Joe decided he wanted to pursue a more technical career whilst studying for a Masters in Applied Biosciences and Biotechnology at Imperial College London. However he wasn’t sure exactly what he wanted to do. By chance he came across an ad for The Data School, and upon using Tableau, he immediately realised that a career in data analysis at The Information Lab was perfect for him.
Joe Carr
Blog Posts
Mon 20 May 2019 | Joe Carr
Webscraping through Alteryx as if you are logged in
Here’s something which might help you if you’ve ever needed to download a load
of URLs which are only accessible if you are logged in.
Normally, webscraping with Alteryx is pretty simple – you connect a text input
containing the URL to a Download tool and parse out the DownloadData column
returned
Wed 15 May 2019 | Joe Carr
Use colours from a colour palette when no field is on the colour shelf
Here’s a quick Tableau Tip I credit to my protégé Andy K.
You may have faced the problem where you want to use a colour from a colour
palette – e.g. a categorical custom palette – but you cannot see the palette
colours when you go to the Colour shelf
Wed 01 May 2019 | Joe Carr
Dashboard Week - Letting my creativity 'Flourish'
Today, Sophie decided that we look at UK baby name prevalence stats from the UNS
website. However, we had to visualise it in a free, web-based software called
Flourish.
See below:
https://flourish.studio/
Interestingly, Flourish seems to focus on very different things to Tableau
Thu 28 Feb 2019 | Joe Carr
Using FIND, LEFT and MID to format names
What do you do if you require names in a different format to what you have?
For example…
All of your names are in the datasource as follows:
And you want
Well, the key is to use string functions to find the gap between the first name
and surname
Tue 26 Feb 2019 | Joe Carr
How does Tableau Web Editor compare to Tableau Desktop?
Last week we (DS13) spent a day running through the basics of Tableau Server
with JMac.
We also had a go on Tableau Web Editor to understand how it compares to Tableau
Desktop. This involved building graphs with all sorts of features e.g