Beau Foletti

Before joining the data school, Beau worked as a landscape gardener, working in London and Melbourne. He started working for his family business and has since worked on various projects from Camden estates to Chelsea Flower show. He decided to join the data school to learn more about data and its applications and for a chance to work with highly reputable companies.

Beau Foletti graduated from the University of Manchester in Environmental Science. Throughout his course, especially in his final dissertation, Beau used data to quantify environmental problems and processes, from air quality to weather prediction. It was after university that he began to see the power of data in real world applications and how important it would be in the future for various industries.

When not manipulating data, Beau spends his time with his other passions. He creates music with friends whilst also directing a small, online music community. He is always looking to try new things and to get better at old ones. He enjoys cooking and photography and still enjoys gardening when the chance arises.

Blog Posts

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Fri 02 Aug 2024 | Beau Foletti
Nested Sorting in Power BI
Nested sorting refers to sorting a dataset or chart by multiple columns or fields. This varies from regular sorting, which sorts by one field
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Thu 27 Oct 2022 | Beau Foletti
Birkbeck University Museum Data - Analysis - Dashboard Week
Today's task was again about analysis. We were asked to look at historic museum data and come up with insights and display them in the best way. No dashboard required but design of charts best for analysis was.
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Wed 26 Oct 2022 | Beau Foletti
Adelaide Wine Data - Analysis - Dashboard Week
Today's task was different to yesterday's task of accessibility. There were no requirements on design, not even a requirement for a dashboard. Today was purely about analysis.
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Tue 25 Oct 2022 | Beau Foletti
Glasgow City Council - Accessibility - Dashboard Week
The first day of our dashboard week was looking at accessibility. We were tasked to choose a specific type of design to accommodate for people who struggle to use dashboards. This could be universal or inclusive design...
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Wed 21 Sep 2022 | Beau Foletti
Control Charts in Tableau
Control Charts are a way of studying how a process changes over time. It can be used to understand if a data point is consistent, or unpredictable.
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Tue 23 Aug 2022 | Beau Foletti
Separating Legends
Tableau gives users an option to separate measures, making it easier to format different fields all in the same chart. An easy technique to make it clearer for users to distinguish different values/measures.
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Tue 23 Aug 2022 | Beau Foletti
Tips for using the Tableau Tooltip Tool
Tooltips are a powerful way to allow users to find out more information about a visualisation on Tableau. They function by either hovering or functioning over a data point. The tooltips hold whatever information the creator wants. They can be used to highlight data, or send a message to your user
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Wed 10 Aug 2022 | Beau Foletti
Containers in Tableau
Making a dashboard look appealing should be high in your priorities as a dashboard designer. Containers in Tableau make it easy to structure your work so you can present it in many different ways and also make it easy to resize and reorganise things
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Wed 27 Jul 2022 | Beau Foletti
Licenses and Pricing for Tableau (Cloud & Server)
A short blog to outline the differences between different licenses of Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud.
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Mon 25 Jul 2022 | Beau Foletti
Table Calculations and Filters: Dynamically Comparing Values Over Time
Table calculations can be powerful tools to compare data. Making them dynamic makes them even more so. A short demo to set up a simple dynamic table calculation to calculate percentage differences over time.
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Thu 21 Jul 2022 | Beau Foletti
User Input - Interface Tools in Macros
How to set up a user interface in a macro in Alteryx
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Mon 18 Jul 2022 | Beau Foletti
Data Transformation: Cross-Tabs and Transpose
A quick example of how to use the basic functions of the Transpose and Cross-Tab Tools in Alteryx
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Thu 14 Jul 2022 | Beau Foletti
Using Parameters to Manipulate Data (Percentage Increase)
How to create a parameter to allow the user to change values in a calculation and show them dynamically on a chart.
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Tue 12 Jul 2022 | Beau Foletti
Data Types in Tableau
An explanation of data types in Tableau and how to change them.
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Thu 07 Jul 2022 | Beau Foletti
Alteryx vs Tableau Prep - Joins
Alteryx and Tableau Prep are two programs designed to prepare data ready for visualisation. After a first look, what is the standout difference between the two?
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