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Who are the LOTR cat fans in New Zealand?

Mar 28, 2023 Boglarka Lipka | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Some thoughts on our first day in Dashboarding Week. Our job was to work with cat tracking data and create a dashboard. We had GPS and “demographic” data about cats’ whereabouts, routes, gender, age, etc. in the US, UK and New Zealand. I chose to ...

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Documenting your Alteryx Workflows

Mar 28, 2023 Serena Purslow | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog I discuss key reasons why to document your Alteryx workflow, and some useful suggestions on how to document it.

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Dashboard week day Two.

Mar 28, 2023 Anita Longa | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today, our cohort was tasked with dataset coming from Cat Tracker Website. We were given freedom in regards to of type of dashboard we wanted to design, as well as the scope.

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Dashboard week day 2 - cat tracker

Mar 28, 2023 Stanley Chan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today is the day 2 of the dashboard week. Today my teammate and me need to visualize a dataset about the cat movement tracker.

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Dashboardweek Tag 1

Mar 28, 2023 Jan Kaiser | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Die letzte Woche unserer Ausbildungsphase hat begonnen, und wie bei jedem Jahrgang vor uns, gibt es auch dieses Jahr zum Abschluss eine Dashboardweek. Jeden Tag bekommen wir eine Aufgabe, die wir lösen und am selben Tag präsentieren. Die Aufgabe f...

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Dashboard week Day 2 - An uphill struggle

Mar 28, 2023 Jack Arnaud | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today I had an exceptionally humbling day. We were presented with the conspicuously simple challenge of visualizing data from an international study of cats (https://cattracker.org/).

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Dashboard Week - Day 2 (The Cat Tracker)

Mar 28, 2023 Sherina Mahtani | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today my heart was racing so fast mainly because my time management skills were horrendous. Couldn’t make a decision about anything and was going down many many ‘cat’ holes today.

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Dashboard Week Day 2: Cats

Mar 28, 2023 Curtis Paterson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For day two of dashboard week we were given several datasets looking at cat behavior and movement across four different countries. Our project brief had plenty of freedom within it, asking for an analysis or infographic of our choice.

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Dashboard Week Day 2: Cat Tracker

Mar 28, 2023 Elena Raluca Mazareanu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week is the final week of our training and this also means it’s Dashboard Week (some people also call it ‘Hell Week’). I can’t believe it’s almost been four months since I started and how much I improved myself since then. But let’s not get t...

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Dashboard Week - Day 2

Mar 28, 2023 Kate Joyce | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today was the second day of Dashboard week and the focus was on Cats. Pity im a dog person!

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Cats and their ranging/hunting habits

Mar 28, 2023 Lucas Carvalhal Sirieiro | www.thedataschool.co.uk

First day of Dashboard week for us in Germany. I’m not the biggest fan of this kind of exercise, so wasn’t really looking forward to it. Luckily the data set was about the best things that exist in this world, cats. That helped. A bit.

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Open Table Formats for Efficient Data Processing: Delta Lake vs Iceberg ...

Mar 28, 2023 Anjan Banerjee | medium.com

Open table format is a file format used to store tabular data in a way that’s easily accessible and interoperable across various data processing and analytics tools. These formats usually have a schema that defines the structure of the table and c...

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Unlocking the Next Level of Data-Enabled Decision Making

Mar 28, 2023 Raphael Teufel | interworks.com

What is Data-Enabled Decision Making? It’s actually easier to start with what it is not. It’s not making decisions based on a, “gut feeling” or other instinct, but by looking at the hard data to choose a path forward. For instance, if you have a…T...

Data,data,Fivetran,Self-ServiceAnalytics,ThoughtSpot,webinar

Tableau Accelerator Data Mapper – Tableau 2023.1 – New Feature

Mar 28, 2023 Kirsty Wall | interworks.com

What are Tableau Accelerators? In essence, Tableau Accelerators are pre-built Tableau dashboards which organisations can use as templates to quickly visualise their data without the need for extensive development time. These dashboards are excelle...

Data,Accelerators,newfeatures,Tableau

How to Install the Snowflake Python Connector in AWS Lambda

Mar 28, 2023 Fadi Al Rayes | interworks.com

If you’ve ever tried running SQL queries against Snowflake from an AWS Lambda function using Python, chances are you may have run into an error message like this: ⛔️ No module named ‘snowflake’ Fear not, there’s a simple solution you can apply in ...

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Filtering in Tableau While Keeping a Specific Category

Mar 28, 2023 Aaron Carmichael | interworks.com

Check out the workaround described here on Tableau Public: Tableau Filtering – Keep Null Out of List | Tableau Public TL;DR – With this workaround in Tableau, you can always include a category in a viz while not including it as on option in a…The ...

Data,filters,Tableau

Zum Ehrentag des Unkrauts

Mar 27, 2023 Heinrich Preuß | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Das Unkraut ist im Deutschen schon wegen der Vorsilbe -Un semantisch negativ behaftet. Das Englische ‘weed’ ist da in der Bedeutung schon weiter gefasst und lässt doch zumindest teilweise positive Konnotationen zu.Doch das Unkraut wird allgemeinhi...

ChartTypes,Storytelling,TechnicalFeatures,Tips&Tricks,UserExperience

Making Tableau Accessible

Mar 27, 2023 Curtis Paterson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

It is important to ensure that the visualisations we make are accessible to a diverse range of users, including those with disabilities. In this blog post, we’ll explore the importance of accessibility in data visualisation and how to make your vi...

ChartTypes,Storytelling,TechnicalFeatures,Tips&Tricks,UserExperience

How to in Tableau: build a sunburst chart

Mar 27, 2023 Elena Raluca Mazareanu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

During one of the last client projects we had at the Data School, I played around with the sunburst chart type and found it quite easy to build, so I wrote a blog post about it.

ChartTypes,Storytelling,TechnicalFeatures,Tips&Tricks,UserExperience

From Chaos to Coordination: My Week as Project Manager

Mar 27, 2023 Trea McElhone | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Being a project manager for the first time can be a pretty daunting experience, which is exactly how I felt when I was tasked with being the first project manager in my cohort for our first internal client project.

ChartTypes,Storytelling,TechnicalFeatures,Tips&Tricks,UserExperience

Dashboard week day One. How to make a dyscalculia friendly dashboard?

Mar 27, 2023 Anita Longa | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today, I was tasked with redesigning a Sales Report dashboard to make it accessible for users with dyscalculia.

ChartTypes,Storytelling,TechnicalFeatures,Tips&Tricks,UserExperience

Dashboard week day 1 - Accessibility (keyboard-only users)

Mar 27, 2023 Stanley Chan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When we design dashboard, our ultimate goal is to make it easier to use in order to deliver the information and insight to users. It is important to make sure that these visualizations are accessible to most of the people. However, not everyone ca...

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Dashboard Week - Day 1 Accessibility

Mar 27, 2023 Kate Joyce | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today was the first day of dashboard week and we covered accessibility. We were tasked with retrofitting an already formatted dashboard in order to make it more accessible for keyboard only user.

ChartTypes,Storytelling,TechnicalFeatures,Tips&Tricks,UserExperience

Accommodating for Dyscalculia when building Tableau Dashboards.

Mar 27, 2023 Kaitlin MacDonnell | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today we were tasked with redesigning a dashboard to accommodate for people with Dyscalculia. I wanted to go through 5 things I kept in mind whilst designing my dashboard.

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Accessibility - DS37 Dashboard week reflections

Mar 27, 2023 Jack Arnaud | www.thedataschool.co.uk

On the first day of DS37’s dashboard week, we were tasked with incorporating more accessible features into pre-existing dashboards. In my case, this meant examining some of TIL’s software sales dashboard, and remodeling it to better reflect the ne...

ChartTypes,Storytelling,TechnicalFeatures,Tips&Tricks,UserExperience

From Teaching to Data: Women’s History Month

Mar 27, 2023 Karinna Spitalnick | interworks.com

Throughout Women’s History Month, we asked a few of the women here at InterWorks to share some of their stories of womanhood and how they came to work in the tech industry. This series was curated by Sara Pineda, InterWorks’ Employee Experience In...

Culture,data,teaching,Women'sHistoryMonth

US Soccer Bonus Pay Gap

Mar 27, 2023 Sean Miller | www.hipstervizninja.com

How much less does the US Women’s soccer team make in potential world cup bonuses when compared to the US Men’s team?According to 2019 documents, each player on the US Women’s soccer team is eligible to earn approximately $270,000 in total bonuses...

Retrieving an Access Token Through OAuth on Alteryx

Mar 24, 2023 Erlina Cahyadi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

My last blog post covered how to access an API through the basic authentication process. This blog will cover how to access an API using the OAuth process. This process requires users to complete one more extra step before retrieving all the data ...

Data,Dataiku,sentimentanalysis

Dashboard Day: PowerBI

Mar 24, 2023 Elaine Yuan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

After completing the Dashboard in a Day training, which I wrote about in this blog post, I organized a Dashboard Day for the bench thrivers of DSNY2. In our training, we skipped Dashboard Week: PowerBI day and instead learned about effective data ...

Data,Dataiku,sentimentanalysis

Containers - No More Floating

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

This week I watched DS38 welcome their first client, experimented with containers, and recreated 15 dashboards using various LoDs.

Data,Dataiku,sentimentanalysis

How to Use Spatial Data to Map Rivers and Roads in Tableau

Mar 24, 2023 Megan Spengler | playfairdata.com

Spatial data is becoming increasingly relevant in the world of data visualization, and is easier to use with Tableau than…The post How to Use Spatial Data to Map Rivers and Roads in Tableau appeared first on Playfair Data.

ChartTypes,Storytelling,TechnicalFeatures,Tips&Tricks,UserExperience

Sentiment Analysis with Dataiku

Mar 24, 2023 Azucena Coronel | interworks.com

This is the first in a blog series aimed at highlighting the use of natural language processing in Dataiku. Stay tuned to the blog for more installments coming soon! The Trip I recently travelled from Sydney to Mexico to visit my family, and I had...

Data,Dataiku,sentimentanalysis

My Data Heroes

Mar 23, 2023 Flavio Matos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Have you ever thought of taking driving lessons with Lewis Hamilton, Ayrton Senna, and Michael Schumacher all teaching you together? Well, it would be a dream, wouldn’t it?! But that’s how I feel here at The Data School UK.

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Fill Through in Tableau Prep

Mar 23, 2023 Sherina Mahtani | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Before you start, you will not be able to do this procedure without a Record ID or Row ID (or some field that is an ordinal field that gives the dataset an order - e.g. Days of the Week, Number of Month, Year etc.)

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Failing to prepare (your data) is Preparing to Fail (your clients) - II ...

Mar 23, 2023 Morgan A Rennie | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A three-part mini-series on data preparation, exploring the importance of data preparation, and providing an introduction to some of the tools we use here at The Information Lab.

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Failing to prepare (your data) is Preparing to Fail (your clients) - III...

Mar 23, 2023 Morgan A Rennie | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A three-part mini-series on data preparation, exploring the importance of data preparation, and providing an introduction to some of the tools we use here at The Information Lab.

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Failing to Prepare (your data) is Preparing to Fail (your clients) - I -...

Mar 23, 2023 Morgan A Rennie | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A three-part mini-series on data preparation, exploring the importance of data preparation, and providing an introduction to some of the tools we use here at The Information Lab.

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Asemantic Induction of Hallucinations in Large Language Models

Mar 23, 2023 Chris von Csefalvay | medium.com

Live with a man 40 years. Share his house, his meals. Speak on every subject. Then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano’s edge. And on that day, you will finally meet the man.– Adlai Niska citing the fictional despot Shan Yu in Firefly, 1x10:...

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Can you build a dashboard using containers?

Mar 23, 2023 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

For this week’s challenge, Kyle got us to look at dashboard layout, specially using containers to arrange the charts and KPIs. He added in a sprinkling of interactivity to make the challenge more complete. The charts aren’t overly complex, so I wo...

How to Master Containers in Tableau

Mar 22, 2023 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

If you use Tableau, you might be wondering how to organize your dashboards effectively. That’s where containers come in handy. In this series of videos, I’ll cover everything you need to know about using containers in Tableau.→ I’ll explain what c...

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Fiscal Quarter to Date vs. Prior Fiscal Quarter to Date in Tableau

Mar 22, 2023 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Many organizations report against a fiscal calendar. If your organization’s fiscal year doesn’t start in January and you’ve tried to display values against fiscal periods in Tableau, you probably know exactly what I’m talking about.

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Alteryx Designer Cloud With Alteryx Designer UI – A First Glance

Mar 22, 2023 Robin Schouten | interworks.com

There has been a lot of movement in and around Alteryx over the past couple of years. In the past, the Alteryx universe was pretty much limited to Designer (desktop) and Gallery or Server. Designer on desktop is still the core product of Alteryx (...

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My Interactive Resume

Mar 21, 2023 Elaine Yuan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Since seeing Ann Jackson’s resume on her Tableau Public, I wanted to make my own; this was before my Data School training and now that I’m done with training, I feel well-equipped to design one.

Data,datasilos,retail,Self-ServiceAnalytics

Alteryx Cards Game

Mar 21, 2023 Robbin Vernooij | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In order to help our consultants at the Data School think through transformations prior to building flows, we’ve made some data challenges for them in Excalidraw (a brilliant online whiteboard tool for collaboration) using the Alteryx Tools to out...

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Hazards on the Road to Self-Service Analytics: Data Silos in Retail

Mar 21, 2023 John McKenzie | interworks.com

Welcome to the third edition of our new blog series: Hazards on the Road to Self-Service Analytics. A couple weeks back, I introduced this series and requested our readers input to inform the topics we’d address. Well, we heard from you and we’re ...

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