Simple Moving Averages Explained!

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

What is a moving average?

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Personal Advice of Web Scraping in Alteryx

Mar 7, 2023 Stanley Chan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Web Scraping means to extract the information from the webpage. In Alteryx, we can easily extract the HTML information from a webpage . However, I found that the downstream procedure is what makes it difficult. Here is what I think being important...

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Moving Average with Parameter

Mar 7, 2023 Karina Chan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

With the help of table calculation, moving average can be easily calculation in Tableau. But do you know that you can make the calculation interactive by creating a parameter to change the months of moving average? In this blog, I will walk you th...

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Marie Kondo That Chartjunk

Mar 7, 2023 Jessica Kwan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What is Chart Junk?

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Level of detail calculations in Tableau

Mar 7, 2023 Andreea Scintei | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Took me a while to wrap my head around LODs, until one of our coaches compared it to the Summarize tool in Alteryx. For those that haven’t used Alteryx and don’t understand the analogy, level of detail calculations allow the user to control their ...

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Key Tips for Dashboard Design

Mar 7, 2023 Trea McElhone | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Your dashboard is essential for communicating important information and insights, although it’s not always easy to design a dashboard that is both aesthetically appealing and effective at communication.

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How to make a Bump Chart - Tableau

Mar 7, 2023 Habeeb Gayle | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Bump charts can be useful when visualizing how the rank of something changes over time. It can be particularly useful when comparing position or performance of something.

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How not to webscrape in Alteryx

Mar 7, 2023 Jack Arnaud | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today I had a humbling experience, trying to web-scrape just one table from a Wikipedia page. Although I eventually got the table in a format I could use, it has been close to three hours of bother. It has left me with a profound gratitude for API...

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#HowTo - Calculate a Moving Average in Tableau

Mar 7, 2023 Trea McElhone | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this #HowTo, I will be showing you how to create a moving average in Tableau Desktop, using the classic Sample-Superstore dataset and creating the moving average with sales data, so you can follow along if you wish.

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Easy Preppin'

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

During our first week at the Data School, I was introduced to an user friendly data prepping tool called Tableau Prep. Analysts often have to do a lot of mental gymnastics when prepping data in Excel but Tableau Prep’s smart interface streamlines ...

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Building a Control Chart to Identify Outliers

Mar 7, 2023 Edward Hayter | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today’s blog is a breakdown of how I created a control chart with Level Of Detail (LOD) calculations.

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An Introduction to Webscraping

Mar 7, 2023 Curtis Paterson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today I’ve been learning all about webscraping. For those who don’t know, webscraping is a way of extracting information from a website programmatically, and it’s worth mentioning that this is not permitted for every website. I started by looking ...

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10 easy steps to build a bump chart in Tableau

Mar 7, 2023 Adrien Sourdille | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A bump chart is a data visualization that shows changes in the ranking of a set of items or entities over time. It is useful for analyzing and communicating changes in relative position and is commonly used in sports, finance, and business. Bump c...

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Data for the Next Pandemic

Mar 7, 2023 Chris von Csefalvay | medium.com

Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the medical, public health and disaster preparedness communities are trying to isolate lessons learned from the harrowing experience of a global outbreak that resulted in little shy of seven million deaths. ...

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Quick Start Guide: Connecting VSCode to AWS

Mar 7, 2023 Jason Hoehn | interworks.com

There are several ways to develop, debug and deploy serverless applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS). One of my favorite tools to achieve this locally is the AWS Toolkit for VSCode because it streamlines the application development process in ...

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Using Figma to elevate your tableau dashboard designs

Mar 6, 2023 Eugenia Losada Gamst | www.thedataschool.co.uk

During a client project one of our client projects, they asked us to create a dashboard that would be usable in mobile and on desktop. They gave us a few examples of app designs that they liked in which I found a constant pattern: All of them used...

Tableau Date Calculation Cheat Sheet

Mar 6, 2023 Karina Chan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Personally, I believe date calculation is one of the most useful calculations in Tableau. However, it could be confusing with all the functions if you are not familiar with Tableau calculation language. Therefore, I created this cheat sheet for yo...

Power BI vs Tableau

Mar 6, 2023 Elena Raluca Mazareanu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Since we had two training sessions for Power BI last week, I thought it would be good to summarize my first thoughts and compare them with Tableau in this article.

Building a Power BI Portfolio

Mar 6, 2023 Tanya Fischer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

So, I had some time at hand and played around in Power BI. It’s been a while since I used it last so the dashboard I built was super basic just to get a bit of a feeling for the programme. Still, I wanted to publish it somewhere, because a) everyt...

Am I a Snack Monster?

Mar 6, 2023 Elaine Yuan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I love the snacks in the Data School New York office. There is a wide selection to choose from, from healthy and sweet fig bars to crunchy and salty potato chips. (If you plan to apply to DSNY, know that you will be well-fed here with our well-sto...

What Size Should Your Dashboard Be?

Mar 6, 2023 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 A few weeks ago, I was collaborating with Dinushki De Livera on a work dashboard. I had changed the size of the dashboard to be 1400 x 800 and she commented that she thought it was a bit too wide and suggested 1200 x 800. It was then ...

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Using a Start Date and End Date Parameters to change Months in view

Mar 4, 2023 John Power | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For this example I will be using the US Superstore Date Set to display the SUM of Sales by Month of Order Date.

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Un truco de filtro en Tableau

Mar 4, 2023 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

Erica Hughes nos comenta que el desafío de la semana 9 de #WOW2023 se inspiró en la necesidad presentada por un cliente: ¿Cómo hacer que valores específicos siempre se seleccionen en un filtro? Para fines del desafío se utilizaron los datos de la ...

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A Trick Filter in Tableau

Mar 4, 2023 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

Erica Hughes tells us that the #WOW2023 week 9 challenge was inspired by a customer need: How to make specific values always be selected in a filter? For the purposes of the challenge, data from the Supertore data source was used to exemplify the ...

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Mobile friendly dash(Dashboard week day 5)

Mar 3, 2023 Eugenia Losada Gamst | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today was the final day of dashboard week, and I was worried we were going to get a super complicated task that was incredibly technical heavy but instead we got my favorited kind of task, one we can get creative with and  have a little fun making.

How to in Tableau: donut tile map

Mar 3, 2023 Elena Raluca Mazareanu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For Makeover Monday week 3, I wanted to play around with the tiled map options. I knew how to make hex maps but I also liked the donut charts so I thought why not combine them?

GETting API Authorization with Basic Authentication on Alteryx

Mar 3, 2023 Erlina Cahyadi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Are you looking to GET some data using an API? Does your API require an authentication key? Are you unsure how to get said authentication key?

Exec KPI dash in Power BI (Dashboard week day 4)

Mar 3, 2023 Eugenia Losada Gamst | www.thedataschool.co.uk

We’re nearing the end of dashboard week and training. One of our petitions during training was to do more work with Power BI, so that’s exactly what we got today. For dashboard week day 4 we had to build a KPI or executive dashboard using Power BI.

Dashboard week day 5: The finale

Mar 3, 2023 Lucas Krokatsis | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For our fifth and final day of dashboard week (and training), we were tasked with creating a dashboard either focused on an analyst level so exploratory and specific, or focused at c-suite executives. I went for the latter, so this entailed creati...

Dashboard Week- Day 5 Multiple Device Layout

Mar 3, 2023 Linda Duong | www.thedataschool.co.uk

On the last day, we had to build an analyst dashboard that works on multiple devices. The data that we used was on kickstart projects that requested crowdfunding to meet their budget goals.

Dashboard Week Day 5 - Multi-Device Design

Mar 3, 2023 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Your audience might be viewing your dashboard on their laptop or maybe on their phone. You need to know how to design for both. That’s DS36’s last Dashboard Week project.

Dashboard Week Day 5 - Mobile Dashboard

Mar 3, 2023 Serena Purslow | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The final day of dashboard week - check out the steps I took to producing a dashboard fit for both mobile and desktop view!

Dashboard Week Day 5: Adaptive Mobile Design

Mar 3, 2023 Almeera Hasham | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today’s project involved creating a dashboard that can adapt to desktop and mobile layouts. We were given the following dataset on Kaggle.

Dashboard Day 5- C Suite KPI

Mar 3, 2023 Archie Boswell | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today we got the choice of whether we wanted to make a C-level dashboard or an analytic dashboard on a kickstart data set found on kaggle. I thought that because i have more experience on the analytics side i wanted to test my skills by making an ...

DASHBOARD WEEK DAY 4: CANDY

Mar 3, 2023 Erlina Cahyadi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For dashboard week day 4, we were assigned with the task of visualizing survey data about American candy from 2014-2017. Data prep had to be done using Tableau Prep in the browser, along with building a dashboard via web authoring. We were allowed...

Women who paved the way...

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

With International Women’s day approaching, I have sought to take a look at some pioneering women in the data world - both past and present. We will be kicking off with Katherine Johnson - an African American data scientist who contributed tremend...

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Thinking Outside the Alteryx Canvas

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

When working with Alteryx and Tableau it can useful to plan out workflows and dashboards on paper and to force yourself to think outside the box, or in this case, the Alteryx canvas.

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Tableau Data Analyst Certification tips

Mar 2, 2023 Lucas Carvalhal Sirieiro | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hier sind einige Tipps, die Ihnen bei der Vorbereitung helfen könnten:

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Planning A Data Prep

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

Yesterday Coach Carl gave us a dataset for a hypothetical bookshop and told us to produce a single Tableau Data Source ready for analysis in 40/45 minutes before turning into Client Carl. The blog explores what I drew from the exercise.

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Lessons Learned Climbing the Alteryx Weekly Challenge Tracker

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

In this blog I’d thought I’d share some lessons of my first 3 weeks of Alteryx.

Data,charts,dashboards,design,UCDD,userpersonas

Embedding a visualization inside your blog

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

Visuals are a powerful tool for communicating complex ideas and data in a clear and compelling way. However, simply including an image or chart in a blog post may not be enough to convey the full depth and richness of the information being present...

Data,charts,dashboards,design,UCDD,userpersonas

Datumsberechnungen in Tableau

Mar 2, 2023 Jan Kaiser | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Datumsangaben gibt es in vielen Datenquellen. Da jedoch nicht immer alle benötigten Datumsangaben gegeben sind, ist es wichtig diese zu bearbeiten. Dafür gibt es in Tableau Datumsfunktionen, die in diesem Blog besprochen werden.

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Dashboard week day 4: The power of BI

Mar 2, 2023 Lucas Krokatsis | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For the fourth day of dashboard week, we were tasked with creating a KPI dashboard within PowerBI. We had to choose a dataset from the sample ones provided by PowerBI. I chose the customer profitability dataset.

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Dashboard Week Day 4 - Power BI

Mar 2, 2023 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I’m always impressed with how quickly DSers can learn. In this project, DS36 will learn Power BI in a day!

Data,charts,dashboards,design,UCDD,userpersonas

User-Centered Dashboard Development: Define

Mar 2, 2023 Kendra Allenspach | interworks.com

If you’re new to User-Centered Dashboard Development (UCDD), please check out the first two posts in this series (found down below) to get acclimated, then come back here! Last week, we talked about the importance of understanding our users and th...

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