A (Measure) Switch (Parameter) in Time Saves Nine (Visualizations)

Feb 27, 2023 Vivian Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

[on Parameters & Calculated Fields]

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How to Sort in Tableau

Feb 27, 2023 Fabricia | tarsolutions.co.uk

Sorting in Tableau can be perplexing. Sometimes Tableau sorting appears to not work, it may not do as expected. Sometimes the sort doesn’t seem to … Read moreSource

Tableau,calculatedfield,sort,tableau

Use a selected bar as a reference for comparison.

Feb 26, 2023 Michael Apau | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog, I will be showing how to use a selected bar as a comparison reference to the other bars using parameter action.

Current Month vs Previous Month

Feb 26, 2023 Michael Apau | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In our analytics journey, we sometimes want to compare what is happening in this month as compared to the past month.

How to Build a Comet Chart in Tableau

Feb 26, 2023 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

For week 8 of #WOW2023, Luke Stanke set us a challenge to build a comet chart as an alternative to using side-by-side bar charts. Luke tells us that the side-by-side bar chart is his least favorite chart, because in addition to taking up a lot of ...

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Cómo construir un Gráfico de Cometa en Tableau

Feb 26, 2023 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

Para la semana 8 de #WOW2023, Luke Stanke nos preparó un desafío que consiste en construir un gráfico de cometa como una alternativa al uso de los gráficos de barras lado-a-lado. Luke nos comenta que el gráfico de barra lado-a-lado es su gráfico m...

Español,#Comet,#CometChart,#WorkoutWednesday

Region To State Drill Down Using Set Actions

Feb 25, 2023 Michael Apau | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In todays blog, I want to demonstrate how set actions can be used for drilling down on Maps from regions to state.

Español,#Comet,#CometChart,#WorkoutWednesday

How To Create a Layered Hex Map

Feb 25, 2023 Michael Apau | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hex maps are generally difficult to be layered since their sizes can’t be altered when using spatial files. In the midst of this, layered maps are aesthetically pleasing when we want to compare 2 different metrics on a specific dimension.

Español,#Comet,#CometChart,#WorkoutWednesday

Welcome to Prep(pin') Data!

Feb 24, 2023 Nayeli Jaime | www.thedataschool.co.uk

My last blog post focuses on some design principles to implement in your visualizations to make them more clear and concise. But an important step before you start visualizing your data is to prep it! Prepping your data, also known as Data Wrangli...

Data,Tableau,TableauBridge

Quick Table Calculations Part 6 - Percentile

Feb 24, 2023 Serena Purslow | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This is the second to last blog in my series on Tableau Table Calculations. This time we will be going through creating a Percentile Calculation!

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Dealing with Complex datasets can be a challenging task

Feb 24, 2023 Lucas Carvalhal Sirieiro | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week we had to work with a dataset that seemed easy to understand at first, but after closer inspection, it turned out to be more complex than expected. First glances can be deceiving. Spoiler alert, that’s the main learning for me from this ...

Data,Tableau,TableauBridge

Avoiding Regex in Alteryx

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

Regex confuses me. It’s a struggle to determine the characters necessary to identify patterns in text. To circumvent this dilemma, I utilize other tools.

Data,Tableau,TableauBridge

A faster way to load CSV files from the local system into Snowflake

Feb 24, 2023 Jia Yan Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A more efficient way to load multiple local files to snowflake using SnowSQL via cmd.

Data,Tableau,TableauBridge

User-Centered Dashboard Development: Understand

Feb 24, 2023 Kendra Allenspach | interworks.com

In our last blog post, we talked about the 3 principles to User-Centered Dashboard Development (UCDD):  Start with users, not with the data.  Not just users first, but users throughout.  Don’t build it and forget it. Build it and nurture it.  Now,...

Data,Dashboarding,UCDD,UserCentered

Tableau Bridge: What Is Pooling?

Feb 24, 2023 Sarah Dorfman | interworks.com

You may have heard about the concept of Pooling when it comes to Tableau Bridge, but if you haven’t, you’re probably wondering, “What is this? Does it mean we’re going swimming?” We wish, but no! The purpose of Pooling is to distribute or load bal...

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Tableau Bridge: What Is It (and Do I Need It)?

Feb 24, 2023 Madeline Cook | interworks.com

Tableau has a vast collection of products designed to help you do the most with analytics in your organization: Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep, Tableau Server, and Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online). There is also a lesser known (and free) sof...

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Tableau Bridge: Security

Feb 24, 2023 Sarah Dorfman | interworks.com

Welcome to the final post in our Tableau Bridge series!  We started with a simple question of What is Tableau Bridge?  We got a bit technical with installation, data source requirements and Pooling, and then created our first schedules.  In this l...

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Tableau Bridge: Scheduling

Feb 24, 2023 Madeline Cook | interworks.com

So far in our Tableau Bridge blog series, we’ve identified What is Tableau Bridge and whether you need it for your deployment of Tableau Cloud. We then dove into Setting Up Tableau Bridge and the considerations needed to ensure success in refreshi...

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Tableau Bridge: Installation

Feb 24, 2023 Madeline Cook | interworks.com

Welcome to the third blog in our Tableau Bridge series.  Here, we’ll discuss Tableau Bridge installation and setup.  If you’re not sure whether Tableau Bridge is required for your environment, we suggest you visit the first blog in this series bef...

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Tableau Bridge: Data Source Requirements

Feb 24, 2023 Sarah Dorfman | interworks.com

If you’re following along in our Tableau Bridge blog series, you’ve likely arrived here having identified that you’ll need Tableau Bridge to keep your on-premises data fresh and are looking for next steps.  If so, you’re in the right place!  If yo...

Data,Tableau,TableauBridge

Web scraping 101 on Alteryx

Feb 23, 2023 Eugenia Losada Gamst | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today we covered web scraping for the first time, and as usual I’m going to write a blog about it to be able to come back to it if I ever forget any of the steps.

Data,automation,Tableau,workbooks

#Throwback Thursday - Week 16 at The Data School

Feb 23, 2023 Serena Purslow | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Our final week of training (eek)!!! Join me for my weekly reflection on life at the Data School.

Data,automation,Tableau,workbooks

Dashboard week day 3 - fine tuning the process

Feb 23, 2023 Peter Hajnal | www.thedataschool.co.uk

With useful feedback from yesterday’s presentation, I started this one with more ideas of how my day will look like. Think-Plan-Execute-Think-Eat-Think-Execute.

Data,automation,Tableau,workbooks

Automation is Fun: Easily Open Tableau Workbooks in the Right Version!

Feb 23, 2023 Zoltan Aldott | interworks.com

Hey there! Are you tired of having to manually open your Tableau workbooks in the correct version of Tableau? No? Is it just me? Well anyway, in today’s blog post, we’re going to talk about a neat Python script that saves me tons of time…The post ...

Data,automation,Tableau,workbooks

Can you build a comet chart as an alternative to a side by side bar chart?

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

In the final week of ‘alternative charts month’, Luke set this challenge as different way of presenting data that you might typically see in a side-by-side bar chart. Luke had indicated on the #WOW splash screen, that this challenge was ‘easy’, bu...

Revamping my Application Viz

Feb 22, 2023 Trea McElhone | www.thedataschool.co.uk

After one week of tableau training we were given our project wherein we were tasked with revisualising our original application viz. Which seemed fairly straightforward - although there was one slight caveat - we only had around 3 hours

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Goals to achieve by the end of training

Feb 22, 2023 Edward Hayter | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I want to use this blog entry to set 5 goals I would like to achieve by the end of training. Rather than make some outlandish goals I have no interest in fulfilling, I am going to eschew my politics background and aim to set some realistic goals t...

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BENCH BLOG 4 - Dashboard Week Day 2 - Vegetables

Feb 22, 2023 Mohammed Uddin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today’s dashboard deals with vegetable production and consumption data in the U.S.; from 1970 to 2019. Especially on loss - adjust or how much a food has lost; for instance, the loss in weight since it was plucked from the ground till it arrives i...

Data,automation,Tableau,workbooks

BENCH BLOG 3 - Dashboard Week Day 1 - Federal Infrastructure Projects

Feb 22, 2023 Mohammed Uddin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The first day of dashboard week had me working on a federal infrastructure dataset. This relates to “public works projects funded by the federal government and designed to build, maintain or upgrade infrastructure systems within the country”; than...

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1st Day with Tableau Prep: What I liked and what I didn’t

Feb 22, 2023 Edward Hayter | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I was using Alteryx today and having difficulty reading in a single excel with multiple sheets and unioning the sheets with a new field that documented the sheet name. In Tableau prep it was really straightforward in the input data step:

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How to Automate a Tableau Prep Flow

Feb 22, 2023 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Tableau Prep is a powerful tool for cleaning, structuring and preparing data for analysis in Tableau Desktop. The Tableau Prep Builder software provides the ability to create data workflows which can be run manually. That’s fine when data is updat...

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Tableau Parameters: How to Set up Default Values

Feb 21, 2023 Ben Connor | www.thedataschool.co.uk

How to create a parameter with a dynamic default value which will always update based on new data in a given field e.g. Default to a state with the highest sales.

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Number Functions in Tableau

Feb 21, 2023 Tanbir Jalil | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Here is a short but hopefully informative post detailing the different number calculated field functions available to you in Tableau. There are a variety of uses that will be explained and exemplified

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Exploring the DS Library - "An Infographic History of the World"

Feb 21, 2023 Trea McElhone | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In our first week at the Data School Cohort 38 and myself were tasked with choosing a book The Data School UK library and either reading the first 50 words or skimming the first few pages of each chapter - and determine whether we would recommend ...

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9 Quick Alteryx Tips to Optimize Your Data Workflows

Feb 21, 2023 Ariana Cukier | playfairdata.com

When beginning to develop an Alteryx workflow, sometimes I find myself asking, where should I start? What happens next? How…The post 9 Quick Alteryx Tips to Optimize Your Data Workflows appeared first on Playfair Data.

AuthorExperience,DataPrep,Fundamentals,Tips&Tricks

Introducing KeepWatch for Tableau Cloud

Feb 21, 2023 Jonathan Lundin | interworks.com

Since inception, InterWorks has been, at heart, a services organization. Our core desire is for our customers to think of us as partners, trusted advisors, and allies in carrying out their mission. That is, at the end of the day, our own mission. ...

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Automated Ingestion from AWS S3 into Snowflake via Snowpipe

Feb 21, 2023 Fadi Al Rayes | interworks.com

To stream/ingest data automatically from an AWS S3 bucket into Snowflake using native functionality, Snowpipe is likely the solution you’re seeking. We do have two related posts you can explore for related content: Configuring Storage Integrations...

Data,AWS,DataManagement,datastreaming,S3,Snowflake,Snowpipe

#MakeoverMonday 2023 Week 8 - The Cost Effectiveness of Protein Sources

Feb 20, 2023 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

This week we explored the cost of 20g of protein in various foods. During Watch Me Viz, I showed how to create toggles to allow the user to filter by vegan and vegetarian foods. I did this with parameter actions; if you want to learn more, watch t...

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Customizing Your Tableau Governance: A Delegated Solution

Feb 20, 2023 Madeline Cook | interworks.com

Welcome to the second post in a series of three on Tableau Governance solutions!  Here we’re exploring ways that we used the core Governance Principles to guide clients towards taking control of their Tableau environment and creating stronger self...

Data,Governance,Governance360,Tableau,TableauCloud,TableauServer

Kirk Munroe: 14 Scenarios and When to Use Tableau Prep vs Desktop?

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

 Kevin and I are pleased to welcome back Kirk Munroe for the second blog in his series about data modeling with Tableau. Kirk lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and is a business analytics and performance management expert. He is currently one ...

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I've made data products for a range of clients. Here is what I have lear...

Feb 18, 2023 Tristan Kelly | www.thedataschool.co.uk

One of the great things about being a consultant is that you are able to work with a lot of different people in a lot of different industries. Whether it was the short, team-based client projects that I started with or the longer, more independent...

Was ist ein Labor (Kundenprojekt) in der Data School?

Feb 17, 2023 Lucas Carvalhal Sirieiro | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Bei den Kundenprojekten (a.k.a. Labore in Deutschland) der Data School handelt es sich um Kurzzeitprojekte, bei denen die Data Schoolers an realen Datenanalyseproblemen für Kunden arbeiten. Diese Projekte dauern in der Regel eine Woche und beinhal...

Type Conversions

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

Type conversions are functions that allow us to convert fields or a string from one data type to another.

#Throwback Thursday - Week 15 at The Data School

Feb 17, 2023 Serena Purslow | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Our final client project, and a server heavy week - join me for my weekly reflection on life at the Data School!

Data,data,datapreparation,education,Hazards

String Functions Simplified

Feb 17, 2023 Trea McElhone | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Simplifying string functions in a quick cheat-sheet