Kate Crawford

Kate is inspired to help people navigate complex systems. It is why she pursued degrees in international law and social science, supporting legal research and working in multiple countries. From the courthouse to the classroom, she found that the most impactful work required data.

First introduced to applied statistics as a graduate student in Chicago, Kate continued to explore data applications through General Assembly’s Data Science program. This enabled her to learn Python, SQL, and the foundations of machine learning. She practiced these skills as an analyst for non-profits and government agencies. 

At The Information Lab, Kate empowers people across industries to maximize their tools and gain deeper insights from their data. During Data School training, Kate built an expertise in multiple areas of the data lifecycle by leveraging the expressiveness of Tableau and the efficiency of Alteryx. She is recognized for her positive attitude toward problem solving, quickly grasping context for advanced calculations and troubleshooting queries.

Certified in Tableau, Alteryx, and Power BI, Kate is curious about how different software solutions balance data and design best practices. Even outside of work, she enjoys testing out programs and ideas. She shares this journey on TIL’s blog and other online communities, like GitHub.

Blog Posts

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Fri 15 Nov 2024 | Kate Crawford
No-Code Solutions for Embedding Tableau in Salesforce
What are Salesforce Lightning Apps? Salesforce is an app-based platform that has several no-Code solutions for adding web components to its interface. This works similar to web objects on a Tableau Dashboard. There are two kinds of Salesforce apps: Classic and Lightning
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Fri 13 Sep 2024 | Kate Crawford
Put Good In, Get Good Out: How to use Tableau Prep for Tableau Pulse
Tableau Pulse insights are enhanced by AI. But, is your data ready for Tableau AI? In this post, I’ll share tips and Tableau Prep steps for Tableau Pulse Metrics. What is Tableau Pulse? Tableau Pulse is a data interface available on Tableau Cloud
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Thu 12 Sep 2024 | Kate Crawford
Alteryx: 11 Steps to Create an Iterative Macro for Pagination
There are four Macro types in Alteryx. This post introduces the Iterative Macro, which loops through a flow based on a condition. What is Pagination? Pagination is when you page through a website or API service to retrieve data
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Thu 22 Aug 2024 | Kate Crawford
#WOW2023 | Week 42 | Proportional Brushing with Multi-Selection
This Workout Wednesday was created by Kyle Yetter to practice multi-selection features. Similar to Kyle, I have worked on projects where the client wants to engage with a combination of fields to gain insights to a specific customer segment
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Wed 21 Aug 2024 | Kate Crawford
Use Cases for Dynamic Zone Visibility in Tableau
What is DZV? It's been two years since Tableau's 2022.3 Release introduced us to Dynamic Zone Visibility (DZV). Creators can build better user experiences and more performant dashboards. Amazing actions have resulted from having fewer calculations to show and hide dashboard objects
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Mon 19 Aug 2024 | Kate Crawford
A Guide to Measure Names and Measure Values
Knowing the difference between measure names and measure values is helpful to making more complex charts in Tableau. The Data pane generates these fields, which can be used in different ways: * Measure Values are continuous fields that create an axis in the view
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Fri 16 Aug 2024 | Kate Crawford
What Beyonce and Sandwiches taught me about Data Ecosystems
Like most beyhive in tech, I often find myself “right-click inspecting” code on beyonce.com. Instead of looking for a tour page this time, I went to the HTML header to find potential data sources that Bey and the awesome team at Parkwood Entertainment might be using for internal analysis
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Fri 09 Aug 2024 | Kate Crawford
Dashboard Templates for Teams
Client projects are a core part of the Data School Training program. They happen eight times during the 17-week course. Cohort members showcase the power of Tableau and/or Alteryx within a week
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Wed 07 Aug 2024 | Kate Crawford
A Digital Garden for Documentation
Capture ideas and document projects in a way that allows for easy editing and sharing. This is a multi-part series where I share how to use different software for data management and documentation
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Mon 29 Jul 2024 | Kate Crawford
Dashboard Week, Day Four
On the fourth and final day of Dashboard week, we were given a familiar dataset but an new task -- build a mobile dashboard. That's right. We set out to build a dashboard designed for phones in a day. My data came from sons of hierarchies and included human resource information
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Thu 25 Jul 2024 | Kate Crawford
Dashboard Week - Day Three
The third day of Dashboard week is Fromage Day! We were asked to go to cheese.com and build a search tool in Tableau. This required web scraping and a bit of creativity. As someone who used to work in a Cheese & Wine shop, I knew I wanted a tool that would help with pairings and recipes
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Wed 24 Jul 2024 | Kate Crawford
Dashboard Week, Day Two
On the second day of Dashboard week, we were provided the opportunity to create an informative dashboard using UNICEF data. As a non-expert in child welfare, I spent the first few hour of the day reading recent publications and journal articles from UNICEF
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Tue 23 Jul 2024 | Kate Crawford
Dashboard Week, Day One
On the first day of Dashboard week, we were given data bout Golf Courses in Portugal. I've only ever played golf at Top Golf. So, my knowledge about the data's topic is minimal
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