The Data School Blog
A Beginner’s Guide to Alteryx Designer
Alteryx Designer is an extremely powerful tool that can be used to complete a wide range of tasks, from data preparation and blending to predictive modelling. With over 200 tools built in and the ability to create your own tools it is incredibly versatile. However,...
DrillDown using Parameter Actions
Parameter actions are a very powerful way of interacting with the user. Users can dynamically change the value buy interacting with it. In this blog I am going to show how we can drill down using Parameter Actions. I am going to use the superstore data for this...
How to dynamically change dates on the view using Set Actions
set actions are used to let the user interact directly with the dashboard to control their analysis. Set Action uses a set to update a value based on user selection. I will show you how easily the set actions can be used in a timeline to select multiple dates for...
Enhancing Interactivity of Your Viz with Set Action
In my last blog, I talked about how to create sets in Tableau and use those sets to help you perform more in-depth analysis. In short, sets are a powerful way to divide members of a certain field into two groups, that is, IN and OUT, which can then be used as a filter...
Create a Likert Scale Chart in 5 Minutes
A quick and easy tutorial on how to build a Likert Scale Chart – a great way to visualise survey data.
How to Build a Butterfly Chart in Tableau
Butterfly charts can be a great way to compare two points of interest that share an axis side by side. Visually this can make the relationship (or lack there of) very easy to see. In this blog I will walk you through how to build a butterfly chart in Tableau. There...
The Radial Bar Chart in Tableau Tutorial
Are you looking to spice up your Tableau dashboards? Maybe you are bored of making the same old bar or line charts. Why not try creating a radial bar chart? Also known as a radial histogram or a circular barplot, this chart can be the centrepiece of a visualisation to...
My First Client Project Experience
After 4 weeks of intensive training in Tableau and Alteryx, we started our first client project on the 6th July. So far we learnt the core concepts with synthetic data experience. But Client projects are the great opportunities to work with real-time data on real...
Creating Adjustable Reference line and changing chart colour using parameter
Last week we learnt creating adjustable reference lines and changing chart color based on reference line using parameters in Tableau. Parameters allow you to give you users control over the visualization. For instance, a reference line might help show users sales...
Tips and Tricks in Tableau
Its been six weeks since I joined The Data School, have learned a tremendous amount of Alteryx and Tableau.I thought of sharing some of the tricks and tip in Tableau, which I found Useful. 1.Moving the table calculation to measures pane to use it in different...
A Beginner’s Guide to Using Sets in Tableau
Intro to Sets Most people will have had some exposure to set theory in high school. In mathematics, a set is just a well-defined collection of distinct objects, whose order or arrangement in the set does not matter. This theory is applied and performed in Tableau...
The Complete Guide to Alteryx Analytics for Beginners: P2
Context This blog covers the Feature Engineering of the model building process. If you want more context on how to explore the data and the process of data modelling check Part 1. Otherwise, the download the Titanic dataset here. The workflow is available here and...