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What are Fixed Level of Detail Calculations in Tableau?

Jan 18, 2023 Almeera Hasham | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Fixed Level of Detail (LOD) calculations are based on the specific dimensions outlined by the user, without referencing what is in the view.

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Time after Time: using LOOKUP with date filters

Jan 18, 2023 Caitlin Walsh | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Using the LOOKUP table calculation we can create a simple bar chart to compare this year’s monthly values to the same time last year. Date Parameters can also be added to make the chart more dynamic.

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Interview Tips

Jan 18, 2023 Tara Robinson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog is to give tips for when preparing for an interview for a placement.

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Day 1.5 as Project Manager

Jan 18, 2023 Tara Robinson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The 2nd day (well half day) as project manager. This blog is a follow up of what the team are working on and how I think I am doing as project manager. This is part of a mini series for my week as PM.

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How to Tableau: Pivots in Tableau Desktop

Jan 18, 2023 Ollie Linley | onenumber.biz

Getting the structure of our data correct for Tableau Desktop can make a huge difference. Tableau is pretty picky about the way it wants our data to be formatted. Generally, each column should be a new dimension or measure.

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How to create an Analytical App

Jan 17, 2023 Tara Robinson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog is going to look at how to create an analytical app in Alteryx. For this task I will be more focusing on what makes this an analytical app rather then the workflow itself.

Data,Azure,contasiners,Snowflake,Snowpipe,stages

Day 1 as Project Manager

Jan 17, 2023 Tara Robinson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 1 as project manager this blog is how I felt I done as project manager on my first day. We are working with IAG Cargo for this project where we are tasked with forecasting and creating an actions dashboard.

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Column and Row Level Security in Tableau

Jan 17, 2023 Juhie Radia | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog explains how to control access to your dashboards, looking at column and row level security as well user filters and general access.

Data,Azure,contasiners,Snowflake,Snowpipe,stages

Blog Index

Jan 17, 2023 Flavio Matos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This is the index page of my blog posts. Its divided by topics to make it easier to find the post you want.

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Introducing Atlas from Playfair+

Jan 17, 2023 Austin Meyer | playfairdata.com

Playfair Data, the leading provider of visual data analytics solutions, today announced Atlas, a new library of chart types for…The post Introducing Atlas from Playfair+ appeared first on Playfair Data.

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Configuring Storage Integrations Between Snowflake and Azure Storage

Jan 17, 2023 Chris Hastie | interworks.com

If you have data stored in an Azure Storage container and wish to ingest it into Snowflake using native functionality, you will most likely be considering either direct COPY INTO statements or an automated Snowpipe to ingest the data. Both of thes...

Data,Azure,contasiners,Snowflake,Snowpipe,stages

How to create an alternative map projection in Tableau using QGIS

Jan 16, 2023 Jia Yan Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If you have plotted maps in Tableau, you’ve probably found your limits with the default map configuration. This past weekend, as I worked on the third week of MakeoverMonday, I attempted to recreate the map shown in the original article in Tableau...

5 Handy Tableau Regex Techniques

Jan 16, 2023 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

I’ll admit that I’m terrible with regular expressions (REGEX). That’s why I asked Don Wise to write a series of guest blog posts on the basics of regex and how to use them. Fortunately, due to my work on the Tableau Community Forums an...

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Tips For Data School Application Vizzes

Jan 13, 2023 Elaine Yuan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

After a week-long case study of Survivor data, Data School New York applicants for cohort 3 submitted their final application dashboards earlier this week! Before the deadline, I organized office hours for friends applying to the Data School. As I...

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Scripting Made Easy with ThoughtSpot Modeling Language

Jan 13, 2023 Roger Garcia | interworks.com

If you’ve heard about ThoughtSpot, you are probably as excited as we are here at Interworks about its potential. If you are not too familiar with this tool I’d strongly suggest this article series. Several of our clients in Sydney and Melbourne al...

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#Throwback Thursday - Week 10 at The Data School

Jan 12, 2023 Serena Purslow | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Join me for my weekly reflection of life at the Data School!

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How to run a Performance Test on a Dashboard on Server

Jan 12, 2023 John Power | www.thedataschool.co.uk

First of all you need to ensure that the Dashboard is embedded on your server.

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CRM vs Tableau vs Power BI

Jan 12, 2023 Tara Robinson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog is going to look at what CRM, Tableau and Powe BI are and what I personally think the benefits and drawbacks are especially when trying to recreate the same dashboard in all three.

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Alteryx: Directory Tool & Dynamic Input

Jan 12, 2023 John Power | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If our files are all located within the same folder we can use the regular input tool.

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IaC 101: Building Reliable Infrastructure with the Power of Code

Jan 12, 2023 Anjan Banerjee | medium.com

For many organizations, infrastructure management often presents issues due to the time and effort required to manually provision and configure resources. This can be particularly challenging in large and complex infrastructure environments, as it...

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Setting Up Tableau Dashboard Data Alerts

Jan 12, 2023 Kendra Allenspach | interworks.com

Data Driven Alerts in Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud is a built-in feature that allows you to tell Tableau Server you want to be notified if your data reaches a set threshold for your business. When they’re set up, data driven alerts can automat...

Data,alerts,Dashboard,Tableau

Can you visualise orders?

Jan 12, 2023 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

For Luke’s first challenge of 2023, he asked us to recreate this visualisation which showed multiple chart types (donut charts and bar charts) within a tabular layout, all built on a single sheet. As with most challenges, I’m going to first work o...

Very Useful & Quite Useful Tableau Tips

Jan 11, 2023 Stephen Moyse | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In order of usefulness, here are some Tableau tips that I learnt today.

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The difference between Blue and Green pills in Tableau

Jan 11, 2023 Flavio Matos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

You are going to see the difference between the Blue and Green pills in Tableau Desktop

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Tableau Server Repository Introduction

Jan 11, 2023 Tara Robinson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog will be exploring what a tableau server repository, who can access it, what the view is on server and finally showing how you can access this on tableau.

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SQL Order of Operations

Jan 11, 2023 Eamonn Woodham | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The SQL order of operations refers to the sequence in which different clauses of a SQL query are executed. Each clause has a specific purpose and performs a specific task, and the order in which these clauses are executed can affect the final resu...

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Preparation for Tableau Data Analyst Certification

Jan 11, 2023 Eamonn Woodham | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Exam Format

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How to Create a Menu Button

Jan 11, 2023 Tara Robinson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog is going to demonstrate how to create a menu button that basically is used to show and hide objects.

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How To Make A GIF To Up Your Blog Game! (Quick Version)

Jan 11, 2023 Stephen Moyse | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This is the easiest way to make and upload a GIF after trying countless other methods!

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Highlighting Fields Using Set Actions in Tableau

Jan 11, 2023 Keren Aharon | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Often it is useful to highlight specific fields in your dashboards using colours.

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Deep Dive Into Tableau Server - PostgreSQL

Jan 11, 2023 Shahbaz Khan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The past couple of days DS35 have been learning all about tableau server everything from installs, permissions on tableau server, tab admin command prompts etc. Today we looked at the tableau server repository, which is responsible for storing and...

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Alteryx: Publish to Tableau Server Tool

Jan 11, 2023 John Power | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Once a workflow is created in Alteryx is it very common for Tableau Desktop to then be utilized for any required data analysis and visualizations.

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Tableau Join Types Explained (Left, Right, Inner, Outer)

Jan 11, 2023 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Joins in Tableau Desktop are one of the primary methods for combining multiple tables of data horizontally. One of the great things about joins are their flexibility! You can choose if you’d like to keep all data from both tables in your result se...

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JavaScript in Retool: Transformers vs Queries

Jan 11, 2023 | andredevries.dev

Retool applications really come to live when you sprinkle in some JavaScript. The real magic behind a lot of your data manipulation and UI control is defined by how and where you write JavaScript. There are two ways to add business logic to your a...

The basics of LODS

Jan 10, 2023 Tara Robinson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog will explore what a LOD is, the different types and finally how to create one in both prep and in tableau.