Débora Contente

Débora studied Computer Engineering in Portugal while building her own business of music for special occasions. Wanting a bigger challenge, she decided to come to the UK to complete a MSc in Computer Science. There was where she got to know the power of Tableau. After hearing many people talk about Data Visualisation passionately and experiencing it herself using Tableau, she found the Data School and understood how it would be the best place to develop her skills and stimulate her creativity every day. Now in the Data School, the challenge she was looking for has finally begin.

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Thu 23 May 2019 | Débora Contente
My Favourites of the Data School, without any order
I am not making a great introduction on this one because I don’t really feel like getting emotional. Our time is coming to an end. Bla Bla Bla. Let me just rewind some of the great things that happened during these 4 months. DS Meet & Greet Hanna [https://twitter
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Thu 23 May 2019 | Débora Contente
My Top X Very General Tableau Tips
The truth is that I’m still learning every day, so I am planning on keeping this list updated and add more stuff over time. Hence the X… Preparation 1 – Crayons are your friends
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Wed 22 May 2019 | Débora Contente
How to let the user know how to interact
One of the best things about Tableau is how the user can interact with dashboards and create a view totally personalised for their needs. However, if the user is not aware of how to do it, it all goes to waste. In this blog post I will cover some of the ways you can use to help with that
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Tue 21 May 2019 | Débora Contente
Can you allow users to choose what they want to sort by?
Yes you can! How? With a parameter. The Example Let’s use the Superstore datasource for this example. Our use case will be to create a view showing Profit Ratio, Sales and Profit per Order and allowing the user to choose which of these they want the Orders to be sorted by
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Mon 20 May 2019 | Débora Contente
How to create drill-down Set Actions
Last week I wrote a blog post on how to add icons to your drill-down set actions assuming you’d know how to do it. But what if you don’t? Well, you can just continue reading
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Mon 20 May 2019 | Débora Contente
Some of the words that I've learnt at the Data School
One of the things that I am taking out of The Data School, apart from the Tableau and Alteryx knowledge, is soft-skills: * How to Present * How to communicate * How to deal with clients * How to ask for help * And so on and so on
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Fri 17 May 2019 | Débora Contente
How to add icons to your drill down set action
I really like small details, so adding an icon to imply that something is clickable is kind of obligatory for me. In this blog post, I will only cover how to add the icons, assuming that you already have your drill-down set action ready. I will be using our dear Superstore data as an example
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Tue 14 May 2019 | Débora Contente
How can I test my RegEx?
I have used RegEx lots of times in Alteryx. It is a super useful resource, especially when web scraping [https://www.thedataschool.co
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Wed 08 May 2019 | Débora Contente
Unhide ALL the sheets.
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Wed 01 May 2019 | Débora Contente
Dashboard Week Story Day 3? - How have people been misspelling my name?
I am so confused with our Dashboard Week. It was not a Dashboard Week (we only got 2 days in the official week and 1 today), the first day was more of an Alteryx Day, the second day was actually a Dashboard day, and today it was a Story day
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Thu 25 Apr 2019 | Débora Contente
Dashboard Week - Day 2
The task: Read it in here: /andy-kriebel/avengers/ [https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/andy-kriebel/avengers/] We were also told that the final result should be in the format of an infographic and that we had to show our drawings to Andy before moving on to Tableau
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Tue 23 Apr 2019 | Débora Contente
Dashboard Week, Workflow Day 1
Well, I now have 20 minutes to describe how terrible today went, so let’s keep it simple: The task: Read it in here, Andy’s blog post [https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/andy-kriebel/nhs-trusts/]. The “why did I struggle?” The data was just too much
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Tue 26 Mar 2019 | Débora Contente
Quick Tip - Where is Alteryx wasting your time?
In this blog post, I will guide you through how you can inspect your Alteryx Workflow and find out which is the tool that is wasting your time the most. Initially you would think that you can rely on the little percentages beside each tool, right? Well, you can’t. I am sorry
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Fri 22 Mar 2019 | Débora Contente
These 3-hour projects...
If you are familiar with the Data School then you probably already know what I am talking about. Every Friday we are challenged with a project presentation – either a client one (and in that case we’ve worked on that through the week) or a from-Andy-or-Carl’s-evil-imagination one
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Tue 19 Mar 2019 | Débora Contente
Makeover Monday this Week - 2019W12
As this week’s Makeover Monday’s dataset was pretty simple, I decided to focus on some little tricks that I had not tried before and really wanted to. Tooltips with “dynamic colours” and an info button with more detailed information are some of them
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Wed 06 Mar 2019 | Débora Contente
Quick Tableau Tip: Order Matters!
Today, while doing some exercises on LODs and Table Calculations, we got across lots of tips and tricks – some much more complicated than others
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Thu 28 Feb 2019 | Débora Contente
Quick Tip on dragging things around.
I have recently written a blog post on why Tableau assigns the colour blue to some fields and green to others [http:// /debora-contente/why-are-they-blue-or-green/]. I would recommend you to read it after continuing on this one. If you have read it already, just continue reading. The tip
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Thu 28 Feb 2019 | Débora Contente
Why are they blue or green?
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Tue 26 Feb 2019 | Débora Contente
Order of Operations and its importance
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Tue 19 Feb 2019 | Débora Contente
The process of Building a Vizz
The challenge Last week, on Friday, the project we were challenged with was building a Vizz with a dataset from Exasol [https://www.exasol.com/en/dataviz/]. Nothing particularly new until here (apart from the fact that all datasets were ginormous!)
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Thu 14 Feb 2019 | Débora Contente
Calendar Picker takes over Boring Dropdown
I have never got along very well with Parameters. To be fair I do not think I had ever used them before, as I’d always find a way of just using Filters
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Tue 12 Feb 2019 | Débora Contente
Hi, I’m Déb. Can I just say that I’m happy?
After all, that’s my surname… I am waiting for you to laugh, but now I realise that you may not understand. Contente means happy in Portuguese and that is all I can think of right now – how happy I am
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