Profitable Location Data Monetization3 Lessons from a Telco Company

Jun 19, 2023 Zsolt Palmai | medium.com

Profitable Location Data Monetization — 3 Lessons from a Telco CompanyCompanies in many industries are hoarding piles of cash and don’t know it. Case in point: a telecommunications giant was sitting on massive amounts of anonymized location data t...

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What Makes a Data Visualization Good

Jun 16, 2023 Lex Devlin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In the vast world of data visualization possibilities it is only natural to wonder what exactly makes a visualization “good.” Such a question mirrors the perennial philosophical matters of life and living. While competitions like Tableau’s Iron Vi...

Data,Dashboarding,finance,TipsandTricks

Running Sums In Tableau Prep

Jun 16, 2023 Lydia Wren | www.thedataschool.co.uk

How do you do running calculations in Tableau Prep ?!?!?!?!

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How to Embrace Good Enough in Tableau Personal Projects

Jun 16, 2023 Elaine Yuan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hey, are you a perfectionist? I know I am and it can be a problem sometimes.

Data,Dashboarding,finance,TipsandTricks

Difference between 2023-06-16TRUNC and 2023-06-16PART in Tableau

Jun 16, 2023 George Ledger | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The inspiration from this post came from when I made a 2023-06-16TRUNC joke in our Stats 101 lesson and was told that it should have been a 2023-06-16PART joke instead. I thought I understood the difference however, shortly found out I did not kno...

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Data Ink Ratio Why it matters

Jun 16, 2023 Nitesh Shrestha | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Have you ever come across a data visualization that was not able to effectively convey its message to you? One common reason for such shortcomings is a low data-ink ratio.

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Building a radial heatmap in Tableau

Jun 16, 2023 Adrien Sourdille | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For a complete video tutorial, I highly recommend Will Sutton’s free tutorial on building radial heatmaps in Tableau.

Data,Dashboarding,finance,TipsandTricks

Add a transparent color to your palette

Jun 16, 2023 Adrien Sourdille | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As I was building a viz, I had null values in a dimension that I did not want to exclude. When I put that same dimension on the colour shelf however, I was frustrated to see these null values coloured, and I thought to myself: “wouldn’t it be perf...

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5 Tips for Financial Dashboarding

Jun 16, 2023 Chris Chang | interworks.com

Back in my days working in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), my job was rooted in data storytelling. I developed forecasts, ad hoc analyses, models and dashboards to help drive and empower decisions with data. Financial dashboarding, lik...

Data,Dashboarding,finance,TipsandTricks

Improving Dashboard Design Through the Gestalt Principle

Jun 15, 2023 Otto Richardson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today, we learned about the Gestalt Principle, which focuses on how our brains naturally organize visual information. When I wanted to improve the design of my dashboards, I sought inspiration from  Ellen Blackburn’s Vizzes. I was particularly imp...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2023,deselectmarks,DynamicZoneVisibility,filteractions,KPIs,Mobile,ParameterActions,PhoneLayout,Week24

How to swap sheets on a dashboard using parameters

Jun 15, 2023 Afnan Foyez | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For this example we will create two different sheets, a map and a bar chart.

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Cleaning Data with Tableau Prep

Jun 15, 2023 Sakif Chowdhury | www.thedataschool.co.uk

During the first week of DSNY4 we began learning about data preparation with Tableau prep. This was a very intriguing topic for me because, for my first application viz, I initially wanted to work with climate change data. This data set needed som...

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Can you build a mobile KPI app

Jun 15, 2023 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

For week 24 of #WOW2023, Kyle set this challenge involving dynamic zone visibility to build a mobile friendly KPI visual. The charts being displayed are relatively simple, and use techniques applied several times in other challenges. Let’s tackle ...

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SIMPLE Map Drill Down in Tableau with Dynamic Zone Visibility

Jun 14, 2023 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

Creating a drill-down map in Tableau used to be more challenging than it needed to be. But now, with the dynamic zone visibility, we can create a map drill down in just a couple of simple steps.By signing up for my newsletter you get:Early access ...

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Communicating with Data The Power of Data Visualisation

Jun 14, 2023 Francisco Rei | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Start of second week - In this blog I explore the importance of data visualisation in the modern world and best practices to communicate this data.

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Calculate State and Country Abbreviations in Tableau

Jun 14, 2023 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Do you ever have a data set with US State names and it would be really handy to save some space in your visualizations by displaying state abbreviations instead of full state names? Or how about a situation where you want to display country abbrev...

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PYD121 Tableau Conference 2023 Recap with Mat Hughes Keith Dykstra

Jun 14, 2023 InterWorks | interworks.com

InterWorks’ Content Manager Garrett Sauls sat down with Solutions Architecture Director, Americas, Mat Hughes and Analytics Lead Keith Dykstra to take stock of the announcements made at TC23 and what direction we see the data space going.  The pos...

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How to Start Learning Tableau Prep

Jun 14, 2023 Zack Cordeiro | interworks.com

Learning a new tool can be daunting, especially if you are starting from square one with little to no experience. That’s why I’ve outlined a small list of free learning resources and exercises for a beginner with no experience to transition into a...

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Using LODs to calculate percent of total.

Jun 13, 2023 Terrence Miller | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If you’re looking at this blog you’re probably like me and love to use interactive filters in your dashboards.

Shape - up your Dashboard Using Shapes for Image Creation in Tableau

Jun 13, 2023 Asha Daniels | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau’s a pretty amazing tool but frustratingly, it gives little control to changing the position of shapes. Here, I explain how to create an image using shapes.

Reflections on Tableau Prep - A Way to Streamline Data Preparation

Jun 13, 2023 Michael Bellamy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Having been recently introduced to Tableau Prep, I have been impressed with the ease at which you can clean, transform, and structure raw data. As we are all aware data collection is at an all-time high as this is needed to fuel today’s data-drive...

My 1st MakeoverMonday

Jun 13, 2023 Tabitha Diaz | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If you’ve spent time scrolling through Tableau you might have stumbled upon the #MakeoverMonday hashtag, but what is it?

How to add GIFs in your Tableau Server project folder

Jun 13, 2023 Afnan Foyez | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Step 1: First find a gif that you like.We will use this gif as our example:

Explaining Granularity

Jun 13, 2023 Reshika Chilakapati | www.thedataschool.co.uk

After completing my Learn What The Data School Learns session, I came to the realization that I am very bad at explaining what granularity means. Typically because I keep getting Level of Detail mixed up with Granularity. So for the purpose of my ...

Communicating with Data The Power of Data Visualisation

Jun 13, 2023 Francisco Rei | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Start of second week - In this blog I explore the importance of data visualisation in the modern world and best practices to communicate this data.

After Work at TIL

Jun 13, 2023 Lydia Wren | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Watling Street after hours

Likert Scale Questions the Zvinca Way

Jun 13, 2023 Steve Wexler | www.datarevelations.com

Overview Although I was on vacation in April of 2023, I did see this twitter post. Daniel Zvinca’s response knocked my socks off. Here’s the post from Cole Knaflic. And here was Daniel’s response. “Goodness, yes” I thought. This addresses the shor...

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MakeoverMonday 2023 Week 24 - Cereal and the Green Revolution Yields vs....

Jun 12, 2023 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

At the global level, how has crop production changed over the last fifty years? In this Watch Me Viz live stream, I analyzed how the yield and land use of producing cereal has changed over the last 50 years.I really liked the original visualizatio...

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Part 2 Career Transition Business Consultant in a Small Market to Data C...

Jun 12, 2023 Michael Bellamy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Navigating the Path: Joining The Data School

Part 1 Career Transition Business Consultant in a Small Market to Data C...

Jun 12, 2023 Michael Bellamy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Embracing the Unknown: Transitioning from a Small Market to a Big City

Hexbin Maps Oh Rats Workout Wednesday WoW 2022 Challenge 16

Jun 12, 2023 Jessica Kwan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

After making a hexbin map last Friday for the last day of Dashboard Week, I’ve been itching to make another one. What better way to learn how to better make a hexbin map than by attempting a Workout Wednesday?

Data,filters,Intro,liveboards,ThoughtSpot

Introducing Pilula aka Dr. Mario Charts in Tableau

Jun 12, 2023 Rafael Simancas | playfairdata.com

At Playfair Data, our designers, data specialists, and Tableau engineers team up for every client consulting project to curate practical…The post Introducing Pilula (aka Dr. Mario) Charts in Tableau appeared first on Playfair Data.

Advanced,ChartTypes,DataPrep,Storytelling

ThoughtSpot 101 5 Tips for Creating Really Good Liveboards

Jun 12, 2023 Jack Hulbert | interworks.com

In our last blog, we gave you some tips on how to create worksheets that will bring your users a delightful search analytics experience, but what if you want to build some pre-built analyses for users needing to quickly consume visual data that ca...

Data,filters,Intro,liveboards,ThoughtSpot

From Ancient Charts to Interactive Dashboards Exploring the Journey of D...

Jun 11, 2023 Afnan Foyez | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Before the world of data visualization, it was commonplace for information to be stored and analyzed solely through tables and columns; lacking the visual representations that provide a more intuitive understanding of data.

The Tableau Community

Jun 10, 2023 Sabrina Vazquez | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If my first week at the Data School New York taught me anything, it is the magnitude of the Tableau Community.

synapse,data-warehouse,azure,sql,data-engineering

What did it take to get into DS40

Jun 9, 2023 Lorna Brown | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Time flies when you’re having fun. We are already at the end of DS40’s first week. Here are their initial application and final visualisations that got them into DS40.

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Week 1 Presentation Joins in Tableau Prep

Jun 9, 2023 Olivier Newman | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As their first week draw to a close DS40 arrived in on Friday morning to be greeted with their first challenge, give a presentation to yourself one week ago explaining Joins. Often when we encounter data it is not all in the same file. There are t...

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Tableau Prep - The Clean Step

Jun 9, 2023 Sanjeev Dosanjh | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Why do we want to clean our data?

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Tableau Prep - Lets make sense of pivoting

Jun 9, 2023 Francisco Rei | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week we started using tableau Prep. This post looks at how we can use pivoting in this software.

synapse,data-warehouse,azure,sql,data-engineering

Tableau Prep Fundamentals The Clean Step

Jun 9, 2023 Toby Horne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today is the final day of my first week at the Data School. The key takeaway from these first days of learning is to clean your data before attempting to create any form of data visualisation.

synapse,data-warehouse,azure,sql,data-engineering

Resources for Data Schoolers

Jun 9, 2023 Lex Devlin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Greetings fellow data schooler. Perhaps you have forgotten how to file an expense report? Or maybe you’re wondering where all of The Information Lab’s learning resources are consolidated? Not to worry, friend, I have compiled a list of every platf...

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Prepping Data

Jun 9, 2023 Lydia Wren | www.thedataschool.co.uk

DS40 get stuck in

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Pivoting - Columns to rows

Jun 9, 2023 Nadia Holloway | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Out of the many awesome things you can do in Tableau Prep, pivoting is definitely up there as one of the most useful. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a bit difficult to wrap your head around initially (is it columns to rows or rows to columns?), but once...

synapse,data-warehouse,azure,sql,data-engineering

Day 5 at the Data School A Presentation on Aggregation

Jun 9, 2023 Otto Richardson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today at 1pm DS40 are doing our first presentations on what we have learnt this week. In my pair we are presenting on using aggregation steps in tableau prep.

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Aggregations in Tableau Prep.

Jun 9, 2023 Asha Daniels | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I explain how to perform aggregations on a dataset using Tableau Prep.

synapse,data-warehouse,azure,sql,data-engineering