by Jonathon Cavalieri | Oct 25, 2018 | Jonathon Cavalieri, The Data School
This week at the Data School we had teaching week. Where each of the DSers took a topic that they need improvement in and then taught the topic to the rest of the group. I had the topic of designing for mobile. Here are some of the tips i found while researching the...
by Jonathon Cavalieri | Oct 23, 2018 | Jonathon Cavalieri, The Data School
I recently took the Tableau Desktop Qualified Associate exam. I am going to go through my preparation, results and some tips I hope will help anyone that has not yet sat the exam. Before this one I had only done the Alteryx core exam at the Data School. While this was...
by Jonathon Cavalieri | Oct 22, 2018 | Alteryx, Jonathon Cavalieri
In our week 8 client project with LendLease we had the task of creating an automatic emailing system in Alteryx to email a series of tables to several different people. This might sound like an easy task, but it had the extra condition that it could not use the...
by Jonathon Cavalieri | Oct 3, 2018 | Jonathon Cavalieri, The Data School
Tableau 2018.3 is currently in Beta with a range of new features, all of which can be found here. I am looking specifically at the new dashboard navigation action. Previously you would have to create a filter action that does not apply any filtering, but now they have...
by Jonathon Cavalieri | Sep 6, 2018 | Client Project Week, Jonathon Cavalieri, The Data School
The 80/20 rule also known as the Pareto Principle states that approximately 80% of the effort comes from 20% of the causes. The name comes from the economist Vilfredo Pareto who showed that about 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. In data...
by Jonathon Cavalieri | Aug 22, 2018 | Jonathon Cavalieri, The Data School
The addition of extensions to Tableau opens a huge range of possibilities to the way dashboards interact with other applications. From the examples on the public gallery I can see the potential for them however, I believe it is diverging from the core foundations of...
