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Jack Woodward
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A Guide to Date Functions in Tableau
In this post, we’ll be exploring date functions in Tableau. We’ll start off with a cheat sheet, showcasing the more commonly used date functions with...
Row-Level-Security (RLS) in Power BI
What is Row Level Security (RLS) Row level security is a feature in Power BI that allows you to restrict data access on who is...
How to Create a Donut Chart in Tableau
Donut charts are a great alternative to pie charts as they offer a cleaner visual layout, creating a useful white space in the center that...
My Four-Month Training Journey
The Early Weeks Early on in the training, we were introduced to Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, and SQL. Most days generally start off by covering...
Reflecting on my Interview Viz – Four Months Later
To get into the Data School, you’re asked to create a Tableau visualisation using a provided dataset and present it during the interview, explaining your...
Tableau – Dynamic Year over Year KPI with Trend Arrows
In this guide, I will walk through how to create a dynamic KPI that updates based on a year parameter. It will also contain trend...
Power BI: Creating Interactive Hide/Show Information Buttons
Through the use of such Power BI features as buttons, bookmarks and the selection pane, you can you create interactive reports where users view information...
How to Call APIs in Alteryx
In this guide, I will walk through how to make a GET request in Alteryx using the Game of Thrones API. This is a free...
Dashboard Week – Day 4: Crosswords
Our second Power BI task had us looking at a Crossword Dataset. The data was mostly clean, only requiring a custom key column for the...
Dashboard Week – Day 5: IMDB
The final task for dashboard week involved working with an IMDB dataset. We received seven excel files that covered IMDB ratings, title information, crew, episodes,...