Dashboard Week Finale Data TV - Exploring Breaking Bads World

Sep 27, 2024 Thiago Santos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The final challenge of Dashboard Week brought a thrilling opportunity: diving into the world of TV series using IMDb data. Our task was to uncover stories about the TV shows we love, using the Data + TV’s dashboard template filled with a vast rang...

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Dashboard Days 45 - DataTV

Sep 27, 2024 Becky Wright | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The Challenge

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Dynamic Dates in Power BI Video Tutorial

Sep 27, 2024 Paul Vincent | interworks.com

In the video below, I go over how to implement a dynamic date axis in Power BI, giving the user the ability to show daily, monthly and yearly views of their data. This is especially useful for trends and timelines for seeing how your data…The post...

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Can you use the Sankey Viz Extension

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

For this week’s challenge, Lorna set the relatively straightforward task of creating a Sankey using Tableau’s Viz Extension. The challenge may not have the complexity/nuances you might sometimes find, but at #WOW HQ, giving you the opportunity to ...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2024,Sankey,VizExtension,Week39

Stop Chart Disasters NOW With This Crucial Method

Sep 26, 2024 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

How many times have you seen a chart with so many colors that you can’t see one from the others? In this tip, I show you a simple technique for ensuring your users don’t make a mess of the charts you design. I call them spaghetti charts. ———-I’m A...

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What it took to get into DS46

Sep 26, 2024 Georgia Webb | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hi there, I am halfway through training in DS46 and wanted to share my story of how I got into the data school.

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Fast Filter with Power BI Bookmark

Sep 26, 2024 Marcus Oberdiek | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Power BI is a powerful tool for data visualization and analysis. One of the most useful features that Power BI offers is bookmarks. Bookmarks allow users to save specific views of their reports and retrieve them later. In this blog post, I will ex...

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Dynamic Zone Visibility

Sep 26, 2024 Liz Boika | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Pre- and Post- V 2022.3

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DS45 Dashboard Week Day 45 - Data TV

Sep 26, 2024 Jenny Martin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For the final 2 days, we’d like DS45 to take on a challenge set by Tableau themselves! Data + TV invites you to find data stories about the TV series you love, from IMDb data. When DS45 make a submission they’ll even get a free DataFam Discovery K...

The Art and Science of Product Management

Sep 26, 2024 Ben Bausili | interworks.com

In the realm of product management, two seminal works stand as contrasting pillars of wisdom: “Build” by Tony Fadell and “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. These books represent the balance of product management: the art of visionary design and long...

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Actions in Tableau vs. Power BI

Sep 26, 2024 Kirsty Wall | interworks.com

Great dashboards engage users and encourage exploration and discovery. A great way to do this is using interactivity. Let’s look into how to achieve this with different BI tools.  Interactivity in Tableau     In Tableau this can be achieved with d...

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Game on

Sep 25, 2024 Thiago Santos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 3 of Dashboard Week arrived, and the task at hand was diving into the #GamesNightViz community project, focusing on Street Fighter V. Like any project, it all starts with data discovery, and that’s exactly where I began.

Functions here or maybe not.

Sep 25, 2024 Tim Jeffries | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 3, and I’ve got a collection of scatter plots, all checking for correlations between pairs of five variables. Ideally, I’ll click on a point on one of them, and it’ll highlight the relevant point in the others as well, maybe fading out the res...

Dashboard Week - Day 3 - Street Fighter V

Sep 25, 2024 Becky Wright | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For day 3 of Dashboard week we were focussing on Street Fighter V character stats and usage. We needed to use Alteryx and Power BI.

Dashboard Week Day 3 - Street Fighter

Sep 25, 2024 Alfie King | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 3 was all about Street Fighter, but more specifically PowerBI and Alteryx Web Scraping.

DS45 Dashboard Week Day 3 - Street Fighter V Characters

Sep 25, 2024 Jenny Martin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today DS45 will be taking inspiration from Community Project #GamesNightViz. They’ll be focusing on Street Fighter V character stats and usage. This may be an unfamiliar subject for some, so doing research is encouraged! 

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Were All Equally Different Designing for Inclusivity

Sep 24, 2024 Thiago Santos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Dashboard Week, Day 2 - A Sales Dashboard for People with Dyscalculia

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Screen Readers and Tableau

Sep 24, 2024 Alfie King | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 2 of dashboard week was all about accessibility and the challenge I was given was to make a tableau dashboard be usable by someone who uses a screen reader. As the dashboard they had was not able to do this.

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How to switch your charts in Power BI with buttons

Sep 24, 2024 Maria Maske | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For one of my first Power BI reports I learned how to change my charts with the help of buttons. This is particularly useful if you want to enable the user to dynamically change a visualisation in the report. But how can this be done? I would like...

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Designed for all

Sep 24, 2024 Tim Jeffries | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Second day of Dashboard Week, and today was all about accessibility, with my task being to create a dashboard based on UK Covid data, accessible to as many people as possible. The data included case detections, hospital admissions and deaths, all ...

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Dashboard Week - Day 2 - Accessibility

Sep 24, 2024 Becky Wright | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Challenge

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Choosing Between Map and Filled Map in Power BI

Sep 24, 2024 Takhmina Pirmahmadova | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In Power BI, both Map and Filled Map visuals are used to represent geographical data, however, they have certain key differences.

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Simple Comparison of OLTP vs OLAP Systems

Sep 24, 2024 Jason Hoehn | interworks.com

Now more than ever, businesses are focused on investing time and capital into their data platform. There is so much work that goes into processing data to generate insights, yet in my experience, there seems to be some confusion surrounding this c...

Data,OLAP,OLTP

Setting Up Scheduled Data Extraction Using Python

Sep 23, 2024 Curtis Paterson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog outlines the process and key steps taken to set up a scheduled data extraction using Python and GitHub actions. I’ve done this for a personal project where I fetch data using the Reddit API, perform a sentiment analysis on the top posts ...

Plans for my Personal Project

Sep 23, 2024 Kealan Daly | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week I’ve started to compile the ideas I have for my personal project into a coherent plan, and I decided to focus on my favourite video game franchise of the past few years, the Legend of Zelda. Picking Tears of the Kingdom for reference, I ...

Personal Project Planning

Sep 23, 2024 Joe O'Connor | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A plan for a personal project during my time at the data school

Lesson learned check the data

Sep 23, 2024 Tim Jeffries | www.thedataschool.co.uk

First day of Dashboard Week today, starting bright and early being given a LOT of SQL data about football, 37 tables with one having data about tournaments (43), one about matches (1300), one about player lineups (16,500, one record per player) an...

Decoding U.S. Elections Understanding Swing States with Tableau and Fixe...

Sep 23, 2024 Thomas Duong | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As the U.S. elections approach, it’s clear that their outcome will have a significant impact not only on the country but also on the rest of the world. With that in mind, let’s take a closer look at seven key states that will likely decide the ele...

Dashboard week Day 1 - Football

Sep 23, 2024 Alfie King | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When the day started we were given data on the UEFA Women’s Euros from 2022. This data included many different tables. This caused me to immediately start thinking about all the possibilities of dashboards and analysis. I started off by thinking a...

Dashboard week Day 1

Sep 23, 2024 Thiago Santos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Play with your strengths:

Dashboard Week Day 1

Sep 23, 2024 Becky Wright | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today we had the task to perform some football analytics. We had access to json data parsed out in Snowflake, 36 tables in total, however we were advised to narrow our focus.

DS45 Dashboard Week Day 1 - StatsBomb Open Data

Sep 23, 2024 Jenny Martin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

It’s time for the beginning of dashboard week! DS45 won’t know what topic they’ll be covering each day or which data skills they’ll need to embrace. Luckily they’ve had 4 months of training to draw from! Some general rules that will apply each day...

Translating Values to Many Languages in Tableau Desktop

Sep 22, 2024 Le Luu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As a Tableau user, I usually set the default language for Tableau Desktop as English. However, in some cases, if a user works for a global company, many users worldwide can use the dashboard. The language could be a barrier for the user to interac...

Can you create multi-select parameters

Sep 20, 2024 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

For this week’s #WOW2024 challenge, Kyle simulated a real-world challenge he’s faced at work where he wanted the ability to select multiple parameters as he was sourcing data from multiple data sources, so using traditional filters didn’t work. Co...

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5 lessons learned while building a map-centric dashboard in Tableau

Sep 20, 2024 | www.prosvetova.com

It’s been a long time since I built a Tableau dashboard! My day-to-day work is now fully focused on data engineering, and I wanted to find a personal project to keep my Tableau skills sharp.Shortly after moving to the Netherlands 2 years ago, I su...

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From printHello World to Hello Data School

Sep 19, 2024 Davy Ly | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hi reader and welcome to my first blog post!

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CSV Files Default Properties

Sep 18, 2024 Maria Maske | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Kennt ihr das auch? Ihr wollt gerade mit der Bearbeitung eines Datensatzes starten und schon habt ihr das erste (technische) Problem?

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How to Union Tables in Tableau Prep

Sep 18, 2024 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

When you union tables in Tableau, you append two tables of data vertically. That means if you have two tables that are 1,000 rows each, the result of the union will be a single table that is 2,000 rows. Shared columns will align automatically, and...

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Data Connectivity Joins Unions and Relationships Explained

Sep 17, 2024 Niklas Kubus | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Introduction: Why Connecting Data Matters

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Native Snowflake Connector for Google Analytics

Sep 17, 2024 Steve Taylor | interworks.com

At InterWorks, we regularly build data pipelines for customers that include tools for migrating and transforming data such as Fivetran or Matillion. Tools such as these have connectors for many common sources of data to save us the hassle of build...

Data,Snowflake

IT Sales Simplified Recap and Lessons Learned

Sep 17, 2024 InterWorks | interworks.com

In this episode, InterWorks Content Manager Garrett Sauls sits down with IT Intern Genna Callahan to review what she learned over the course of her IT Internship, and how she feels about continuing her internship through through the fall.The post ...

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Whats behind Gregorian and ISO-8601 formats

Sep 16, 2024 Niklas Kubus | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I’m sure all Data Schoolers, that are not from the United States at least, have faced the same issue as me in Tableau regarding the week days at least once. I remember, I was trying to build a bar chart for a seasonal analysis. I wanted to see the...

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Formula 1 Telemetry Analysis in Python and Tableau

Sep 16, 2024 Dan Wade | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In [28]:

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InterWorks at CDAO Melbourne 2024

Sep 16, 2024 Giovanna Brisotti | interworks.com

InterWorks recently attended CDAO Melbourne 2024, a three day event that took place on September 2-4, 2024. Featuring keynote speakers, panel discussions and interactive workshops, the conference addressed topics like data governance, culture and ...

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New Viz The Seven Data TV

Sep 16, 2024 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

I love the Amazon Prime series The Boys. I mean, it’s gruesome and crude, but it’s fun. I just finished the fourth season (and now waiting for season 5 to be released in 2026 - argh) and I asked myself a question about the show. Well, ...

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