The Data School Blog
Geometric Art Experiment in Tableau
Last week, we had a chance to build engaging and creative dashboards for a reputable charity organization. Inspired by the Flerlage Twins, I had a geometric art experiment and used their simple bubble chart method to build a "Movember image" in tableau with 3500...
How can Australia improve our Prosperity Index Rank
This viz set out to answer the question of how Australia can improve our Prosperity Index Rank by looking at particular areas of concern, and comparing to our New Zealand neighbours... Australia's PI rank has taken a significant dive over time, while NZ remains quite...
How to show/hide containers in Tableau to tell an effective story?
Tableau, being such a powerful tool for data analysis and visualisation, has many cool features that can be utilised to do an effective and efficient storytelling. Recently I discovered one such cool feature of show/hide containers to save space, and show...
Pagination
In this post I will share how to set table pagination in Tableau. Create a large table using Superstore dataset and create a parameter "Page size" which indicates the number of results you would like to see. 2. Create a calculated field "Index" which will return the...
I made an Ordering and Invoicing System Using Google Forms and Alteryx: Part 1
I'm excited to share what I've made. As the title suggests I've created an ordering and invoicing system, which is currently being used with my friend's hobby business. The customer can use google forms to place an order, then in the backend, I've created an...
Tableau Tips and Tricks
In this post, I want to share some of the Tableau tips I found useful which I didn't know about. Hopefully they will save you time or frustration down the road. Tip#1 How to find all calculated fields in the side bar? When working with a large dataset we sometimes...
Negative space bar chart with an image
This week's client project was very different from all the projects we've done before and required a bit of a different approach. I had to do a lot of research in order to understand how we can deliver the information in a creative way. In this blog I will share one...
Drill Through in Tableau
This blog is about how we can achieve drill through in Tableau. But before that, we need to understand the difference between Drill Through and Drill Down. Drill Down: It is a capability that takes the user from a more general view of the data to a more specific one....
Showing Values for Overlapping Time Ranges in a Table
To view the business performance, especially the financial numbers, sometimes people need to see the numbers for some overlapping periods, like the Last 6 Months, Last 1 Year, and Total Period to Date so that users can compare the performance over these periods. See...
Dashboard Week Day 4 – What’s your Country’s Shape of Prosperity
Finally, it’s the last day of the dashboard week! Data Introduction The data we got is from the Legatum Institute and it shows the prosperity index which indicates how prosperity is forming and changing across the world from 2007 to 2021. The index consists of 12...
Learning Machine Learning – A Beginner’s Guide
Last week, I achieved a machine learning milestone I have been working towards for the last six months - I came in the top 10 (6th place) of Kaggle's April Tabular Playground Series competition. This competition pits ML practitioners together on simulated tabular data...
Issues with Tableau Public
In the Tableau community worldwide, Tableau Public should be one of the most popular sites for Tableau users. Tableau users can publish their Tableau Desktop projects to this website at any time, and many amazing projects can be discovered there. However, be...