Laura Scavino

Laura holds a BA in Translation and Interpreting at the University of Milan, with a semester in Slavonic Languages at the University of Tallinn and a MSc in International Business Management at the University of Kent. Laura demonstrated a passion for visual communication during her work experience in Marketing and she developed her interest in data during the selection process at the Information Lab. She sees data visualisation practices in Tableau as a dynamic way to improve audience engagement and interaction. Laura is driven by the willingness to learn and experiment new things with Tableau and Alteryx softwares, in order to provide support to businesses for decision makers in the near future.

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Sun 03 Jun 2018 | Laura Scavino
What did I learn in the last 16 weeks at the Data School?
Day Zero I still remember that day when I got THAT phone call from Andy Kriebel, the Head Coach of the Data School: ‘Laura you got the job’, best phone call I have ever received
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Fri 01 Jun 2018 | Laura Scavino
Have a look at my top 5 Tableau Tips
This week is the final week for the DS8 and the final project consisted on providing 5 Tableau tips for each member of the cohort. Even though a member was missing for the presentation, we collected 35 Tableau tips during the day, which are available to watch onYouTube [https://www.youtube
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Tue 29 May 2018 | Laura Scavino
Create a grid map in Tableau
Last week project was about the US wind capacity and I decided to combine Alteryx and Tableau efforts to create a grid map in Tableau. Followed the advice from Head coach of the Data School, Andy Kriebel [https://www.thedataschool.co
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Tue 22 May 2018 | Laura Scavino
SQL Fundamentals and examples on parallels with Tableau prep
SQL or Structured Query language is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system, or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system
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Thu 17 May 2018 | Laura Scavino
A way of using shapes in Tableau
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Sun 13 May 2018 | Laura Scavino
Spatial Analytics in Alteryx and Tableau
As part of the Data School training, last week each member of the cohort had to teach a topic to the rest of the team. The topic I was assigned to is Spatial Analytics in Alteryx and Tableau
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Thu 03 May 2018 | Laura Scavino
Create a filtered extract from a live connection on Tableau Server
This week I have learnt how to customise a data extract from a live connection on Tableau Server. I also learnt how to blend the two data sources from Tableau Server, which had no common fields with a simple trick
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Sun 29 Apr 2018 | Laura Scavino
Time Management in Tableau
Day 5 was probably the most complex among the days of the week of Dashboard week since it required a presentation early in the morning, a 4 hour project and another presentation in the early afternoon. Being also the last day of dashboard week, it carried not only the stress but also the knowledge
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Fri 27 Apr 2018 | Laura Scavino
Parsing and cleaning files in Alteryx
Dashboard Week day 4 has arrived and it started again with the morning presentation about yesterday project, followed by today’s project kickoff. This time the data set was completely different: looking at the Energy production in the United States of America
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Thu 26 Apr 2018 | Laura Scavino
Dashboard action to hide worksheets
The topic for today’s Tableau dashboard is the famous American TV series Rick and Monti with all the 30 episodes, 436 characters from 7 species and living in 53 locations
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Tue 24 Apr 2018 | Laura Scavino
Moving double reference lines with Parameters
Today’s project is looking at the Southern Oscillation Index with the data downloaded from NOAA [https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/teleconnections/enso/indicators/soi/] website. This index is calculated by analysing the sea level preassure in Tahiti, Australia and Darwin, French Polynesia
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Mon 23 Apr 2018 | Laura Scavino
Create Dashboard actions in Tableau
Today I sent 45 minutes in building a really interesting Dashboard, as an Italian. I used the latest dataset created by Andy Kriebel during his last restaurants visit in Rome at the beginning of April 2018
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Thu 19 Apr 2018 | Laura Scavino
Different Uses of Parameters: Tips from WorkoutWednesday
Parameters can be used for different purposes on Tableau and they can help customising the view with few tricks. Interested in 3 of the many uses in Parameter? Read the three types of parameters that I used for Workout Wednesday challenge week number 33 and 43
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Tue 17 Apr 2018 | Laura Scavino
Three tips from WorkoutWednesday challenge
Workout Wednesday is all about Tableau Challenges made by Zen Masters in the Tableau community, who post it through their website and Twitter in order to make other people try to replicate them. It is a lot of hard work to actually find out how somebody else has approached the challenge
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Mon 16 Apr 2018 | Laura Scavino
Be a Woman, Be a Data Scientist
Why women in Data #Beawomanindataviz event Only the 18% of data scientist is a Woman [https://www.quora.com/Is-the-female-to-male-ratio-higher-for-data-scientists-than-for-software-engineers-If-so-why-is-that] and women account for only the 26% of data jobs in the US. [https://www.forbes
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Tue 10 Apr 2018 | Laura Scavino
Regular Expressions in Tableau and Alteryx
Today Philip [https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/blog/philip-mannering/]explained how to proficiently use Regular Expressions in both Tableau and Alteryx for extracting and restructuring data. It is possible to use Regular Expressions in Alteryx with both the Formula and the Regex tools
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Mon 09 Apr 2018 | Laura Scavino
Colour coded window average
Last week project for the Data School, was really interesting but I only had couple of hours to create something on Tableau and present it to the rest of the team
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Thu 05 Apr 2018 | Laura Scavino
Create a Tile Map in Tableau
Ever wanted to build a map without using a real map? I made a quick Tile Map of the United States of America in Tableau. Just beware that not all the countries are easy to recognise when using shapes
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Wed 04 Apr 2018 | Laura Scavino
User Filters in Tableau Server - Part 1
I am going to give a simple explanation on how to create a customised view based on the user, which is looking at the Dashboard. I am using one of the two methods to do that, you can find the second method on Robbin Vernooij [https://www.thedataschool.co
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Tue 03 Apr 2018 | Laura Scavino
Create a word cloud on Tableau
Today during a client project I learnt a really easy way to visualise words on Tableau and it reminded me about one of my University projects analysing survey data. I find this visualisation very useful where there are just a few words to be visualised, which repeats more than once
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Mon 02 Apr 2018 | Laura Scavino
#MakeoverMonday Tableau tip on how to highlight a selected value
For my latest #MakeoverMonday on wine production, I decided to use a really quick table calculation which relies on the use of parameters. The quick trick helped me select the desired country but instead of highlighting it with an highlighter, I decided to use this simple trick
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Mon 26 Mar 2018 | Laura Scavino
How to forecast in Alteryx
Businesses often need to create a forecast in order to strategically plan their investments or simply their effort. A really good way of doing that is through Time series tool on Alteryx. The main reason behind forecasting is to capture genuine data on a cyclical basis
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Sat 24 Mar 2018 | Laura Scavino
Decision Tree tool in Alteryx
Decision tree analysis,  as a predictive learning,  is used in Statistics, Machine Learning and Data Mining in order to visualise  data for decision making. The main goal is to create a model that predicts the value of a target variable based on several input variables
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Thu 22 Mar 2018 | Laura Scavino
First Meet & Greet as a member of the Data School
Second time I attend one but this time as a member of the team. Super excited back then to hear about how cool the company is
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Thu 15 Mar 2018 | Laura Scavino
Profitable days with LOD in Tableau
Quick Tableau tip on how to visualise the number of days which are highly profitable, profitable and unprofitable across four different years. Open the Superstore sample data and follow along with this simple example in Tableau
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Tue 13 Mar 2018 | Laura Scavino
Less is More with Parameters
Using Parameters in Calculated field can improve the quality of your visualisation, since it is possible to show different things without overcrowding the Dashboard. Parameters can be used in different ways on Tableau, for instance to flick through different measures in the same sheet
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Mon 12 Mar 2018 | Laura Scavino
Data helps businesses improve their strategy
Many organisations started looking at customer databases to take advantage of the great amount of information available to them. The correct use of data analytics tools helps businesses  better targeting existing customers and also qualifying potential new ones
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Mon 05 Mar 2018 | Laura Scavino
Compare seasons in Tableau
During last week project for the Huntingtonshire council, I learnt how to compare different values across seasons rather than months. It is possible to have an overview in different seasons and it is useful to track sales trends for any commercial activity
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Tue 20 Feb 2018 | Laura Scavino
How is Tableau shaping Business Intelligence worldwide?
Today at the Data School I had the chance to meet Tableau’s Senior Vice President in the EMEA region: James Eiloart, who came in to inspire DS8 cohort
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Sun 18 Feb 2018 | Laura Scavino
The beauty of data: my first project on Alteryx
As part of the application process for the Data School, I was asked to create something on Tableau Software with any data set
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Sun 18 Feb 2018 | Laura Scavino
Why should I use Alteryx?
During the first week at the Data School, I have been introduced to a magic software called Alteryx, which if used in the correct way can make data analysis clearer with greater level of details
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Mon 12 Feb 2018 | Laura Scavino
First day at the data school was very promising
The data school offered me a position for DS8 as a Trainee Consultant and I will be undertaking an initial training followed by clients’ placements
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