by The Data School | Nov 9, 2021 | John Jiang
Common questions I observed two questions coming up over and over again during my team’s presentations. The first is some variation of “I didn’t get the files, could you send them again?” Usually it was because someone joined late. Do yourself...
by The Data School | Nov 8, 2021 | John Jiang
Learn What The Data School Learns, in which each trainee analyst gives a 1.5 hour lesson on a Tableau or Alteryx topic, is the most nerve-wracking part of the entire 4-month training process for a lot of people. Here are some quick tips for improving your experience....
by The Data School | Nov 7, 2021 | John Jiang
As of the belated writing of this post, I now have my first Alteryx certification. Hooray! And what better way is there to mark this occasion than to write a blog post about it? Here, I’ll write briefly about my experience with it, how it stacks up against the...
by The Data School | Nov 6, 2021 | John Jiang
In the closing day of Dashboard Week, we had not until the end of the day, but until 3pm presentation, to complete our visualizations. Thankfully, the data this time around was quite good, allowing me to spend almost all of the time working in Tableau. As a result,...
by The Data School | Nov 5, 2021 | John Jiang
Welcome back folks for another exciting edition of Dashboard Week! Today we’ll be working with a set of fairly regular text files. The twist is that visualization has to be done in Tableau Server — Tableau Desktop is off-limits. Now isn’t that just...
by The Data School | Nov 3, 2021 | John Jiang
Humans are utterly fascinated by the idea of dying in a plane crash or accident. We consume a lot of non-fiction television on the topic, including most famously the show Air Crash Investigation, or Mayday in the United States and Canada. It also crops up constantly...
