Tableau Prep Project

Jul 20, 2023 Tobias Fitschen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The Data School does not mess around. Just 5 days in we got to do our first project. The task was to enhance the data set we used for our first Tableau Public dashboard (used for the first enrollment step). Enhancing sounds vague, but basically we...

Setting Alerts in Tableau Server

Jul 20, 2023 Asha Daniels | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Here at the data school, DS40 have been learning about Tableau Server. Its a collaborative platform that offers a great feature - alerts. With alerts, you can receive real-time notifications when specific conditions or thresholds are met in data.

Resolving the Google Drive Desktop Storage Capacity Glitch

Jul 20, 2023 Lex Devlin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

On the first day of my new job at The Data School NY, I dutifully installed Google Drive to keep my files backed up. The next day, I was graced with a fatal technical disaster. Despite my company-provided laptop being brand new and having next to ...

Keeping Data Fresh

Jul 20, 2023 Otto Richardson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud

How would you set up a tableau server

Jul 20, 2023 Olivier Newman | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Week 7 for DS 40 had a full day of tableau server training penciled in. After exploring the ins and outs of the system.  The final task was to build a tableau server set up for an imaginary company. Which contained a marketing sales and Customer r...

How to edit permissions in Tableau Server

Jul 20, 2023 Toby Horne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau Server is a platform which allows us to share and edit workbooks, dashboards, and storyboards created in Tableau with selected users. One crucial aspect of managing a Tableau Server in any organisation is to effectively alter the permissio...

How Tableau Server Empowers Businesses

Jul 20, 2023 Francisco Rei | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week I learned more about Tableau Server. As this is a business orientated platform, I decided to write about the benefits of tableau server for businesses.

Our First Client project

Jul 19, 2023 Sakif Chowdhury | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Last week, DSNY4 finally had the chance to experience what it is like to work on a project with clients. Because we are still in training, our first client project was an internal one. This meant that one of our coaches acted as the client and gav...

Legend of the Line

Jul 19, 2023 Vivian Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Yes, the title of today’s blog was inspired by a song from one of the best movies ever (Cheetah Girls); no, I am not taking any questions on this subject at this time. Anyway, today, I’m going to be walking you through how to add a legend/labels t...

Keep it dynamic use Parameters

Jul 19, 2023 Michael Bellamy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In Tableau Desktop, parameters are dynamic input controls that allow users to interact with their data visualizations. Parameters enable users to modify certain aspects of a visualization, such as filters, calculations, or reference lines, without...

How to recreate images using data points in Tableau

Jul 19, 2023 Carlos Pacheco | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Have you ever seen a dashboard with an image or logo and upon further inspection noticed that it was actually composed of hundreds of data points? Ever wondered how the heck someone has built that? Well in about 5 minutes you’ll discover that it’s...

How to create an image using data points in Tableau

Jul 19, 2023 Carlos Pacheco | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Have you ever seen a dashboard with an image or logo and upon further inspection noticed that it was actually composed of hundreds of data points? Ever wondered how the heck someone has built that? Well in about 5 minutes you’ll discover that it’s...

Adding Background Images to a Tableau Dashboard

Jul 19, 2023 Matthias Albert | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Have you ever played around with the idea of pepping up your dashboard with a nice looking image, but then struggled to make it look good and ultimately threw in the towel on the whole concept? No? Well anyway, now that you’re here you’ll hopefull...

Overcoming Data Science Challenges in Biosensor Analytics

Jul 19, 2023 Bálint Kovács | medium.com

The integration of technology and healthcare continues to revolutionize the way we monitor and promote human well-being. The recent pandemic provided both a rare and alarming glimpse at the limits of our healthcare systems and a boost to solutions...

ai,healthcare,machine-learning,data-science,wearable-technology

Data Dashboard Design Best Practices

Jul 19, 2023 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Effective data dashboard design is an art. It requires meticulous attention to detail. It includes visualizing the right data, displaying the appropriate level of granularity, designing an efficient layout, and making a number of minute design dec...

Data,Design,TableauDashboards

UNLIMITED Charts Metrics and Number Formats in Tableau with Dynamic Zone...

Jul 18, 2023 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

Dynamic zone visibility opens up so many use cases. Previously, I had to do some number formatting tricks to show two different formats on one chart.But with DZV, I can create an unlimited number of combinations of charts, metrics, and number form...

chart,dimension,dynamic,dynamiczonevisibility,howto,measure,parameter,swap,tableau

World Tile Map

Jul 18, 2023 Lex Devlin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tile maps are absolutely wonderful. They can be helpful for alleviating the primary weakness of a filled map, namely that each geographic area’s size can either overemphasize or deemphasize the values you’re showing that pertain to it. A hex map e...

Tableau How to apply Extract Filters

Jul 18, 2023 Nitesh Shrestha | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Extract filters are the highest level of filters in Tableau’s order of operations. They can only be used with extract connections, not with live connections. An extract connection allows you to import a snapshot or specific records of data from yo...

LODs

Jul 18, 2023 Afnan Foyez | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What Are LODs?

Custom Number Formatting in Tableau

Jul 18, 2023 Matthias Albert | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Any number in your Tableau dashboard can and most likely should be formatted. Just browsing around Tableau Public at the time of writing this blog, I stumbled across this dashboard, that has been trending right now:

A No-Nonsense Approach to Large Language Models for the Enterprise

Jul 18, 2023 Balázs Zempléni | medium.com

#1: Crucial Context, Experiments and Early FindingsGenerative AI seems to be taking over the world, and many executives and the enterprises they steward have a hard time keeping up and understanding where to place their attention. Transformers, di...

data-science,bard-ai,chatgpt,large-language-models,artificial-intelligence

Top N Slider using Parameters

Jul 17, 2023 Asha Daniels | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If you’ve ever wanted to visualize the top performers or highest sales, but give the user control over N, this is the perfect technique for you.

Dynamic Zoning Parameters

Jul 17, 2023 Asha Daniels | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Dynamic zoning parameters allow you to create dynamic, interactive visualizations based on specific zones, giving the user the ability to analyse data in a more targeted way.

5 Ways to Share Tableau Content Publicly

Jul 17, 2023 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

There are severalsituations where you might need to share a Tableau visualization with thepublic. From a personal standpoint, you might want to share as part of acommunity project such as MakeoverMonday. Or you might want to share workbooks as par...

How-To,Tableau,TableauServerOnline

My Way To Data Analysis Tableau Prep - 1st Week at DSDE -

Jul 16, 2023 Ali Fawwaz | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In the first week at the data school, I got introduced to Tableau Prep for the first time and I learned the fundemental functions of this great tool. However,  I learned that Tableau has several products not only Tableau Desktop and Prep and I am ...

Advanced,DataPrep,TipsTricks

Monday Music Musings Imelda May and Inside Out

Jul 16, 2023 Steve Wexler | www.datarevelations.com

Welcome to another journey into somewhat obscure, but terrific music performances. There won’t be any data viz stuff here, just some good music. I’m not yet finished with Jeff Beck’s Rock and Roll Party Honoring Les Paul, as I want to talk more ab...

MusicMusings,SportsandEntertainment,ImeldaMay,JeffBeck,LesPaul,music

Can you hide show legends

Jul 14, 2023 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Sean chose to revisit the first challenge he participated in as part of retro-month at WOW HQ. Since the original challenge in 2018, there have been a significant number of developments to the product which makes it simpler to fulfil the requireme...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2023,Aliases,BANs,deselectmarks,DynamicAxisTitles,DynamicZoneVisibility,ParameterActions,SheetSwapping,SwapDimensions,SwapMeasures,Week28

Makeover Monday - July 10th 2023

Jul 13, 2023 Sakif Chowdhury | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As a data schooler we are tasked to complete Makeover Monday challenges in one hour. Makeover Monday is a weekly challenge to improve a Tableau dashboard from a given dataset. This week we took a look at the Henley Global Passport Index which rank...

Data,TableCalculations,TableauCalculations

How to Connect with Alteryx Gallery MongoDB

Jul 13, 2023 Ben Mangel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A notable function of the Alteryx server is the ability to connect to MongoDB databases, espeacially the MongoDB which contains the data about the Alteryx Gallery. While Ben Moss has excellently demonstrated how to access MongoDB of the Alteryx Se...

Data,Curator,Tableau,ThoughtSpot,UCDD

A Vacation Visualization

Jul 13, 2023 Elaine Yuan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Ever since my training at the Data School, I have been empowered to visualize data in my everyday life. On my week-long birthday trip last month, I thought about how I would represent my vacation

InterWorks Blog Roundup June 2023

Jul 13, 2023 Mark Cordeiro | interworks.com

Variety was the name of the game in June, with the vast majority of our blogs not falling into one particular bucket. From highlights of InterWorkers to event recaps to Curator releases, we had a lot on our plate this last month of the first…The p...

Data,Curator,Tableau,ThoughtSpot,UCDD

Alumni Spotlight Ellie Slater

Jul 12, 2023 Mel Niere | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Learn more about Ellie’s experience, from the time she applied to The Data School, to her career as a Tableau Enablement Manager at John Lewis Partnership. Ellie was part of Cohort 11 of The Data School London, which took place from October 2018 t...

Data,TableCalculations,TableauCalculations

A first impression of Tableau Prep

Jul 12, 2023 Tobias Fitschen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hello everyone, I am Tobias and part of the new Data School Germany cohort (DSDE 5). First week of training is in the books. And after two days of an information storm the dust has finally settled a bit and we got the opportunity to get our hands ...

Data,TableCalculations,TableauCalculations

How to Calculate Running Headcount in Tableau with Start and End Date Fi...

Jul 12, 2023 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Do you want to use Tableau to look at running headcount over time? For example, you work with employee level data which has Start Dates and End Dates and you’d like to be able to see how the total active headcount at the company has changed over t...

Data,TableCalculations,TableauCalculations

New Course Visualizing Data in Tableau 101

Jul 12, 2023 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

Kevin and I loveto teach people how to use Tableau. We’ve been doing it via blogs,presentations, Tableau Community Forums, and conversations on social media formany years. But most of that content has been bite-sized. When we joined Moxy Analytics...

HireUs,How-To,Tableau,Training

Mastering Tableau The Power of Context Filters

Jul 11, 2023 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

What are Context Filters?A context filter in Tableau is a powerful feature that allows you to isolate a specific subset of data and create a temporary data subset When you apply a context filter to your visualization, Tableau first applies the con...

calculations,contextfilter,filtering,filters,howto,orderofoperations,performance,tableau

MakeoverMonday 2023 Week 28 - Global Passport Rankings

Jul 11, 2023 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

This week’s data set only contained one measure, two years, and country names. This meant that I had to focus on charts that help visualize comparisons.I created:Grouped bar chartBar in bar chartGrouped bar chart with a gantt bar for the differenc...

barchart,barinbar,barbell,butterflychart,diverging,gantt,grouped,histogram,howto,jitteredchart,MakeoverMonday,scatterplot,slopegraph,tableau,trellischart

Using CTEs in Tableau

Jul 11, 2023 Tom Gould | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Common Table Expressions (CTEs) are used often when working with SQL databases. However, when connecting to a Microsoft SQL server in Tableau to access data CTEs are unusable when writing Custom SQL Queries. The trick is to enter the CTE as and In...

Data,TableCalculations,TableauCalculations

How to Make and Interactive Dashboard with Tableau Embedding API v3

Jul 11, 2023 Jesus Esquivel Roman | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Learn how to embed interactive Tableau dashboards that captivate your audience. Discover the step-by-step process and take your data-driven insights to the next level.

Data,TableCalculations,TableauCalculations

How to Embed a Tableau Dashboard in a website with Tableau Embedding API

Jul 11, 2023 Jesus Esquivel Roman | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Discover how to seamlessly integrate Tableau dashboards into your website using the powerful Tableau Embedding API. Empower users with interactive data analysis, customization, and real-time updates. Enhance your website with captivating visualiza...

Data,TableCalculations,TableauCalculations

Dummy Highlights

Jul 11, 2023 Lydia Wren | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Fed up of your non-selected areas being greyed out on your dashboards? ME TOO

Data,TableCalculations,TableauCalculations

Aggregation in Tableau Prep Builder - Solving Multiple Issues in One Step

Jul 11, 2023 Matthias Albert | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau Prep Builder is Tableau’s answer to any task related to preparation. Data preparation is covered early on in your Data School journey. This blog post provides a quick exemplary insight into Tableau Prep Builder, a tool that’s widely used t...

Data,TableCalculations,TableauCalculations

What are the Different Types of Joins

Jul 10, 2023 Jessica Kwan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When it comes to Alteryx, there are certain types of joins that we need to keep in mind: Inner Join, Left Outer Join, Right Outer Join, Full Outer Join, Left Only (or Left Unjoined), and Right Only (or Right Unjoined). These terms may seem familia...

Tips and Resources to help pass the Power BI Certification

Jul 10, 2023 Kinley Ly | www.thedataschool.co.uk

TL:DR

Mein Weg zur Datenanalyse Warum Tableau Pre Data School-

Jul 10, 2023 Ali Fawwaz | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Auf dem Lehrplan stand eine Woche für Tableau Desktop und schon nach zwei Tagen verliebte ich mich in Tableau.Meine Frage war: Warum sollte Tableau nicht im Mittelpunkt der Datenanalyse stehen?