Caitlin joined the Data School after completing a Masters degree in Digital Humanities at UCL, which provided an introduction to data visualization, UI best practice, XML and SQL.
During her client placements at The Data School - first at IRIS Software Group and later at Forterra PLC - Cait has worked alongside stakeholders from Finance, Customer Success, Surveying, Commercial and Product Planning teams, honing the following skills:
- developing and enhancing Tableau dashboards;
- using Microsoft SQL Server to query and reshape data;
- migrating Power BI reporting to Tableau;
- requirement gathering and stakeholder management;
- connecting to PostreSQL repository to provide additional reporting on Tableau Server usage.
Prior to her MA course, Cait studied Classics and worked for several years in arts and charity administration.
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Tue 09 Apr 2024 | Caitlin Walsh
Quick Tip: clustered bar charts with Measure Values
If users want to see a side-by-side bar chart with 'grouped' spacing, Tableau developers can sometimes be limited by the hierarchy of dimensions and measures. If you are working with Measure Values, however, this quick tip offers an alternative.
Mon 25 Sep 2023 | Caitlin Walsh
Daylight Savings: a matter of Time...
If you are creating a Tableau workbook that will use UTC as its default timezone, you might not see daylight savings reflected when you use TODAY() and NOW() functions.
This quick tip provides some logic that could be used to dynamically work out when an extra hour might need adding
Tue 19 Sep 2023 | Caitlin Walsh
Shopping List: utilize Tableau parameter strings
In this blog, I showcase a method of using REGEX and string parameters in Tableau to construct a Shopping List style dashboard. Work out the total price of a list of products, where different products have different quantities.
Tue 22 Nov 2022 | Caitlin Walsh
Dynamic Default Date Parameters: no time like the present
A simple feature I only recently became aware of: using a calculated field to set the default parameter value of a workbook. In this example, we can use dynamic date calculations to set a relevant parameter date that will be future-proof.
Thu 09 Jun 2022 | Caitlin Walsh
It's all in the Details
Level of Detail calculations (LODs) can be very useful when trying to find and highlight key info in our data. In this example, we can highlight the Latest Month, Prior Month, the Month one year before the Latest, and the First Month in Superstore.