How to Enable Tableau Pulse and Ensure a Successful Launch

Jun 10, 2024 Ethan Lang | playfairdata.com

Tableau Pulse has created a lot of buzz within the Tableau community. Tableau developers around the world are celebrating because…The post How to Enable Tableau Pulse and Ensure a Successful Launch appeared first on Playfair Data.

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400th Blog A Brief History of the Flerlage Twins

Jun 10, 2024 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 This is our 400th blogpost on the Flerlage Twins website and we thought we’d celebrate by sharing abrief history of the website and our most popular and favorite posts. Ken’s HistoryI started using Tableau back in Aprilof 2016. I had worked in an...

The Profit Ratio Problem

Jun 8, 2024 Yan Peng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this post, I will address a type of KPI that requires caution when it comes to aggregation. I call it the “profit ratio” problem. In the context of the standard Superstore data set, the sum is normally calculated for KPIs like sales and profit ...

Ein Anwendungsfall fr die Kombination vom Satz und LOD-Ausdrcken in Tabl...

Jun 8, 2024 Yan Peng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In Tableau kann man Sätze verwenden, um eine Teilmenge von Daten unter einer bestimmten Bedingung zu erstellen. Man umgeht dabei nicht nur komplexe Berechnungen, sondern der erstellte Satz gestaltet sich auch dynamisch. Beispielsweise möchte man i...

Power BI Service vs. Power BI Desktop

Jun 7, 2024 Juan Carlos Guzman | playfairdata.com

What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the words, “Power BI”? Is it Power BI Desktop or…The post Power BI Service vs. Power BI Desktop appeared first on Playfair Data.

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IT Sales Simplified Where To Start

Jun 7, 2024 InterWorks | interworks.com

Starting off this limited run mini-series in the Podcast Your Data lineup, Content Manager Garrett Sauls and Sales Intern Genna Callahan sit down to talk through Genna’s experience starting her journey into IT Sales and how others can follow her p...

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Can you manually overwrite a value in a table

Jun 7, 2024 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

For this week’s challenge, Erica wanted us to be able to set a discount value for a Sub-Category which once set, overwrote the value displayed in the table and applied the discount to the other visuals. She added an additional complexity to displa...

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Top 5 dashboard design tools

Jun 6, 2024 Eugenia Losada Gamst | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Its great to have a useful dashboard but its even better to have a useful and cool looking dashboard, so I will be sharing the top 5 tools I use to either remove some of the decision fatigue from dashboard designing or that I use to elevate design...

How to Avoid Scroll Bar in Tableau

Jun 6, 2024 Sayd Abdul Tawab Hussainy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

To improve the user experience in Tableau by avoiding a scroll bar, you can implement a solution where users can select the number of bars to display, and the rest are grouped into an “Others” category. Here’s a step-by-step guide to achieve this:

Data is a piece of cake

Jun 6, 2024 Thiago Santos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

On the first day at The Data School London, the team was asked: What is data? The formal answer is: “According to The Oxford Learner’s Dictionary (2021), data are facts or information, especially when examined and used to find out things or to mak...

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To The Point Make a Custom Parameter Select with a Search Bar in Tableau...

Jun 5, 2024 Jeffrey Brian Thompson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Here is a link to a dashboard which uses this technique.

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How to Create a Monthly Timesheet in Tableau

Jun 5, 2024 Sayd Abdul Tawab Hussainy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Objective:

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How to Publish a Tableau Dashboard

Jun 5, 2024 Ollie Linley | onenumber.biz

Publishing a Tableau dashboard is crucial part of the dashboard-building process. This is often a step that comes with a sense of accomplishment as we begin sharing our work with others.

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Find Red Flags in Your Data in ONLY 5 MINUTES with Control Charts

Jun 4, 2024 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

If you like this video, you’ll love learning from me 4 hours per week in Next-Level Tableau. Join here.Control charts are one of the best charts you can use for identifying outliers in a series of measurement. So what are they?Control charts are u...

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What is data

Jun 4, 2024 Tim Jeffries | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A question that seems like it should be easy to answer, but isn’t necessarily, is just what is data? ‘Numbers’ may be the first thing that leaps to mind, and that’s often true, but there’s plenty out there that isn’t, as there are a lot of other t...

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To The Point Jitter Box Plots in Tableau Desktop

Jun 4, 2024 Jeffrey Brian Thompson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Jitter plots are useful to visualise lots of points in one chart. A jitter box plot, however, can be tough to align properly.

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Sometimes toddlers do know best.

Jun 4, 2024 Alfie King | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When learning about how to be a consultant on our second day at the Data school, we learned that sometimes toddlers do know best when it comes to getting the real answer to a question. Toddlers are also at the forefront of understanding the relati...

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MoM Comparison in Tableau with Parameters

Jun 4, 2024 Sayd Abdul Tawab Hussainy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Step 1: Create a duplicate of your date field. To prepare it for parameters, extract the exact month and year using the following syntax:

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How to Create Reasonable Mock Data in Alteryx

Jun 4, 2024 Jeffrey Brian Thompson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

It is useful to be able to create mock data. I wanted to create mock data so that I can share techniques that I learnt during client work, without using their data. The mock data will be for 2000m rowing.

Data,Slack,Snowflake

DS45 - The beginning of my TIL journey and reflecting on Day 2

Jun 4, 2024 Becky Wright | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Following a busy day of introductions and setting up on our first day, it was time to start our first day of training.

Data,Slack,Snowflake

Snowflake External Access Send Alerts to Slack

Jun 4, 2024 Chris Hastie | interworks.com

Recently, Snowflake released external access integrations into general availability. This allows Snowflake admins to create secure tunnels for Snowflake to communicate with the outside world, and can therefore communicate with external APIs to com...

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Turning Up Volume My Journey to Loving Blog Writing

Jun 3, 2024 Aileen Pfleiderer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog is about the book “working out loud” by John Stepper. My first impression is that this book is maybe not for me. So far, I’ve always found book titles like “Quiet people sell differently” by Andreas Hoffmann more appealing to me. But sin...

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Tableau Measure Names And Measure Values - How To Use Them

Jun 3, 2024 Bruno Gasparotto Ponne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What are measure names and measure values?

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How to Make a Heat Map in Tableau

Jun 3, 2024 Dan Bunker | playfairdata.com

A Tableau heat map is a chart type that allows users to quickly identify patterns in marks by using the…The post How to Make a Heat Map in Tableau appeared first on Playfair Data.

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Custom Dynamic Legends in Tableau

May 31, 2024 Lindsay Betzendahl | vizzendata.com

Data visualization tools provide many out-of-the-box elements that make our jobs as designers and developers easy. Tools like Tableau haveContinue reading

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Is looking like Matt Damon the key to Hollywood success Dashboard Week ...

May 31, 2024 Jeffrey Brian Thompson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog will walk through my final Dashboard Week project, where I made the following dashboard, which can be found on Tableau Public here:

Dashboard Week Final Day -Financial Success of Poorly Rated Films

May 31, 2024 Justinas Aleksiejus | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today, I was analyzing the financial success of poorly rated films using Tableau. The initial data was prepared, but I needed additional information on film budgets, opening week box office figures, and lifetime box office earnings. I chose top 20...

DS44 Go To The Movies Dashboard Week Finale

May 31, 2024 Alex McManus | www.thedataschool.co.uk

To end the final day of dashboard week, and consequently training, we were tasked with creating a dashboard from the Data + Movies challenge set by Tableau.

Can you make a page navigator

May 31, 2024 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Yoshi set this week’s challenge to build a page navigator, but there was so much more in it too, so this could be a bit lengthy 🙂 Note, I’m blogging based on the full ‘advanced’ challenge, to include an ‘apply all’ button as well. I built the foll...

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DS44 Dashboard Week Day 34

May 30, 2024 Ruth Amarteifio | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Lets go to the Movies

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Coloring the Ends of a Bar Chart in Tableau

May 29, 2024 Lindsay Betzendahl | vizzendata.com

The Theories We Learn As much as I’m a huge fan of color, I’m also an advocate for reducing itContinue reading

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SQL Data Preparation and Power BI Dashboard Week Day 2

May 29, 2024 Jeffrey Brian Thompson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today we were tasked to connect to and prepare data via SQL, and then produce a Power BI report around a topic of our choosing.

DataPrep,Fundamentals,PowerBI,TechnicalFeatures

Project Fire Rescue

May 29, 2024 Leonardo Ceballos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this project, I helped the London Fire Brigade create a dashboard to analyse their data. My main task was to provide insights into their Call Centre performance.

Data,ETL,Matillion,python,Snowflake

Lego Dashboard in PowerBI Dashboard Week Day 2

May 29, 2024 Anne Porcia Affi-Asamani | www.thedataschool.co.uk

On the second day of dashboard week DS44 were given a Lego themed dataset and tasked with creating a report in PowerBI. It involved preparing and retrieving tables from snowflake using SQL and focusing on a specific topic to narrow our scope for t...

DataPrep,Fundamentals,PowerBI,TechnicalFeatures

LEGO Dashboard - Dashboard Week Day 2

May 29, 2024 Alex Bernaciak | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today we were tasked with preparing a dashboard based on the LEGO data placed on a SQL server. The first challenge focused on identifying all the relevant tables and understanding how to relate them to pull up all the necessary data.

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Internes Projekt Fire Rescue

May 29, 2024 Rui Pedro Fernandes Ramos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Daten: In diesem Projekt wurden Feuerwehr Datensätze genutzt, welche in England gesammelt wurden. Der Datensatz beinhaltet Informationen zu verschiedenen Indikatoren wie:

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Inclusive Dashboards Small changes Big impact.

May 29, 2024 Justinas Aleksiejus | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As a data consultant, I often build dashboards to present complex data in a clear and understandable way. Today, I had the opportunity to create a dashboard with a focus on accessibility, a task that has reshaped my approach to data visualization.

Data,ETL,Matillion,python,Snowflake

Dashboard Week Day 2 - Using Snowflake SQL and PowerBI to Analyse Lego D...

May 29, 2024 Alex McManus | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today marked the second day of Dashboard Week for DS44. Our task was to use SQL on Snowflake to prepare data, followed by analysis and visualisation using Power BI.

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Dashboard Week Day 2 - SQL Power BI

May 29, 2024 Justinas Aleksiejus | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today we were tasked with using SQL on Snowflake to prepare our data before using Power BI to analyze the data.

DataPrep,Fundamentals,PowerBI,TechnicalFeatures

Dashboard Week - Day 2 - Lego

May 29, 2024 Alvaro Gonzalez | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For Day 2 of Dashboard Week, DS44 was assigned a task that required combining planning, SQL & Power BI skills to create a LEGO themed report. We had to scope and plan a dashboard based on a Snowflake schema, we then had to query the data we re...

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Dashboard Week - Day 1 - Accessibility

May 29, 2024 Alvaro Gonzalez | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Intro

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Dashboard Day 2 Lego Data

May 29, 2024 Jessica Robbin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For Day 2 of Dashboard Week, we were given a dataset on an inventory of LEGO pieces. The data was stored on Snowflake, and we needed to use SQL to prepare the data before building a dashboard in Power BI.

DataPrep,Fundamentals,PowerBI,TechnicalFeatures

DS44 Dashboard Week Day 2

May 29, 2024 Ruth Amarteifio | www.thedataschool.co.uk

It’s day 2 of dashboard week for DS44.

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DS44 Dashboard Week Day 1 Accessibility

May 29, 2024 Alex McManus | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As part of DS44’s dashboard week, we delved into the crucial topic of Accessibility. The task involved presenting a dashboard based on our learnings, specifically focusing on making it accessible to users who navigate exclusively with a keyboard. ...

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Accessible Dashboards in Tableau Dashboard Week Day 1

May 29, 2024 Anne Porcia Affi-Asamani | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week is dashboard week for DS44 and for day 1 we were tasked with creating a dashboard that is accessible for a specific user. My brief required me to recreate a dashboard that a user with dyscalculia would be able to use. Along with this I a...

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