5 Key Learning Experiences That Helped Me Get Selected in The Data School

Jun 9, 2023 Nitesh Shrestha | www.thedataschool.co.uk

“Hey, Nitesh! We reviewed your application and your interview with us was great. Based on your performance and application viz our team has decided to offer you the role at The Data School.” This is the most exciting moment that has ever happened ...

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Avoid These 3 Mistakes When Working with a Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool

Jun 9, 2023 Marton Meszaros | medium.com

Photo by Eugenio Mazzone on UnsplashAs we showed in our recent cloud data warehouse benchmark, the Synapse dedicated SQL pool is one of the most powerful and cost-effective cloud warehousing solutions on the market, but getting optimal performance...

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User-Centered Dashboard Development Evolve

Jun 9, 2023 Kendra Allenspach | interworks.com

If you’re new to User-Centered Dashboard Development (UCDD), please check out the earlier posts in this series to get acclimated, found at the bottom of this post, then come back here!   We have finally made it to our final phase of the UCDD Frame...

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Day 3 at the Data School Joining and Unionizing in Tableau Prep

Jun 8, 2023 Otto Richardson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

On Day 3 of the data school, we delved into Tableau Prep and discovered the distinctions between joining and unionizing data.

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Day 1 at The Data School

Jun 8, 2023 Nadia Holloway | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As I complete my fourth day at the Data School, I reflect back on myself a month ago; elated to have been offered my first ever big girl job and curious (maybe a little nervous too) about my up and coming first day. So if you are in that position ...

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Applying to The Data School

Jun 8, 2023 Tabitha Diaz | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Before applying to The Data School, I didn’t like Tableau.

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How to Run and Interpret the Tableau Workbook Optimizer

Jun 8, 2023 Megan Spengler | playfairdata.com

Imagine you’ve just spent days, weeks, or maybe months creating the perfect dashboard. It has an eye-catching design, cutting-edge UX,…The post How to Run and Interpret the Tableau Workbook Optimizer appeared first on Playfair Data.

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Can you compare state sales Part 2

Jun 8, 2023 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

This week’s #WOW challenge is an extension of this challenge which I blogged about here. The premise is to mimic a real world scenario – a dashboard has been built and used, but now, a few months after use, additional functionality is required. I ...

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Switching Data Sources in Tableau and PBI

Jun 7, 2023 abiramm.thavajothy | www.theinformationlab.co.uk

Since beginning my PBI journey, I’ve been trying to find similarities and differences between it and Tableau to aid my learning. Here we’ll look at switching data sources in both Tableau and PBI. There are two methods of switching data sources in ...

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Journey to the data school.

Jun 7, 2023 Olivier Newman | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I was introduced to Tableau in my previous sales role. And quickly realized the potential that it held I quickly got on the phone to the Graduate Recruitment Bureau (well worth a chat), who outlined the application process and sold the role to me ...

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How to create an Info Button for your dashboard

Jun 7, 2023 Zoe Reed | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Learn how to create a handy ‘Info Button’ for any dashboard to add context or extra information without compromising design or using up valuable space.

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First Impressions of the Data School.

Jun 7, 2023 Asha Daniels | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I delve into my prior expectations of the Data School and compare it to the reality as of day 3 as a Data School consultant.

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Dashboard Week Day 4 Would You Make It Into DSNY 4

Jun 7, 2023 Connie Koo | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For the final assignment of dashboard week, we were tasked with creating a visualization using the same dataset that the applicants for DSNY 4 had used for their application. The dataset is on the topic of gift traveling filings, which can be defi...

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2nd Day - Understanding the modern analytics architecture

Jun 7, 2023 Francisco Rei | www.thedataschool.co.uk

After a great first day of introductions, on the second day we delve into modern data architecture. This blog post aims to solidify my understandings

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How and Why to Use Diverging Unit Charts in Tableau

Jun 7, 2023 Dan Bunker | playfairdata.com

A diverging unit chart acts in the same fashion as a normal unit chart but adds another layer of insight…The post How and Why to Use Diverging Unit Charts in Tableau appeared first on Playfair Data.

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How to Filter Multiple Date Fields at Once in Tableau

Jun 7, 2023 Ollie Linley | onenumber.biz

Does your data set have multiple date fields? For instance, maybe you have both an “Order Date” and a “Delivery Date”. Or maybe you have both a “Hire Date” and a “Termination Date”.

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What Are Tableau GPT and Tableau Pulse

Jun 7, 2023 Zack Cordeiro | interworks.com

I think it is fair to say that most of us are familiar with Chat GPT, a revolutionary Large Language Model from Open AI that is revolutionizing the way we work and interact with AI. Tableau recently announced at TC 2023 that they are working…The p...

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Mastering TABLEAU Dashboards from Scratch

Jun 6, 2023 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

This comprehensive video will help you create business dashboards that are more actionable and meaningful and that your users will find easy to use at first glance. You’ll be on your way to being a dashboarding expert!You’ll learn:Building basic c...

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Making a Secondary Filter Dependent on a Primary Filter in Tableau

Jun 6, 2023 Adrien Sourdille | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Here is a quick blog explaining why and how you might make a secondary filter dependent on a primary filter.

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Day 2

Jun 6, 2023 Lydia Wren | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 1 at the Data School involved a fair amount of admin and introductions so let’s forget about that.

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Dashboard week 4

Jun 6, 2023 Hang Chen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Dashboard Week Day 4 marks the final day of this week. The data we have been given is the same dataset used for Round 2 of the application process. Our task is to find as many insights as possible within the given time frame. The dataset records i...

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Using VMwares Avi for Horizon Load Balancing

Jun 6, 2023 Lindsey Saunders | interworks.com

If your organization already utilizes VMware’s vSphere and you have a need for load balancing in your infrastructure, you’re in luck. VMware incorporated Avi Networks’ load balancing software into their NSX solution. Formally called NSX Advanced L...

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Password Security The Dos The Donts and the Please Just Stops

Jun 6, 2023 Warren Sinor | interworks.com

The inspiration for this blog was my seething hatred for overly complex password requirements and a PowerBI report I created to show the math to see if it would help fill my never-ending pit of rage. After discussing the logistics of converting th...

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Devs on Stage at TC23

Jun 6, 2023 Zack Cordeiro | interworks.com

Devs on stage was such a joy to watch this year at Tableau Conference 2023. For those of you unfamiliar with Devs on Stage, this keynote offers an opportunity to hear about exciting innovations from the developers of Tableau themselves. You can wa...

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What did it take to get into DSNY4

Jun 5, 2023 Mel Niere | www.thedataschool.co.uk

We are thrilled to present Cohort 4 of The Data School New York! This exceptional team has truly amazed us with their exceptional data analysis abilities. They showcased their talents by delving into diverse datasets.

Automatic Default Chart Granularity Guest Post from Kasia Gasiewska-Holc

Jun 5, 2023 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 This is a guest blog post is from our regular contributor, Kasia Gasiewska-Holc. Based in Poland, Kasia works remotely as a Senior BI Analyst at Ecovadis, a data analytics company based in Warsaw. She is also a Tableau Public Ambassad...

How-To

The Most Important Skill For A Consultant

Jun 2, 2023 Karina Chan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If you have read my dashboard week blogs, you would have seen this messy note already. This is from my day 3 of dashboard week. For those who don’t know, dashboard is the final week of our four months training. In this week, we are tasked to make ...

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Plan A Dashboard With Me

Jun 2, 2023 Karina Chan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Data Creation:

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How To Match A Shape With A Combination Of Dimensions In Tableau

Jun 2, 2023 Karina Chan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For the final day of my dashboard week, I made a dashboard where users can pick from a selection of appearance features, and a boy icon on the dashboard will change to fit their selections. It is quite tricky to match shape files to rows in Tablea...

Data,baseball,Dashboard,Highlight,InterWorkers,MVP

Final Day of Training - Boyband Dashboard

Jun 2, 2023 Zoe Reed | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For our last day of dashboard week and final day of training, we were tasked with creating a dashboard inspired by (source….) based on boy band data (source…).

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Final Day of Dashboard Week

Jun 2, 2023 Tanbir Jalil | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The final day of dashboard week is finally upon DS38 and today’s data set was about boy bands over the years. The data set comes from Pudding, and was hosted on github: data/boys.csv at master · the-pudding/data · GitHub

Data,baseball,Dashboard,Highlight,InterWorkers,MVP

Dashboard Week Review

Jun 2, 2023 Edward Hayter | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I thought I would write a final training blog collating my Dashboard Week efforts into a final dashboard - giving them a rating, things I liked about them and things to improve.

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Dashboard Week Finale Boybands

Jun 2, 2023 Edward Hayter | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The challenge today was fairly simple make a dashboard using the data from the pudding boyband database, the catch was that we had to have it finished and published by 1pm in time to watch DS39’s Client Presentation (4 hours if you worked through ...

Data,baseball,Dashboard,Highlight,InterWorkers,MVP

Dashboard Week Day 4 - Would you make it into DSNY4

Jun 2, 2023 Nayeli Jaime | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For the final day of dashboard week we were tasked with reapplying to the Data School by using the same dataset the new incoming cohort used during their final interview. The dataset being used is Gift Travel Filings.

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Dashboard Week Day 4 Red vs. Blue

Jun 2, 2023 Vivian Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Last day of Dashboard Week! Today, we were assigned the same dataset the incoming DSNY4 cohort analyzed for their final application viz: gift travel filings! I’d had the title in my mind for a while (Red vs. Blue) and was eager to get started, ana...

Data,baseball,Dashboard,Highlight,InterWorkers,MVP

Dashboard Week Day 4 Gift Travels as Documented by Congress and Staff

Jun 2, 2023 Jessica Kwan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Before we get started, I want to note that this will be my last dahboard while in training. DSNY 3 has done it! We’re graduating today.

Data,baseball,Dashboard,Highlight,InterWorkers,MVP

Dashboard Week Day 4 Boys Band Dashboard

Jun 2, 2023 Adrien Sourdille | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today, we were tasked with a simple challenge: making a dashboard using information from the pudding boyband database. The only caveat was that we only had 3 hours to do it.

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Dashboard Week Day 4 Boybands

Jun 2, 2023 Karina Chan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today task is to use the internet boyband data base to build a dashboard. The complete instruction can be found here: https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/robbin-vernooij/ds38-dashboard-week-day-4-boy-bands/.

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Dashboard Week Day 4 Boy Bands

Jun 2, 2023 Habeeb Gayle | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For the final day of dashboard week, we were given data for different boy bands over the years and were tasked with craeting a dashboard. There were two data sets: about the band and about the members in the band. These could be related to each ot...

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Dashboard Week Day 4 Boy Band Data Base

Jun 2, 2023 Trea McElhone | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For our final day of dashboard week we were tasked with creating a dashboard using the Internet Boy Band Data Base, with their data from here.

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Dashboard Week Day 4 Boy Band Data

Jun 2, 2023 Ross Killington | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For day 5 of dashboard we had only 3 hours so we were given a pretty straight forward task with a lot of creative freedom. We were given data for Boy Bands and their members over the last 40 years with details such as their chart positions, clothi...

Data,baseball,Dashboard,Highlight,InterWorkers,MVP

Dashboard Week Day 3 - Webscraping Bundesliga

Jun 2, 2023 Jessica Kwan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For the 3rd day of Dashboard Week, we were tasked to web scrape the Bundesliga website for team stats and create an analysis.

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Dashboard Week Day 3 Bundesliga

Jun 2, 2023 Connie Koo | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For the third day of dashboard work, we were tasked with web-scrapping the Bundesliga League’s website. 1. Bundesliga is a professional association league in Germany with a football competition that allows 18 teams to compete with teams from 2. Bu...

Data,baseball,Dashboard,Highlight,InterWorkers,MVP

DSNY3 Dashboard Week Day 3 Would you make it into DSNY4

Jun 2, 2023 Valerija Kirjackaja | www.thedataschool.co.uk

On your final day of Dashboard Week (which is also your final day of training!) we want you to use the dataset DSNY4 were given for their final application: Gift Travel Filings. We saw some interesting findings from our finalists in the interviews...

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DS38 Dashboard Week Day 4 Boy Bands

Jun 2, 2023 Robbin Vernooij | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The internet boy bands database, an Andy Kriebel Special. Dashboard week day 4

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