectors in which Start Date and End Date parameters were created and used to view the SUM of Sales for a selected month range.

Using RegEx on Alteryx

Jul 24, 2023 Sakif Chowdhury | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A regular expression (regex) is a string that is used for describing patterns. These can be very helpful for analyzing text data or extracting the data that you need from text.

Tableau Understanding and Applying Context Filters

Jul 24, 2023 Nitesh Shrestha | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau offers several types of filters that allow users to apply conditions to include or exclude records for various analytical purposes. In this blog, we will focus on context filters, which are a crucial type of filter. We will explore its app...

Tableau Containers

Jul 24, 2023 Tabitha Diaz | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Until a few weeks ago, I never used containers to build a dashboard. I would spend hours working on one dashboard with multiple floating parts. At the time it was fun until the dashboard needed to be switched around or the sizing changed. These ar...

How to create a must include filter.

Jul 24, 2023 Terrence Miller | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today I attempted Workout Wednesday 2021 Week 10.

Hearing Your Viz

Jul 24, 2023 Muhammad Choudhury | www.thedataschool.co.uk

During dashboard week, we explored designing viz for visually impaired people. One very useful tool that can be utilised for this are screen readers.

Generate a random date between 2 dates in Alteryx

Jul 24, 2023 Terrence Miller | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Recently during a client project I was given data for when an applicant applied for a position and when they were hired. In order to have a placeholder for the time it takes to interview, I had to generate a random date between them that makes sense.

Databases Data Lakes and Data Warehouses What is the difference

Jul 24, 2023 Afnan Foyez | www.thedataschool.co.uk

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Dashboard Week - Day 1 - Accessibility

Jul 24, 2023 George Ledger | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This is our last week of DS training and with that comes our first day of Dashboard Week. To start the day, we were taken through a 2 hour class on accessibility with data visualisations. We covered a wide variety of areas but mainly focused on Ne...

Dashboard Week - Day 1 - Accessability

Jul 24, 2023 Amelia Holland | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Todays challenge was centred around accessibility. Following a session on accessibility in the morning, we had 4 different scenarios to choose from, 3 of which focused on remaking a dashboard with a particular area to focus on, for example, encomp...

Color Consistency with Measure Switching

Jul 24, 2023 Lex Devlin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This is a tutorial for when you want to have one “chart” that swaps between different measures while maintaining a unique color for each measure.

Accessibility in Tableau

Jul 24, 2023 Tom Gould | www.thedataschool.co.uk

To kick off Dashboard Week, we had a session this morning on accessibility and incorporating these ideas into Tableau so that the dashboards we create are more accessible.

Accessibility and Screen Readers Dashboard Week Day 1

Jul 24, 2023 Shreya Arya | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today was Day 1 of Dashboard Week - our focus for today was Accessibility.

Accessibility - Keyboard-only Dashboards

Jul 24, 2023 Zak Saucede | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week is our final week of training, which means it’s Dashboard Week!

Using a Parameter Filter to Aggregate Dates in Tableau

Jul 23, 2023 Afnan Foyez | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In Tableau you can use parameter filters to aggregate dates, in this blog we will explore how.We will use the superstore data set and create a simple line chart showing sales across time.

How to find new customer acquisition in Tableau an intro to LODs

Jul 23, 2023 Toby Horne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In my opinion, LODs are one of the most important concepts I’ve learned during my first 2 months at the Data School. A Level of Detail Expression (or LOD) is a special type of calculated field that enables us to manipulate our data’s granularity, ...

Monday Music Musings No thats not James Jamerson Part 1

Jul 23, 2023 Steve Wexler | www.datarevelations.com

I think I own almost everything that Stevie Wonder has recorded and released, going back to the early 1960s. On a plane ride to Omaha in 2014, with my iPhone in shuffle mode, I stumbled across a live and somewhat obscure recording of “For Once In...

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