A Beginners Guide to Subqueries

A Beginners Guide to Subqueries

Subqueries allow us to combine data from multiple tables from a database into a single query. Breaking it down to its simplest definition, a subquery is “a query inside a query”. There are many variants of subqueries. While subqueries are generally used...
Client Project Weeks

Client Project Weeks

Having completed 7 weeks and 2 client projects in The Data School, our cohort – DSAU11 has had a feel for what client placements and most of our careers are going to be like in our foreseeable future. Below are my experiences from first 2 client projects. The...
Drilling Down on a Bar Graph

Drilling Down on a Bar Graph

One of the main challenges of preparing a good dashboard is maintaining minimalism while delivering the required information. This needs to be sometimes achieved by making details available on demand. The following tutorial in brief shows how to achieve this with set...
Window Functions for Comparison

Window Functions for Comparison

Window functions are among the most useful inbuilt functions in Tableau. These functions can be used while carrying out aggregation over a certain set of rows of our interest. These set of rows can be called windows. This puts the term ‘Window’ in window...
Beat the Boredom with Batch Macros

Beat the Boredom with Batch Macros

The corner-stone of the industrial revolution was the ability to automate the boring tasks. Also, this hold good during the era of digital data revolution. While exploring and analyzing vast datasets can be very rewarding, a fair bit of this involves repetitive tasks....