by Shuchita Sharma | Jul 9, 2019 | Shuchita Sharma
The famous dashboard week at Data School Down Under kicked off yesterday. Our first task was to use Domain group’s free API to get data for our visualization. We were required to explore documentation on ‘agents & listings’ and ‘properties...
by Shuchita Sharma | Jun 28, 2019 | Shuchita Sharma
Certification exams are a great way to prove your skills and learn more about the tool. As part of our sixteen weeks’ training program at the data school, we are required to pass two certification exams: Tableau Desktop and Alteryx Designer Core. I’m happy to say I...
by Shuchita Sharma | Jun 2, 2019 | Shuchita Sharma
While working with the Sample Superstore data set (yet again!), it was required to show the sales for the top 10 most profitable customers in the Small Business segment. I dragged ‘Customer Name’ to rows and Sales to columns and filtered the ‘Customer Name’ by ‘Top...
by Shuchita Sharma | May 31, 2019 | Shuchita Sharma
While using maps, we sometimes want to show multiple colors for a single dimension on it. Let’s say, top 5 and bottom 5 states by profit in a country. An easy way to do this is by creating sets which means having a subset of data of top 5 and bottom 5 states by...
by Shuchita Sharma | May 19, 2019 | Shuchita Sharma, The Data School
Parameters are dynamic values that can replace constant values in calculations, filters and reference lines. Let’s say you want to show top product by sales. One way is to use the dimension as a filter and fix the number of products to say 10. With this solution you...
by Shuchita Sharma | May 3, 2019 | Shuchita Sharma
A Pareto chart is named after Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist who developed the Pareto principle. This principle states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. About the chart: The chart is a combination of both bar and...
