Dashboard Week Day 1 Chelsea FC Performance Insights

May 20, 2025 Robbin Vernooij | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The point of Dashboard Week is to get the consultants working very, very quickly through a brand new data set each day. It’s a total surprise each morning and the time has come for DS49 to apply everything they’ve learned in training.

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Dashboard Week - Day 1 CFC Performance Insights Vizathon

May 20, 2025 Amy Peacham | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Between 17th March and 14th April, Chelsea FC put a challenge out to the public to ‘create the most compelling Physical Performance interface for elite football players and their coaches’. So our challenge for Dashboard Week Day 1 was to build a r...

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Dashboard Week Day 1

May 20, 2025 Zaman Bilal Iqbal | www.thedataschool.co.uk

With training coming to a close, it’s time for our much anticipated dashboard week! For day one, I was tasked with analysing Chelsea FC’s Performance Insights, part of the CFC Performance Insights Vizathon held recently. Power BI Desktop had to be...

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Dashboard Week Day 01 Chelsea FC Player Data

May 20, 2025 Gabriel Louks-Kirwan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As part of Dashboard Week at Data School, I took on the challenge of creating a performance analysis dashboard using player recovery data. My initial plan was to compare multiple players’ recovery metrics across matches and training days in order ...

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Dashboard Week Challenge 1 -PowerBI

May 20, 2025 Victor Yuan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 1 of Dashboard Week (although we have started this a week earlier?) - how did it turn out?

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A Quick Guide to Data Vault 2.0 Schemas

May 20, 2025 Asha Daniels | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Data Vault 2.0 differs from Star or Snowflake Schemas by offering a solution designed for flexibility. Its schema is built on three main components; the Link, Hub and Satellite tables.

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5 Practical Alteryx Tools That Are Great to Know as a Beginner

May 20, 2025 Stella-Sophie Bukowski | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog post introduces you to five essential tools that are essentail for most Alteryx workflows: Input Data, Filter, Select, Formula, and Output.

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Testing a Composer Package

May 20, 2025 Justin Lyons | interworks.com

If you’ve created a Laravel app before you may be used to using tools like Pest or PHPStan. These are great for testing the functionality of the app and readability of your code. However, these both require the structure of a Laravel app to run…Th...

Data,Composer,GitHub,Testing

Parameter-Driven Colouring in Power BI

May 19, 2025 Hannah Norfolk | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hello all - it’s officially week 7 for DS50 and an interesting skill I’ve learnt is parameter-driven colouring for charts - I find it really fun to allow the user to interact this way, so lets have a look at how to do this. For those that don’t kn...

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How to create a Menu Structure in Tableau

May 19, 2025 Stefan Ladwig | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This guide explains how to create a menu structure in Tableau using buttons to navigate between dashboards.

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Lets practice using the multi-fact relationship model

May 19, 2025 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Yoshi chose to challenge us this week to try using the multi-fact relationship model, something I hadn’t used before so I was keen to have a go. I have to admit, I did ultimately find the challenge a bit tricky… I did have to look at the hint in t...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2025,BarChart,DataModelling,LineChart,Meatball,Multifact,PercentofTotal,Scatter,TableCalculations,week20

Publishing a Composer Package

May 16, 2025 Justin Lyons | interworks.com

You’ve built a composer package that works great locally and you’d like others to see how great it is. But when the run composer require they can’t find it. That’s because it only exists on your computer and we need to publish it! Fortunately, thi...

Data,Composer,Packaging

Agentic AI and Tableau Next A Look Inside the Future of Analytics

May 16, 2025 Troy Schuh | interworks.com

On the flight out to Tableau Conference this past April, I set out to get up to speed on Tableau’s newest platform, Tableau Next. While digging in, one term kept popping up: Agentic AI. At first, it felt like just another bit of AI jargon….The pos...

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What It Looks Like to Get Accepted My Journey to The Data School

May 15, 2025 Brandon Traditi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Let me take you back to March 2024 — the moment I first discovered The Data School.

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

Visualizing DSNY9s training progress

May 15, 2025 Gabriel Bryan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As a consultant-in-training at The Data School New York, I’m currently in the middle of an intensive 17-week program packed with hands-on learning, real client projects, and an ever-growing toolkit of data skills. I wanted to create something simp...

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

Tableau Quick Tip Turn off Automatic Highlighting

May 15, 2025 Eliza Hokanson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Have you ever built a viz that was practically perfect*, except for one little thing? 

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

How to build an Easy Hex Map in Tableau with Calculated Fields

May 15, 2025 Brandon Traditi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hex maps are fun, they add spice to a normal map while still providing valuable insights. A lot of online versions of hex maps involve data blending but in this article I’ll show you the cheat sheet to using calculated fields to plot a U.S Hex Map.

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

How I found my way to the Data School

May 15, 2025 Stosh Sawicz | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hello everyone! My name is Stosh, and I am one of the newest consultants here at the Data School in New York! Now that I have finally completed the application process and am now knee deep in the training phase, I wanted to share some things about...

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

Finding My Flow First Week Reflections - DS51

May 15, 2025 Claudina Mukangabo | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Just wrapped up my first week and I’m still finding my feet but it’s been a really rewarding start.

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

Building a BibTeX parser in Alteryx

May 15, 2025 Gabriel Bryan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As a trainee at The Data School, we’re constantly learning by doing — jumping into real-world data problems, even when they’re messy, unfamiliar, or just plain weird. As a personal project, I decided to revisit something I’d struggled with in the ...

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

What are the basic types of charts

May 14, 2025 Mariia Sapsai | www.thedataschool.co.uk

First step I want to know, what is a chart? 

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

Make a Control Shewhart Chart In Tableau

May 14, 2025 Louis Phipps | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When would you use a control chart?

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

Edit Aliases in Tableau

May 14, 2025 Birthe Claussen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Have you ever used Aliases in Tablau and tried to use the same twice? Happens to the best of us. 

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

Dashboard in Power BI Einblicke aus Daten gewinnen

May 14, 2025 Svetlana Brazukevich | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In meinem letzten Freitagsprojekt musste ich Dashboards in Power BI bauen und habe dabei viele interessante Einblicke in die Daten gefunden. Ich wollte diesen Prozess mit euch teilen😊

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

Basic Statistical Tests In Python

May 14, 2025 Miles Cumiskey | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Test Statistics

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

Writing Code for a Composer Package

May 14, 2025 Justin Lyons | interworks.com

We now have somewhere to put our package code and a functional Laravel app to test it in live. There are skeleton packages that act as templates like this one, but there’s a benefit to doing it manually at least once. It’s like being forced…The po...

Data,code,Composer

spillthedbt challenge 01

May 13, 2025 Lorraine Ferrusi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Welcome to Challenge One of the spillthedbt series. In this challenge, we will take the first steps in setting up and working with a dbt project. In the first challenge, you will set up a dbt project to analyse LEGO data using a provided DuckDB da...

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

Sending Email from Alteryx with Gmail in 2025

May 13, 2025 Salome Grasland | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Getting emails to send straight from an Alteryx workflow is one of those underrated little wins—it makes the whole thing feel polished and complete. But if you’re using Gmail, 2025 came with a twist: Google rolled out new security rules that broke...

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

Power BI or Tableau Whats the right tool for me

May 13, 2025 Stella-Sophie Bukowski | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Based on my experience, here’s how I would summarise the differences between the tools and help you decide which one is best for you.

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

My First Week at The Data School

May 13, 2025 Tyler McKillop | www.thedataschool.co.uk

How it went

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

Im joining The Data School. What can I expect

May 13, 2025 Freya Marijatta | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Are you a new starter at The Data School? Here’s some things you might like to know.

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

First Week - DS51

May 13, 2025 Jaden Matthias | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Excalidraw, Tableau Prep and a whole bunch of introductions. First week of The Data School done and it’s been great. Everyone here is so friendly and I’ve learnt so much. The week was packed with sessions from our cohort coach (Serena Purslow), Ro...

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

Building a Mailchimp Campaign Extractor with Python

May 13, 2025 Asha Daniels | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Recently, I needed to extract campaign data from Mailchimp for the extraction project of data engineering training. This process becomes pretty straightforward if you’re using a data integration platform such as Airbyte, I had all the tables moved...

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

Tiny Tableau Tips - Round 7

May 13, 2025 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 As a reminder, our Tiny Tableau Tips blog posts are comprised of tips shared by others on social media that we are just providing a more permanent home for.  For more information on how #tinytableautips came to be, check out Round 1. ...

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PowerBI Dax syntax shortcuts

May 12, 2025 Ted Evans | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Following 4 days of PowerBI training and lots of Dax syntax correcting, I’ve found a few different shortcuts and Dax tricks which seem to be helpful:

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

Scaffolding for a Composer Package

May 12, 2025 Justin Lyons | interworks.com

Now that we have an app to test things, we can scaffold the composer package within it. First, let’s take a little detour and look at an example of what we’re trying to achieve. When any composer package is added using composer require package/nam...

Data,Composer,Scaffolding

spillthedbt challenges the setup

May 9, 2025 Lorraine Ferrusi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

After completing the dbt Fundamentals and dbt Certified Developer learning paths, I was eager to take on projects that extended beyond the familiar Jaffle Shop and Stripe datasets. A colleague of mine created a series called Spill the dbt, which p...

Creating your own custom colour palette in Tableau

May 9, 2025 Birthe Claussen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau Desktop comes with a variety of colour palettes that have been carefully designed and curated to work well together and apply colour to data effectively. But sometimes you need to create your own colour palette, in example for a customer o...

Can you create Stars Reference lines

May 9, 2025 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Lorna provided this week’s challenge, drawing on some tips she’d picked up from Nhung Lee at #TC25. We’re building 2 charts, but for the second we need some supplementary data, and for this we need to start with some data modelling. Modelling the ...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2025,BarChart,DualAxis,FakeReferenceLines,Replace,Space,StarRating,StringFunctions,TableCalculations,Week19,WindowMax

Rounding to the nearest 10 100 or 1000 in Tableau Prep

May 8, 2025 Hannah Norfolk | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hi everyone!

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dbt at Data Council 2025 Whats New

May 8, 2025 Jack Hulbert | interworks.com

Recently, my colleagues and I attended Data Council in Oakland, California, where discussions about data infrastructure, AI integration and seminal data engineering patterns dominated the technical talks. Among the most impactful sessions was Elia...

Data,DataCouncil,dbt,newfeatures

Setup for a Composer Package

May 8, 2025 Justin Lyons | interworks.com

Setting Up the Environment Let’s build a thing! Where to start? I need an app that has my working composer project installed. That way I can test the functionality as I build it. There’s several ways to build a local development environment. I per...

Data,composerpackage,SetUp,TipsandTricks

ber meinen ersten Monat bei The Information Lab

May 7, 2025 Mariia Sapsai | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Was ich sofort sagen kann: Vergiss niemals, wo du bist und welche Ziele du hast!

Design

Relationships in Power BI verstehen und anwenden

May 7, 2025 Gabriela Scherbinek | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Relationships, oder Beziehungen, verbinden Tabellen in Power BI zu einem Datenmodell, damit man Daten aus mehreren Tabellen gemeinsam auswerten kann ohne diese in ein und dieselbe Tabelle ziehen zu müssen. Sie funktionieren wie Brücken oder Autoba...

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Python cant be located... What to do

May 7, 2025 Archie Boswell | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Let me set the scene,You’re standing in Terminal 5, suncream packed and ready to soak up the Spanish sun, when suddenly, panic hits. Where’s the snake? Somehow, you’ve lost track of your pet python, and the trip is in jeopardy.

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