Donut Charts Images Tableau

Nov 13, 2024 Maria Maske | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Heute dreht sich alles um den Donut. Konkret gesagt darum, wie ihr einen Donut-Diagramm mit einem Icon in der Mitte in Tableau erstellen könnt.

Design,TableauTextTables

SLOPE CHARTS

Nov 12, 2024 Otaro Namakwa | www.thedataschool.co.uk

SLOPE CHARTS

Data,BlogRoundup,Tableau,ThoughtSpot

SEASONALITY

Nov 12, 2024 Otaro Namakwa | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Last week, we worked on a client project whose area of focus is to help companies optimize their procurement management in a cost effective and success-oriented way. The client needed us to visualize prepared offers for electricity and gas tariffs...

Data,BlogRoundup,Tableau,ThoughtSpot

How to create a Radial Bar Chart

Nov 12, 2024 Maria Maske | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Heute möchte ich mit Euch eine ganz besondere Form des Balken-Diagramms teilen, die ganz bestimmt ein Blickfang auf Euren Dashboard sein wird: das Radial Bar Chart.

Data,BlogRoundup,Tableau,ThoughtSpot

InterWorks at Snowflake World Tour Sydney

Nov 12, 2024 Giovanna Brisotti | interworks.com

Today, we’re looking back on a fantastic day at the Snowflake World Tour in Sydney on October 29. The event kicked off with an inspiring opening keynote and included various breakout sessions covering topics like data foundations, AI acceleration ...

News,Events,Snowflake,Sydney

WOW2024 W46 DataFam Europe Live

Nov 11, 2024 Lorna Brown | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Introduction

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N Last Months Filter Tableau

Nov 11, 2024 Maria Maske | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Eine der essenziellen Funktionen von Tableau ist es Daten nach den Wünschen des Users zu filtern. Jedoch sind einige Filter-Möglichkeiten einfacher als andere in Tableau darzustellen. Habt ihr Euch zum Beispiel schon mal gefragt, wie ihr nicht nur...

Data,BlogRoundup,Tableau,ThoughtSpot

How to - Jitter Plot and how to spot outliers in a sea of data

Nov 11, 2024 Davy Ly | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Jitter plots are a powerful tool for identifying outliers, especially when analyzing data with overlapping points. By spreading data points slightly, jittering helps reveal hidden clusters and stand-out values that usually go unnoticed. In this tu...

Data,BlogRoundup,Tableau,ThoughtSpot

Crush the Alteryx Core Exam A Pep Talk for Success

Nov 11, 2024 Davy Ly | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In my Data School training, certifications are a key part of proving our skills to clients. Obtaining those certifications builds trust, showing clients we’re knowledgeable in the tools we use. The first certification we had to achieve was the Alt...

Data,BlogRoundup,Tableau,ThoughtSpot

Embedding Social Media in Tableau Part 2

Nov 11, 2024 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

InMarch, 2023, I wrote a blog about embeddingsocial media in Tableau. In that post, I covered embedding Instagram, LinkedIn,Facebook, and Twitter posts, as well as Twitter feeds. Since then, I’vediscovered ways to embed additional social media con...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2024,Annotations,deselectmarks,DynamicZoneVisibility,filteractions,Floating,MeasureNames,ParameterActions,roundedborder,Transparency,Week45

How to Import Custom Colours in Tableau

Nov 10, 2024 Dan Booth | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I have recently finished my first personal project since joining the Data School. My project involved creating a dashboard which analysed the success of new Manchester United Manager, Ruben Amorim, at his previous club Sporting Lisbon.

Data,BlogRoundup,Tableau,ThoughtSpot

How To - Tableau Desktop Map Layers

Nov 10, 2024 Davy Ly | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Before Tableau introduced map layers, using dual-axis maps was a common workaround to simulate a multi-layered effect and combining diverse information in one view. However, this method was limited to only two layers. With the introduction of map ...

Data,BlogRoundup,Tableau,ThoughtSpot

How Storytelling helped me land this job Part1

Nov 10, 2024 Davy Ly | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When I was preparing for the final Data School interview, I knew I would face a tough challenge. Part of the interview process involved building a Tableau dashboard with a new dataset. The task was both exciting and nerve wracking, especially sinc...

Data,BlogRoundup,Tableau,ThoughtSpot

JSON Parse Tool in Alteryx 2024.2

Nov 8, 2024 Le Luu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

At the time that I am writing this blog, Alteryx Designer just updated the latest version to 2024.2. If you haven’t updated it yet, click on this link to download and update Alteryx Designer to the latest version. Many updated features in this lat...

AuthorExperience,Engineering,Intermediate,TableauDesktop,TipsTricks

InterWorks Blog Roundup October 2024

Nov 8, 2024 Mark Cordeiro | interworks.com

In the newsletter I usually send out at the end of the month for the blog (which you can subscribe to via the banner at the bottom of the page), I filled the intro with Halloween-themed puns that, quite frankly, were frighteningly spooktacular. I ...

Data,BlogRoundup,Tableau,ThoughtSpot

Can you switch a dashboard theme

Nov 8, 2024 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

This week’s #WOW2024 challenge was a guest post by Tomoki Goda. The main focus of the challenge was to be able to switch between light and dark mode, but there’s so much more going on, this blog could take a while! I also have to admit, I didn’t m...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2024,Annotations,deselectmarks,DynamicZoneVisibility,filteractions,Floating,MeasureNames,ParameterActions,roundedborder,Transparency,Week45

Easy way to add more analytical context to your KPIs

Nov 7, 2024 Niklas Kubus | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When we are working on making dashboards as impactful as possible, to truely support the executives making well thought out descicions in a faster and more precise manner, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) play an important role. They tell a bigge...

AuthorExperience,Engineering,Intermediate,TableauDesktop,TipsTricks

Reflections On My First Month At The Data School

Nov 6, 2024 Priya Kondola | www.thedataschool.co.uk

They warn you on your first day of the data school that it goes by very quickly. I now understand what they mean as the first month of training has flown by. From barely knowing anything about dashboards apart from what I learnt throughout my appl...

AuthorExperience,Engineering,Intermediate,TableauDesktop,TipsTricks

Order of operations in Tableau

Nov 6, 2024 Dan Booth | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Understanding the order of operations in Tableau is crucial for ensuring that data is processed and visualised accurately. This blog will demonstrate the importance of this through the use of context filters. 

AuthorExperience,Engineering,Intermediate,TableauDesktop,TipsTricks

What did it take to get into DSDE8

Nov 5, 2024 Peter Gamble-Beresford | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Due to an unexpectedly eventful summer, this one is a little late! As I type DSDE8 are hard at work on a particularly interesting client project, involving lots of spatial data, the results of which have real-world physical implications in a large...

AuthorExperience,Engineering,Intermediate,TableauDesktop,TipsTricks

Extracting Data from API and Parse JSON in Tableau Desktop - Part 2

Nov 5, 2024 Le Luu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In the first part, I introduced what is API and its process. I also walked through some main points about the JSON structure, extracting data from API in Python, and in Tableau Desktop with TabPy. However, the JSON structure in the first blog is s...

AuthorExperience,Engineering,Intermediate,TableauDesktop,TipsTricks

Creating Buttons in Tableau to Control Dynamic Zone Visibility

Nov 5, 2024 Salome Grasland | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Enhance your Tableau dashboards with interactive buttons to toggle between views using Dynamic Zone Visibility and custom shapes.

AuthorExperience,Engineering,Intermediate,TableauDesktop,TipsTricks

How to Mask Survey Results in Tableau

Nov 4, 2024 Felicia Styer | playfairdata.com

Anonymous survey analysis has one key challenge – how do we incorporate categorical and demographic information while protecting the participant’s…The post How to Mask Survey Results in Tableau appeared first on Playfair Data.

AuthorExperience,Engineering,Intermediate,TableauDesktop,TipsTricks

Can you join two spatial files to find the intersection

Nov 4, 2024 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

It was Kyle’s turn to set the challenge this week. Like him, I don’t have a need to use map / spatial data much, so whenever there’s a WOW challenge involving them it always makes me think a bit harder (and usually refer to some documentation). Co...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2024,Bar,DashboardActions,filteractions,Intersects,Map,MapLayers,SpatialFiles,SpatialJoin,Week44

Whats the Difference between Arrays and Structs

Nov 1, 2024 Edward Hayter | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Arrays and structs are essential for understanding data organization in BigQuery. This blog will clarify what each of these structures is, how to identify them in BigQuery, and when to use them in table structures.

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Extracting Data from API and Parse JSON in Tableau Desktop - Part 1

Nov 1, 2024 Le Luu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

API stands for Application Programming Interface. According to the Postman page, API is a set of protocols where different software components communicate and transfer data. The client will send the request when they need to get the data. Then, de...

LevelofDetail

Tableau FIXED LODs Not Filtering Dimension and Context Filters

Oct 30, 2024 Ollie Linley | onenumber.biz

FIXED LODs are wonderful because they allow us to aggregate our measures at a chosen Dimension level, regardless of the level of detail of the worksheet. However, they aren’t affected by Dimension Filters, because they’re calculated before Dimensi...

LevelofDetail

Enumerated and Computed Sets Whats the Difference

Oct 30, 2024 Kirsty Wall | interworks.com

This blog topic was born out of a training course I delivered which always brings new questions and observations. No matter how often I do them, I’m always learning something myself. It concerns the ability to expose sets once they been created to...

Data,dashboards,sets

Tag To Protect Keep Your Data Safe with Object Tagging in Snowflake

Oct 29, 2024 Barbara Hartmann | interworks.com

As data breaches and cyber threads continue to rise, securing your data has become a top priority for businesses and organisations across all industries. Whether you want to safeguard sensitive customer data, protect your intellectual property or ...

Data,Governance,security,Snowflake

Multi-Filtering Buttons for Tables and Lists

Oct 28, 2024 Lindsay Betzendahl | vizzendata.com

Throughout my years working in data visualization, I have experienced an intriguing evolution. When I started using Tableau 10 yearsContinue reading

Tableau,Tutorial,Buttons,Design,HowTo,Parameteractions,TablesandLists

Z Scores

Oct 28, 2024 Joe O'Connor | www.thedataschool.co.uk

An introduction to Z scores

Understanding Descriptive Statistics Mean Median Mode and the Difference...

Oct 28, 2024 Thomas Duong | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Descriptive statistics provide essential tools to summarise and describe the main features of data. When dealing with data, it is crucial to understand key concepts like mean, median, and mode. Another important aspect is knowing when to use an av...

Trendlines

Oct 28, 2024 Eden Thiede-Palmer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Trend Lines and Linear Regressions

An introduction to normal distributions

Oct 28, 2024 Kealan Daly | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Many things in nature abide by what we call a normal, or Gaussian distribution. The general trends by which normal distributions follow involve most of a population adhering to some average, or mean, and then fewer of the population fitting into g...

A Dexter Viz Curvy Radar Template

Oct 28, 2024 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

Today, I’m honored to becollaborating on a post with the inimitable Lisa Trescott. If you don’t knowLisa, then where have you been? She’s a Tableau Visionary, Tableau Ambassador,and an IronViz Global Champion. She’s also incredibly fun. For exampl...

GuestPost,How-To,PopCulture,Tableau,Templates

Can you show total sales and filtered sales in the same view

Oct 27, 2024 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

A guest post this week from Hannah Bartholomew asked us to show a filtered and unfiltered view of data in the same viz. Building the calculations We need to show the total sales and the total sales by Sub-Category which won’t be impacted by any fi...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2024,DualAxis,Filtering,FIXEDLOD,parameter,Week43

How to Make Sensational Spider Charts in Tableau

Oct 23, 2024 Dan Bunker | playfairdata.com

Spider charts, also known as radar charts, are an engaging and perhaps underutilized chart for visual analytics. While this advanced…The post How to Make Sensational Spider Charts in Tableau appeared first on Playfair Data.

Advanced,ChartTypes,Engineering,TableauDesktop

Remove automated highlighting in Tableau

Oct 22, 2024 Maria Maske | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Have you ever wondered whether it is possible to switch off automatic highlighting in Tableau?

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

Put Good In Get Good Out How to use Tableau Prep for Tableau Pulse

Oct 22, 2024 Kate Crawford | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau Pulse insights are enhanced by AI. But, is your data ready for Tableau AI? In this post, I’ll share tips and Tableau Prep steps for Tableau Pulse Metrics.

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

Calendar View - Nice overview

Oct 22, 2024 Marcus Oberdiek | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Everyone knows the calendar view and is familiar with reading it. Birthdays, vacations and other important dates were entered by hand. With this view, it is also very easy and clear to display data. And this is how you can create a calendar view.

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

Lets play with Tableau Extensions

Oct 21, 2024 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Hot of the press with the release of 2024.3, Sean set this challenge to focus on the ability to use table extensions. As a result you will need at least v2024.3 of Tableau Desktop or Tableau Desktop Public installed. At the point of writing, this ...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2024,DashboardActions,filteractions,Scatter,Table,TableExtension,VizExtension,Week42

Choosing between Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud

Oct 19, 2024 Takhmina Pirmahmadova | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Authorized Tableau users can use Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud to share and collaborate. The difference between the two platforms may not be so obvious to new users and organizations that consider implementing Tableau. This blog provides an ove...

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

Preattentive Attributes Comparison

Oct 19, 2024 Megan Spengler | playfairdata.com

Preattentive attributes are something that you most likely encounter unintentionally every day, whether you are browsing the web, navigating an…The post Preattentive Attributes Comparison appeared first on Playfair Data.

Fundamentals,Strategy,TipsTricks,UserExperience

W2 Top Tips for Tableau

Oct 18, 2024 Priya Kondola | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week, we began introductions to Tableau desktop. This was the topic I was most excited about learning as we had previously used Tableau in our applications. However, it was extremely useful to start from scratch and learn how I could have sav...

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

My journey to The Data School London as a career changer

Oct 18, 2024 Dominic Brady | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I would say that my journey to the Data School (as a career changer from teaching and performing music) was unusual, except everyone here seems to have a different background! Still, mine had its ups and downs, so I thought it was worth sharing. I...

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy