Dashboard Week: Day 5

Nov 25, 2022 Ben Winsey | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Dashboard Week: Day 5

Dashboard Day 3

Nov 25, 2022 Angelica Obi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today we had to webscrape the NRL website to get information about two teams. We needed all the games from 2017 - 2022, the player stats, and play by play commentary. Safe to say I did not finish all of that!!!! It was so much

DS34: Dashboard Week Final Day

Nov 25, 2022 Lorna Brown | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Yesterday DS34 web scrape the NRL Match Centre for all the games from 2017 through to 2022. Due to the shorter time from of Friday’s today’s task is to create a dashboard or two. They will have two other datasources: UK Super League 2017-2022 &...

Creating Custom Color Palettes in Tableau

Nov 25, 2022 Juliet Craig | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A basic part of data visualization is color. This is often where us analysts get to be the most creative. As many of you know, Tableau comes with many preloaded color palettes.

#ThrowbackThursday - Week 3 at The Data School

Nov 24, 2022 Serena Purslow | www.thedataschool.co.uk

It’s Thursday again which means it’s time to reflect on my third week at The Data School.

Resize images used for web-object embeded in Tableau Public

Nov 24, 2022 Tram Nguyen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I hope this blog should be useful because some of you might have encountered the same issue when it comes to embedding an web object of distorted size in Tableau Public. Long story short:

First() and Last() Graph

Nov 24, 2022 Tara Robinson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The following graph shown below shows the top 15 states by sum of sales with the first and the last bar highlighted to show the value.

Dashboard Week: Webscraping

Nov 24, 2022 Lauren Halliwell | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today we were given the task to take data of the teams and games (including player statistics and match information) from the NRL website.

Dashboard Week - Day 4 - Web scrape NRL Data

Nov 24, 2022 Cammy Phillips | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Some things to consider when you web scrape

Dashboard Week | Day 4: Web Scraping

Nov 24, 2022 Hannah Laughton | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 4 of Dashboard Week

Dashboard Week: Day 4 - Scraping the Web!

Nov 24, 2022 Arnold Quarcoo | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A blog on what I did on the 4th day of dashboard day.

Dashboard Week Day 4: Dynamic Select Use Case

Nov 24, 2022 Finn Charlton | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today we were tasked with web-scraping data from the New Zealand / Australian Rugby League. Instead of talking through this workflow…

Dashboard Week: Day 3

Nov 24, 2022 Ben Winsey | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Dashboard week: Day 3

DS34: Dashboard Week Day 3

Nov 24, 2022 Lorna Brown | www.thedataschool.co.uk

One of the perks of being a coach is sometimes you get to delegate projects that are on your own backlog to the likes of these type of projects. Today is one of those. I am a big Rugby League fan as some of you might know and I regularly collect d...

Can you label & sort small multiples?

Nov 24, 2022 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

A colourful #WOW2022 challenge this week set by Kyle Yetter and using his favourite data – Baseball. Let’s jump straight in. Building the required calculations First up we need to calculate the core measure the viz is based on – % of wins Win % SU...

Presenting Tips

Nov 23, 2022 Tara Robinson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When I started the data school I was always very nervous when it came to presenting. This was one skill I was hoping to improve on at the data school. I am now two months into the data school and I have been told by so many people how far I have c...

Dashboard week day 1

Nov 23, 2022 Angelica Obi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today we had our first dashboard week and it was really interesting. Our dashboard was focused on being accessible to a specific target chosen by us. I chose to do a dashboard aimed at those with partial and full visual impairments.

Dashboard Week Day 3: The Perfect Swiss House

Nov 23, 2022 Finn Charlton | www.thedataschool.co.uk

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Dashboard Week: Day 3 - Large Data!

Nov 23, 2022 Arnold Quarcoo | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A blog on the work done in the 3rd day of our dashboard week.

Dashboard Week | Day 3: Big Data Set

Nov 23, 2022 Hannah Laughton | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 3 of Dashboard Week

Dashboard Week - Day 3 - Big Data Day

Nov 23, 2022 Cammy Phillips | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What I did on day 3 of dashboard week, including some tips for using big data

Dashboard Week - Day 3

Nov 23, 2022 Carol Mhlanga | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I was looking forward to dashboard week because it meant the end of training and also meant I could put what I have learnt into practice.

Dashboard Week: Big Data Set

Nov 23, 2022 Lauren Halliwell | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today we were challenged with creating a dashboard using a dataset containing 42,500 apartments and 250,000 rooms. We were given no direction to follow, only that we had to use this data set.

DS34: Dashboard Week Day 2

Nov 23, 2022 Lorna Brown | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Here we go again, another 4 months have flown by and DS34 are onto Dashboard week. Admittedly my favourite week of all! Yesterday they had their Day 1 challenge which was to build a dashboard that was accessibility friendly. Have a look at their b...

#MakeoverMonday 2022 Week 47 - Worldwide Railroad Infrastructure Quality...

Nov 22, 2022 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

This week was a fairly simple data set. Rankings by year by country for a single measure. One thing I found tough to get my head around was the 1-7 scale of the quality ratings. I converted the values to a 1-10 scale instead.I had limited time for...

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How to Create a Full Year Calendar Heatmap in Tableau

Nov 22, 2022 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

Calendar heatmaps are a great way to visualize time-series data over an entire calendar year. Individual days are shaded on a light-to-dark gradient based on a measure that has been added to the visualization.Creating a heatmap for a single month ...

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What Did It Take To Get Into DS36?

Nov 22, 2022 Ruth Amarteifio | www.thedataschool.co.uk

DS36 have now completed 2 weeks of their 4 month training period, so it’s a great time to look at what it took for them to get into The Data School.

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Scaffolding

Nov 22, 2022 Tara Robinson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Sometimes data analysis is needed for row of data which has no data in. Scaffolding is therefore used to fill in the gaps so a more complete picture is shown. This blog shows three ways on how to do scaffolding.

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How to change the name and icon of your macro tool in Alteryx

Nov 22, 2022 Keren Aharon | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If you have ever saved a macro file in alteryx with an incorrect or unclear name, it can make the use of this macro confusing for future use. To change the name of the macro click on the canvas and go to the configuration pane in the ‘meta info’ tab.

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How to Play Games in Alteryx

Nov 22, 2022 Eamonn Woodham | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Alteryx is a powerful piece of software and is infinitely useful as a data analyst, the ability to bend and transform data at your fingertips is truly powerful and you will use it a lot in the Data School.

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How To Manually Adjust the Moving Average Value With a Parameter in Tabl...

Nov 22, 2022 Keren Aharon | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Often you need to add a moving average to your line chart in tableau. Sometimes it can be useful to make the moving average adjustable for the user to change.

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Dynamic Default Date Parameters: no time like the present

Nov 22, 2022 Caitlin Walsh | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A simple feature I only recently became aware of: using a calculated field to set the default parameter value of a workbook. In this example, we can use dynamic date calculations to set a relevant parameter date that will be future-proof.

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Dashboard Week Day Two: Dynamic Zone Visibility

Nov 22, 2022 Finn Charlton | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This is my new favourite feature in Tableau, here’s how I used it today.

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Dashboard Week: Day 2 - Accessibility Day!

Nov 22, 2022 Arnold Quarcoo | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A blog on the 2nd day of dashboard week.

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Dashboard Week - Day 2 - Accessibility

Nov 22, 2022 Cammy Phillips | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tips on increasing the accessibility of your dashboard to people with dyscalculia, colourblindness and Keyboard only users

Dashboard Week: Day 2

Nov 22, 2022 Ben Winsey | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Dashboard Week: Day 2

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Dashboard Week - Day 1 - Accessibility

Nov 22, 2022 Cammy Phillips | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today was day one of accessibility week. We were tasked with creating a dashboard with the vision of it being accessible to people with additional needs when interacting with a dashboard. Following is some tips to consider to make your dashboard m...

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Dashboard Week: Accessibility

Nov 22, 2022 Lauren Halliwell | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today was day 1 of dashboard week and our brief was to pick an area of accessibility to build a dashboard to give the UK public better (and more accessible) access to climate change data.

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Filter to Keep Only Values with Multiple Records in Tableau

Nov 22, 2022 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Do you want to keep all data associated with a value which has multiple records in a data set? Maybe it’s how many students attended multiple schools, how many patients visited a hospital multiple times or how many customers made multiple purchases.

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A Definitive Guide to Creating Python UDTFs Directly within the Snowflak...

Nov 22, 2022 Chris Hastie | interworks.com

Snowpark for Python is the name for the new Python functionality integration that Snowflake has recently developed. At the Snowflake Summit in June 2022, Snowpark for Python was officially released into Public Preview, which means anybody is able ...

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Tips for #MakeoverMonday

Nov 21, 2022 Keren Aharon | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Having to analyse and improve a data visualisation in 1 hour is overwhelming and hard to know where to start. Here are some key factors to consider when participating in a Makeover Monday.

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How to Do Better Sheet Swapping with Tableau’s Dynamic Zone Visibility

Nov 21, 2022 Ryan Sleeper | playfairdata.com

Tableau’s “Dynamic Zone Visibility” – released with version 2022.3 – promises to be a game changer when it comes to…The post How to Do Better Sheet Swapping with Tableau’s Dynamic Zone Visibility appeared first on Playfair Data.

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Building My Tableau Journey

Nov 21, 2022 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

In a break from the norm, this isn’t a #WorkoutWednesday solution guide, but it is a solution guide of sorts. This time I’m going to share how I put together the core section of my “My Tableau Journey” viz. This is a viz I put together to introduc...

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How can you improve your visualisation?

Nov 20, 2022 Archie Boswell | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In my application I included lots of graphs, i tried to cover as many points as i could and finally filled it with as much text explaining my detailed findings! But why wasnt it the best?

Preparation and data cleansing on Alteryx

Nov 18, 2022 Lucas Krokatsis | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Last Friday, we were tasked with our first presentation, which was to give a short lesson or demonstration on some of the key skills we garnered from our first week in The Data School. I was assigned to give a presentation on data cleaning and pre...

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