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Alex Taylor-Jackson
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Finding the etymology of English words using Alteryx and Tableau
The story I’ve always been interested in where words in English originate from. Many will know that English is a Germanic language, but due to...

How to polygonise any custom SVG in Tableau (Alteryx required)
In order to convert hand-drawn SVGs (made with Inkscape) to Tableau I made an aletryx workflow that seems to work. This post from the information...

5 more tableau tips and tricks
This blog post is a direct follow on from my other post about tableau tips and tricks String fields as hours and minutes 1. How...

8 Tableau hacks you wish you knew before
Hi all, this blog is about the small things in Tableau that I know, that I think beginners to Tableau might not. Selecting all of...

Tableau Padding and container tips
Hi all, in this blog I’m going to go through the basics of Tableau padding and container tips that I’ve learnt from using Tableau for...

Funnel Plots in Tableau
Introduction If you are reading this you may have aggressively wanted to look for how to create a funnel plot in Tableau (like I did),...

Tableauopoly
Tableauopoly As I write this the world is gripped in the vice of the coronavirus pandemic. Like all people, I am limited by what I...

Reflective Blog – Data School – Alexander Taylor-Jackson
Introduction Have I enjoyed myself at the Dataschool? YES. These 4 months of training will give you the best education you can get. I’ve learnt...

Portraits in Tableau
For this blog, I will try to explain how to create a portrait in Tableau of whatever you want with the colours as they appear....

Dashboard Week – Day 5: Measures of Health Afflictions Data set
Introduction Today is our last day in dashboard week. Our task for today was to visualise diseases in the US at a tract level of...