Alex Taylor-Jackson
Alex has moved to Australia from the beautiful South Coast of England having obtained a degree in Economics in the Netherlands. As a passionate problem solver, Alex is eager to apply his degree in understanding and solving some of the leading challenges in the world using big data, and sharing his insights through data visualisation. In his spare time, Alex enjoys hiking, travelling, swimming and running.
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 various political changes throughout the ages (1066 for example), English vocabulary has become more Latin and French over...
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 lab goes through steps to trace a bitmap of an image, but this is not what I want, I wanted to make a hand drawn custom...
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 to make hours and minutes in Tableau using having time, or date-time type fields in Tableau. First, some data prep is required. Ensure you...
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 the items in a tableau action 1. Ctrl+A on the action screen can save a little bit of time. If you want everything selected, in order for...
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 a bit. Padding To begin with, I want to talk about tableaus automatic padding when you drag a sheet onto the dashboard. Tableau...
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), or stumbled upon it by accident. Either way I will show in a few steps how to create a functioning funnel plot in Tableau with no...
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 can go and do outside, so we look for what can be done inside. In my house we have the Sydney version of monopoly, this gave me an idea...
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 so much and come a long way from where I began. Some of the topics that we have covered include: --Tableau --Tableau Prep...
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. It should be noted that this is purely an aesthetic thing to do in Tableau. List of Programmes needed: R Tableau Alteryx Notepad++ To begin...
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 granularity (small area). The idea I wanted to explore was whether the characteristics of a certain area or state contributed to the value...