by Alex Taylor-Jackson | Feb 1, 2020 | Alex Taylor-Jackson
Recently I hit the G key by accident on Tableau, to my surprise something happened, gridlines appeared on my screen. This got me thinking what are the Tableau Keyboard shortcuts that people do not know about, and more importantly which are the ones you should know....
by Alex Taylor-Jackson | Jan 29, 2020 | Alex Taylor-Jackson
Date parsing can be a tricky business in Alteryx and Tableau. To make it easier for myself and others to understand, I decided to write a blog on the topic. Data Parsing is a relatively new topic to the DSAU5 cohort, and we all seem to love it so far. The tricky part...
by Alex Taylor-Jackson | Jan 12, 2020 | Alex Taylor-Jackson
Inspiration for this post came from doing replications of visualisations from Craig Dewar. Whilst everyone in my cohort could get the final solution, what very few of us could do was to format correctly. One of the issues was shading and how to make the graph/viz...
by Alex Taylor-Jackson | Dec 30, 2019 | Alex Taylor-Jackson
Intro For this blog post I decided to use the information available to me on the UK and Australian Data School Websites. I wondered how employers and partners of the Data School view and select people to work for them. I decided to make a Viz to make it easier to view...
by Alex Taylor-Jackson | Dec 21, 2019 | Alex Taylor-Jackson
What is Autocorrelation? Simply put autocorrelation is a pattern that repeats itself over a time period. Or the degree of similarity of a given time series and the lagged version of itself over a specified time interval. A common example of this is temperature,...
by Alex Taylor-Jackson | Dec 13, 2019 | Alex Taylor-Jackson
This blog post was inspired by my cohort not really getting how trend lines are calculated when using Tableau. So I thought I’d brush up on my statistics knowledge and write about it. The five different types of trend lines are: 1.Linear 2.Polynomial...
