dbt at Data Council 2025 Whats New

May 8, 2025 Jack Hulbert | interworks.com

Recently, my colleagues and I attended Data Council in Oakland, California, where discussions about data infrastructure, AI integration and seminal data engineering patterns dominated the technical talks. Among the most impactful sessions was Elia...

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Setup for a Composer Package

May 8, 2025 Justin Lyons | interworks.com

Setting Up the Environment Let’s build a thing! Where to start? I need an app that has my working composer project installed. That way I can test the functionality as I build it. There’s several ways to build a local development environment. I per...

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ber meinen ersten Monat bei The Information Lab

May 7, 2025 Mariia Sapsai | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Was ich sofort sagen kann: Vergiss niemals, wo du bist und welche Ziele du hast!

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Relationships in Power BI verstehen und anwenden

May 7, 2025 Gabriela Scherbinek | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Relationships, oder Beziehungen, verbinden Tabellen in Power BI zu einem Datenmodell, damit man Daten aus mehreren Tabellen gemeinsam auswerten kann ohne diese in ein und dieselbe Tabelle ziehen zu müssen. Sie funktionieren wie Brücken oder Autoba...

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Python cant be located... What to do

May 7, 2025 Archie Boswell | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Let me set the scene,You’re standing in Terminal 5, suncream packed and ready to soak up the Spanish sun, when suddenly, panic hits. Where’s the snake? Somehow, you’ve lost track of your pet python, and the trip is in jeopardy.

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Making the Most of Limited Space in Tableau Dynamic Zone Visibility

May 7, 2025 Victor Yuan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A simple but powerful feature that lets you make your dashboards more interactive whilst being less cluttered, all without sacrificing any of your key insights.

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How to add a chart in the Tooltip

May 7, 2025 Stephan Christner | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today I want to show you how to add a chart to the Tooltip Menu!

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Buttons in PowerBI

May 7, 2025 Kieran Joymungul | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week we were introduced to PowerBI and some of the features it hosts. This experience has shown a few pro’s that make the software stand out - mainly the buttons.

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Stacked Bar Chart With Multiple Label Colors in Tableau

May 7, 2025 Ollie Linley | onenumber.biz

Have you ever tried to manually change the label color for different segments of your stacked bar chart? It’s really tricky! While Tableau has a default color which can be white, black, or white and black alternating, you can’t dictate how that sh...

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Introduction to Building a Composer Package

May 7, 2025 Justin Lyons | interworks.com

One of the neatest things about humanity is how we lean on each other’s creativity and innovation. When we make something new, we don’t start completely from scratch. Even without a recipe, we have knowledge and tools from our predecessors that ma...

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Wie erstelle ich einen Navigations-Button in Tableau

May 6, 2025 Stella-Sophie Bukowski | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Um zu erklären, wie du interaktive Buttons in Tableau erstellen kannst, schauen wir uns das Ganze an einem Beispiel an. Dazu habe ich das folgende Design skizziert, das uns als Bauplan dienen soll.

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What did it take to get into DSDE10

May 6, 2025 Peter Gamble-Beresford | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I’m incredibly proud to say my sixth, yes SIXTH, cohort here in Hamburg is well under way with their training. After an impressive start, they are coping well with the new information, new tasks, and new tools being thrown at them every day during...

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PowerBI - Using Bookmarks for Ascending Descending Sorts

May 6, 2025 Louis Phipps | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Last week we dived into PowerBI and one aspect that I found particularly useful was the utilisation of bookmarks. Bookmarks can be used to create different views of charts, and this blog will explain how to use them specifically for sorting.

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Performance Tips for Tableau Dashboards

May 6, 2025 Salome Grasland | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Use Extracts Instead of Live Connections

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Dashboards everywhere 1

May 6, 2025 Svetlana Brazukevich | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When I started working with dashboards on a daily basis, I noticed that dashboards surrounded me. And it’s not a hallucination!

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Updating Makeover Monday

May 5, 2025 Birthe Claussen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Our first Makeover Monday was about Global Petownership in different countries. We got some feedback given from a paired partner from the UK cohort and had to try to implement it.

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My Makeover Monday Experience

May 5, 2025 Stella-Sophie Bukowski | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Last week, we had our second Makeover Monday. We were provided with the following chart and asked to improve it.

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Makeover Monday week 2

May 5, 2025 Svetlana Brazukevich | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I am here to tell you about our “double” Makeover Monday 😁

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MakeoverMonday und die Feedback Umsetzung

May 5, 2025 Stephan Christner | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Wir haben ein MakeoverMonday gemacht und unser Feedback implementiert. Letzte Woche haben wir die Aufgabe bekommen ein MakeoverMonday zu folgender Visualisierung zu machen:

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MakeoverMonday Experience

May 5, 2025 Gabriela Scherbinek | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today we were given the task of implementing the feedback that we’ve received from our last MakeoverMonday into our first version of the dashboard.I was paired up with Hannah from DS50 UK and we gave each other feedback. She gave me some great ide...

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Help I accidentally deleted my Headers in Tableau on purpose but I want ...

May 5, 2025 Birthe Claussen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Well this is going to be a short first entry, but nonetheless an important one. It is something I came across several times myself and some of my cohort members as well.

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About my Makeover Monday

May 5, 2025 Mariia Sapsai | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today was Makeover Monday 2.0 about ‘Pet ownership internationally’. Our task was to improve this visualization.

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InterWorks Blog Roundup April 2025

May 5, 2025 Mark Cordeiro | interworks.com

Hey there, blog readers! Got a short and sweet blog roundup for you this month. We spent a lot of time getting ready for Tableau Conference this month, which was a fantastic time. Now that it’s out of the way, though, we’re kicking our blog…The po...

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Tableau Next Semantic Layer Data Cloud

May 2, 2025 Robbin Vernooij | www.thedataschool.co.uk

An overview of Tableau Next and what it can mean for your role and organisation based on my testing and experience from the Tableau Conference 2025.

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How to Count the Number of Unique Rows for a field in Power Query

May 2, 2025 Hannah Norfolk | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hi all! This week we have gotten stuck in with Power Query and Power BI, where we approached a bit of a roadblock in Power Query - learning how to count the number of distinct values as an aggregate for a given field!

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Can you filter or drill to details

May 2, 2025 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Sean set this week’s challenge to give an alternative solution to displaying a table of details rather than the traditional ‘pancake table’ (his words not mine 🙂 ). The main crux of the challenge relates to the dashboard actions and interactivity,...

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DS50s First Day with DAX - What Weve Learnt

May 1, 2025 Ollie Ross Russell | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today was our first proper session working with DAX (Data Analysis eXpressions) in Power BI. We focused on building confidence with the basics - working through text, date, logical, and maths functions to get a feel for how DAX can help us shape a...

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Devs on Stage Shines at Tableau Conference 2025

May 1, 2025 Ben Bausili | interworks.com

Tableau Conference 2025 in San Diego has come and gone! To anyone who attended or were watching from afar, it was clear this conference was about vision of the future – AI-infused features, AI agents and the introduction of the new Tableau Next pl...

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What did it take to get into DSNY9

Apr 30, 2025 Mel Niere | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Meet the newest members of Cohort 9 at The Data School New York!

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Teds Tutorials 001 - Box Plot with outliers

Apr 30, 2025 Ted Evans | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hello everybody, welcome to Ted’s Tutorials, where I will be weekly releasing some tips and tricks I’ve learnt or found useful throughout my experience with a range of different software. 

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Mein erster Tag in der Data School

Apr 30, 2025 Stephan Christner | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Wie war mein erste Tag in der Data School bei The Information Lab Deutschland? - im informativen und persönlichen Stil zusammengefasst.

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Enhance your visualisations with statistics

Apr 30, 2025 Kieran Joymungul | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog explores a few statistical models you can easily use to give your analysis/visualisations the edge it needs to stand out.

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Diving into Tableau Prep

Apr 30, 2025 Svetlana Brazukevich | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In my previous role, I had to deal with data cleaning and preparation using SQL. It was the only way available in the company and I didn’t question it much. When I started working on my own projects, I found out the main weakness of this approach ...

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Adding More Accessible Color Palettes to Tableau

Apr 30, 2025 Miles Cumiskey | www.thedataschool.co.uk

All of the color blind simulations done via the Coblis - Color BLIndness Simulator.

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My First Takeaway from The Data School Learning to Plan Before You Build

Apr 29, 2025 Ollie Ross Russell | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I’d spent hours building visualisations for my application to The Data School - wrestling messy Excel files, watching hours of YouTube tutorials and figuring things out through trial and error on Tableau. Within just a few days here, I realised ho...

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Keep Calm and Query On An Intro to SQL

Apr 29, 2025 Amy Peacham | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What is SQL?

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How To Create A Radial Chart In Tableau

Apr 29, 2025 Miffy Allen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For this blog I’m going to create a radial chart displaying the top 10 films from IMDb and their IMDb scores:

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What is Data Cleaning

Apr 28, 2025 Hannah Norfolk | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hi everyone, I’m Hannah, an up-and-coming data consultant from cohort 50! This is my first blog of (hopefully) many at The Data School, where I hope to answer a question that’s been sitting on my mind since I was in the process of applying – what ...

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What did it take to get into DS50

Apr 28, 2025 Lorna Brown | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A monument time at the Data School as we hired for our 50th Cohort! DS50 started early April, let’s take a look at their initial application and final visualisations that got them into this cohort.

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First Tableau Conference Experience Key Takeaways Highlights and Tips fo...

Apr 28, 2025 Jose De La Rosa | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Going to the Tableau Conference for the first time was such an incredible experience. As someone who works in Tableau every day, I heard stories about how exciting TC is, but nothing compares to being there in person. One of the things I loved mos...

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Building a Dashboard Template in Tableau

Apr 28, 2025 Stella-Sophie Bukowski | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Creating dashboards in Tableau is fun, but rebuilding the same or a similar layout from scratch every time can get a bit annoying. That’s what dashboard templates are great for—they let you reuse the same structure across different projects, so yo...

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How I Went from Future Physician to Analytics Consultant

Apr 28, 2025 Haleigh Schwartz | interworks.com

I’m Haleigh Schwartz, one of the new hires recently brought on to InterWorks as an analytics consultant. The title of this blog is not one I ever thought I’d claim myself, and is frankly something I’m still getting used to — you’ll find out why…Th...

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Can you swap measures

Apr 27, 2025 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

It’s back to the EFL this week for my #WOW challenge. Once again I’ve tried to provide a multi-level challenge – a version that uses some core skills and features, and a version that just pushes the display a bit further, just for fun. I’ll start ...

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Reflections on the application process

Apr 25, 2025 Eliza Hokanson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Even though DSNY9 is only three weeks into our training, the meet and greet for DSNY10 is already coming up. As folks are getting ready to apply, I thought I’d put together a few things I wish I’d known before applying or that helped me during the...

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Objectives Key Results fr Anfnger

Apr 24, 2025 Gabriela Scherbinek | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Objectives & Key Results, auch kurz OKR - was ist das eigentlich? Nicht jeder weiß, was das bedeutet, und viele haben den Begriff noch nie gehört. Führt man sich die deutsche Übersetzung vor Augen – Ziele und Schlüsselergebnisse – ahnt man in ...

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