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API Access Using Snowflake External Functions and Azure

Mar 21, 2023 Chris Hastie | interworks.com

Welcome back to our mini-series on Snowflake External Functions with Azure. Before we proceed, please read the previous post on how to set up these functions and how Snowflake interacts with Azure: A Definitive Guide to Setting up Snowflake Extern...

Data,API,Azure,python,Snowflake

Making a User Friendly Custom Multi-Selection Filter

Mar 20, 2023 Hang Chen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

While working on a Makeover Monday Dashboard, I thought of an idea in making a Multi Select Parameter. However, I ended up finding out how to make a custom filter tool.

Into Tableau!

Mar 20, 2023 Lyon Abido | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Having created the Cake Works dataset and commenting on its capabilities in answering the company’s business questions, we are finally ready to jump into Tableau and see how the overview dashboard looks like. Let the data storytelling begin!

Embedding Social Media in Tableau

Mar 20, 2023 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

Have you ever tried to embed social media posts into Tableau? If so, it’s likely you’ve run into problems. For example, here’s a tweet about my Date Calculations Cheat Sheet. If I click the “Share” button on the bottom right, the...

How-To,Tableau

How to Do Customer Segmentation with Dynamic Clustering in Tableau

Mar 18, 2023 Maddie Dierkes | playfairdata.com

Tableau has a few different built-in Analytics features that allow you to both summarize and model your data in various…The post How to Do Customer Segmentation with Dynamic Clustering in Tableau appeared first on Playfair Data.

Advanced,AuthorExperience,TechnicalFeatures,Tips&Tricks

Who could tottenham have signed to replace Mousa Dembélé in 2018? Using ...

Mar 17, 2023 Lucas Krokatsis | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Principal component analysis and k-means clustering can be powerful tools in player recruitment, identifying similar players in order to narrow down the scouting pool. I used data from the 2017/18 season to try and identify potential replacements ...

Data,Axis,newfeatures,Tableau,Titles

Making a 'Snake' Timeline

Mar 17, 2023 Amelia Holland | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week I tried to incorporate a ‘snake’ shaped graph into my #MakeOverMonday attempt.

Data,Axis,newfeatures,Tableau,Titles

Florence Kelley

Mar 17, 2023 Zoe Reed | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hull House Maps and Papers is a publication from 1895 (consisting of essays and statistical information) about the living and working conditions in the worst slums in Chicago around that time. Florence Kelley led the project, and the book produced...

Data,Axis,newfeatures,Tableau,Titles

PYD119 – Football Intelligence with Author Eva Murray

Mar 17, 2023 InterWorks | interworks.com

In this episode of Podcast Your Data, InterWorks Content Manager Garrett Sauls and Services Lead Matthew Whitely sit down with author, football fan and Lead Evangelist EMEA for Snowflake Eva Murray and discuss all things data, book writing and mor...

Data,Podcast,PodcastYourData,PYD

Dynamic Axis Titles – Tableau 2023.1 – New Feature

Mar 17, 2023 Ryan Alexander | interworks.com

Tableau has launched a new feature in their latest release of 2023.1, allowing developers and end-users to benefit from axis titles to change based on parameters or calculated fields. As usual nowadays, it works in Tableau Desktop and in Tableau W...

Data,Axis,newfeatures,Tableau,Titles

How to Dynamically Resize Marks in Tableau

Mar 16, 2023 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

In this video, I show you how to resize marks (in this case circles) dependent on how many marks are in the view. For example, if all possible marks are in the view (100%), the circles should be small. If only 10% of possible marks are in the view...

cluttered,dataanalysis,density,dynamic,dynamicallyresize,howto,levelofdetail,LOD,marks,percentage,resize,size,summary,tablecalc,tablecalculation,tableau,tip,total

User-Centered Dashboard Development: Refine

Mar 16, 2023 Kendra Allenspach | interworks.com

In our previous post we previewed this phase, “Refine,” since it goes hand in hand with the “Develop” phase. They dance a tango, one leading the other as they move together towards creating a dashboard ready for production. The goal of the “Refine...

Data,Dashboarding,Tableau,UCDD

Can You Compare State Sales? Part 1

Mar 16, 2023 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

This week’s #WOW challenge was set by me and born out of a client requirement to compare store locations via selections from a map. I adapted it to use our favourite Superstore dataset (v2022.4). The core requirement is to be able to make a select...

Avoid making so what dashboards

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

Why too much “ooh-ah” and not enough “a-ha” will derail your dashboard design efforts. Over the past few months I’ve seen a rash of dashboards, some of them beautiful, that are very likely to fail. And by fail, I mean people aren’t going to use th...

BusinessVisualizations,GeneralDiscussions

Tableau Tip: How to add a 'Data Last Refreshed' Datestamp

Mar 15, 2023 Carol Mhlanga | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If data is refreshed regularly, it is wise to know if you are looking at the most recent data numbers. Stakeholders will normally ask if the data is upto date, you can eliminate this question by including a datestamp to your dashboard.

TableauGeneralKnowledge

Advanced Tableau Donut Charts | Dynamic Colors, Swap Fields

Mar 15, 2023 Ollie Linley | onenumber.biz

A few weeks ago, we took a look at how to build donut charts in Tableau. Building a donut chart is similar to building many other views in Tableau. It’s simple to set up, but how do you get it looking really great?

TableauGeneralKnowledge

Webinar Replay: Mission Critical: Tableau Cloud

Mar 15, 2023 Jonathan Lundin | interworks.com

A replay of our webinar is available here, with a writeup down below: Why We Created KeepWatch for Tableau Cloud It’s critical that companies take care of their cloud environment just as they would an on-premises server. It needs to be reliably up...

Data,KeepWatchforTableauCloud,TableauServer,WebinarReplay

Dashboarding Is Like Music: Organization

Mar 15, 2023 Chelsea Morgan | interworks.com

(Re)Intro To This Series If you are reading this, you probably already made your way through my coworker Troy’s article, which was the first in this blog series about how the creation of music and the process of building out data visualizations sh...

Data,Dashboarding,design,music,UI,UX

A Whole LOD-ta Love

Mar 14, 2023 Vivian Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

[cross-posted here]

AuthorExperience,Dashboards,Fundamentals,UserExperience

Playfair Data Hosts Team-Wide Summit in Orlando

Mar 14, 2023 Austin Meyer | playfairdata.com

Twice annually, the entire Playfair Data team gathers together to innovate, grow, and elevate our team as a whole. As…The post Playfair Data Hosts Team-Wide Summit in Orlando appeared first on Playfair Data.

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Adding color pallets Tableau

Mar 13, 2023 Eugenia Losada Gamst | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Adding custom color pallets to tableau is relatively easy and really makes your viz looked personalized. It’s great when working with clients and you want to use a color pallet from their logo and branding to make it fit into their company image. ...

Data,Azure,ExternalFunctions,Microsoft,Snowflake,SnowPark

A Definitive Guide to Setting up Snowflake External Functions with Azure

Mar 13, 2023 Chris Hastie | interworks.com

As you may be aware, Snowflake has a cool feature which allows its standard functionality to be extended through the use of external functions. Among several other capabilities, this includes the ability to leverage Azure Functions within Snowflak...

Data,Azure,ExternalFunctions,Microsoft,Snowflake,SnowPark

We are Joining Moxy Analytics

Mar 13, 2023 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

Today is an exciting day for Ken and I. You may have seen our posts on social media last week that we happened to have both resigned from our current roles on the same day. The reason for this is not because we were unhappy. In fact, we both real...

BigNews,HireUs!

Thoughts on "Dashboard in a Day" Power BI Training

Mar 10, 2023 Elaine Yuan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

While I use Tableau in my professional life here at the Data School New York, my colleague at Fullstack Academy, Ronisha Harvey, employs PowerBI. After expressing interest to her about learning PowerBI, she suggested Dashboard in a Day Power BI Tr...

Relationship Data Model - what are the noodles?

Mar 10, 2023 Edward Hayter | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog I hope to explore the relationship data model that is an option within Tableau. I will be using Alteryx workflows to try and unpack what happens when we attach two tables with “a noodle” in Tableau.

How to create a destination map in Tableau?

Mar 10, 2023 Boglarka Lipka | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog post I’ll walk you through how you can easily create a nice looking destination map.

Dear New Starters...

Mar 10, 2023 Amelia Holland | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I have just finished my first week at the Data school after starting a month before the rest of my cohort (hello DS39). I am still settling in but thought I would share a few discoveries about life in the office.

Create a custom Pacman map in Tableu

Mar 10, 2023 Boglarka Lipka | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog post I’ll walk you through how you can easily create a custom map.

The Value in Low-Fidelity Wireframes for UX and Dashboard Designs

Mar 10, 2023 Rafael Simancas | playfairdata.com

Low-fidelity (or Lo-Fi) designs are simple sketches that outline the key elements of a dashboard. In many ways, it stands…The post The Value in Low-Fidelity Wireframes for UX and Dashboard Designs appeared first on Playfair Data.

AuthorExperience,Dashboards,Fundamentals,UserExperience

Let’s practice using the Device Designer

Mar 10, 2023 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Inspired by a discussion on Twitter that resulted in this blog post from Kevin Flerlage, Sean challenged us this week to build a viz that should adapt for different devices. This makes use of the dashboard layout feature in Tableau (see here for f...

#Throwback Thursday - Data School Training Reflection

Mar 9, 2023 Serena Purslow | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I’m freshly ‘graduated’ from the Data School, and waiting to go on my first placement, so thought I’d take this time to reflect on my overall experience of training at the Data School.

Data

Taking the AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam ☁️

Mar 9, 2023 Elaine Yuan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Practitioner Certification has been on my to-do list ever since I graduated from Fullstack Academy’s DATA program, where I was introduced to some of the services of AWS. Well, I finally took the test and passed!

Data

#How To - Add Start & End Dots to Sparklines

Mar 9, 2023 Trea McElhone | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Sparklines are a frequent component of dashboard KPIs as they provide a helpful bite-sized visualisation of a trend. The addition of start and end dots to the spark lines are a useful way to mark the most recent and least recent data points, as we...

Data

User-Centered Dashboard Development: Develop

Mar 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, which you can find at the bottom, then come back here! Now that we have a plan of what we want to build from our…The ...

Data,dashboards,Develop,UCDD

Hazards on the Road to Self-Service Analytics: Data Governance in Health...

Mar 9, 2023 John McKenzie | interworks.com

Welcome to the second 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’r...

Data

What are the advantages of a Sankey chart and when/how to use it?

Mar 8, 2023 Lucas Carvalhal Sirieiro | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Sankey charts (a.k.a. diagrams) are useful for visualizing the flow of data or information through a system or process. Here are some advantages of using a Sankey chart: