Louise Le

After graduating with a Medical Engineering degree and a year working as a university researcher under her belt, Louise decided a career in engineering was not for her. Reflecting on what she enjoyed most about her past experiences, she realised she loved solving problems and finding interesting information from numbers. A career in data of some sort seemed like the right way to go.

Discovering the Data School and trying out Tableau opened her eyes to the possibilities in analytics (and she realised she suffered through Excel graphs, all the while Tableau existed). Everything was intuitive and the dashboards looked incredible. But this was just the tip of the iceberg; there was still Alteryx and so much more in Tableau to discover. Louise wanted to learn it all! She knew a place in DS11 was what she wanted and here she is.

In her spare time, Louise likes to read, binge watch TV and anime, and go to the gym (she’s still working on that last one).

Blog Posts

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Fri 01 Feb 2019 | Louise Le
How to colour scale a map using set actions!
I thought my Best of DS11 [https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/louise-le/the-best-of-ds11/] blog would be my final blog post on the Data School website but no, I have one quick blog post left. Set Actions
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Thu 31 Jan 2019 | Louise Le
The Best of DS11
This week is DS11’s last week of training. Next week, we’ll all be split up and sent to our placements for the next 6 months (eek!). We probably won’t all be back together for a while so I’ve been feeling quite reflective
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Mon 28 Jan 2019 | Louise Le
The Prep Off: Alteryx vs Tableau Prep Round 2
Two major contenders in the ring tonight: new but developing at light speed, Tableau Prep and tried and trusted, Alteryx Designer. Who will win this time after a draw in the last Prep Off? Watch the replay of Round 1 here [https://www.thedataschool.co
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Wed 23 Jan 2019 | Louise Le
Why You Should Apply For The Data School
Now that DS11 are approaching the end of our 4 months of training at the Data School and will soon be shipped off to our first of 4 placements, I have been reflecting on the experience and would like to convince you to apply for the Data School too
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Fri 18 Jan 2019 | Louise Le
Organising your Tableau Data Pane for Bliss and Harmony
Today DS11 and DS12 were treated to a talk from Simon Beaumont about data architecture, enabling customers to understand your dashboards, how to make your workbooks easy for others to pick up and more
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Thu 17 Jan 2019 | Louise Le
How to Prepare for your Alteryx Designer Core Exam
This month, many of DS11 are taking the Alteryx Designer Core Exam (as well as the Tableau QA), including myself. If you’re interested in my top tips on how to pass the Tableau QA, see my post here [https://www.thedataschool.co
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Mon 14 Jan 2019 | Louise Le
How to Teach Tableau/Alteryx : Louise's Experience
Last month, DS11 taught the public Tableau and Alteryx and this month, we are conducting webinars teaching the same content. Check out our meetup page [https://www.meetup
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Wed 02 Jan 2019 | Louise Le
Tableau Tip: Watch Out for Misleading Average Lines!
Tableau’s Analytics pane allows you to slap an average line onto your view. Drag, drop, done? Not quite. In this blog, I will show you an example of when the average line Tableau creates for you may not be doing what you think it does
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Wed 02 Jan 2019 | Louise Le
Louise's 2018 in Data
This time last year, I was a final year Medical Engineering student without a clear career path. Now, I’ve graduated and I have a job that I love – more than I expected to have by this time! Fig 1
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Mon 31 Dec 2018 | Louise Le
How to Prepare for your Tableau Specialist or Qualified Associate Exam
I passed the Tableau Desktop Qualified Associate exam today! 😀 In this post, I will go through: 1. The resources I found helpful while preparing for the exam 2. My experience of taking the exam 3
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Mon 24 Dec 2018 | Louise Le
Tableau Tip: Stop Your Viz In Tooltips From Being Filtered
For Dashboard Week Day 4, we looked at Seattle cycling data (see my blog here [https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/louise-le/dashboard-week-day-4-seattle-i-e-cyclist-heaven/]). I decided to incorporate Viz in Tooltips to enhance my infographic (Tableau Public here [https://public.tableau
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Thu 20 Dec 2018 | Louise Le
Dashboard Week Day 4 : Seattle, i.e. Cyclist Heaven
It’s day 4 of dashboard week and I am starting to fatigue. No matter! We push on. The Challenge Today’s dataset counts the number of cyclists riding through the roads of Seattle. Potentially very interesting for a Seattleite (/satellites) or a keen cyclist
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Wed 19 Dec 2018 | Louise Le
Dashboard Week Day 3 : Power BI for noobs
SPOILER ALERT: I like Power BI. Of course it has pros and cons, but overall, not too shabby. Woah, we’re half way there! Woahhhhh! It’s day 3 of Dashboard week which means we’re at the halfway point! See my viz from yesterday here [https://tabsoft.co/2GpuJVG]
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Tue 18 Dec 2018 | Louise Le
Dashboard Week - Day 2 : Everyone Loves a Pretty Map
My first day of Dashboard Week! Yesterday the rest of DS11 enjoyed vizzing >200M rows of data about snow ploughing while I watched from home (hurray for a coincidental day of annual leave). The Challenge This morning I was rested and ready to take on the challenges of the week
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Mon 10 Dec 2018 | Louise Le
How to Approach a Time-Limited Project
At the Data School, we are constantly challenged and pushed with limited time projects. This is to develop our time management capabilities, to teach us to set realistic goals and to give us the confidence and knowledge that we can do it
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Fri 07 Dec 2018 | Louise Le
Imposter Syndrome: Feeling like you belong
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Mon 03 Dec 2018 | Louise Le
How to Embed Spotify in your Vizzes
For my TIL Christmas Song viz in Figure 1 (see it here! [https://tabsoft.co/2Q8KPaz]), I embedded a Spotify playlist so you can listen to the music in the viz as you explore. Embedding a Spotify playlist/ track/ album can be great for adding another dimension to your vizzes
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Mon 26 Nov 2018 | Louise Le
How to Create a Custom Colour Palette
Did you know you can make your own colour palettes for Tableau? This is great for businesses and individuals who want to incorporate branding into your dashboards and to ensure regularity of colour in dashboards across your company
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Fri 23 Nov 2018 | Louise Le
The Prep Off: Alteryx vs Tableau Prep
The Prep Off… Two major contenders in the ring tonight: new kid on the block, Tableau Prep and reigning champion here at the Information Lab, Alteryx Designer
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Mon 19 Nov 2018 | Louise Le
Louise's 6 Week Reflections
Has it been 6 weeks already?! As cliché as it is, time really has flown by. The Data School’s 11th cohort have just completed our 6th week of training and will be beginning our 7th week at the time of this post’s publishing
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Fri 09 Nov 2018 | Louise Le
Custom Views: Why they're great and how to make them
Among the many things we learned during our first official Tableau Server lesson with Jonathan MacDonald, we learned the importance of an often underutilised Server feature, custom view
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Mon 05 Nov 2018 | Louise Le
Tableau Prep: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Since my last blog, I have used Tableau Prep 2018.2 to clean five different datasets so I think it’s a good time to discuss the good, the bad and the ugly of Prep… The Good As with Tableau Desktop, Prep is pretty
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Wed 31 Oct 2018 | Louise Le
Tableau Prep: Getting Started Guide
Tableau Prep version 2018.1.1 was released in April this year. Six months on and five versions later, Emily Chen introduced DS11 to Tableau Prep 2018.3.1. My first thoughts? Its user interface is modern and intuitive with some great functions but there are some limitations
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Sat 27 Oct 2018 | Louise Le
Making Every "Show Me" Chart From Scratch: Part Two
Ah… The much-awaited Part Two of my ‘Making Every “Show Me” Chart From Scratch” series (see part one here [https://feedmedata.wordpress.com/2018/10/20/making-every-show-me-chart-part-one/] )
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Sat 20 Oct 2018 | Louise Le
Making Every "Show Me" Chart From Scratch: Part One
Tableau has a super useful “Show Me” function which allows you to choose from 24 chart types based on dimensions and measures you select. This is a brilliant feature for beginners
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Tue 16 Oct 2018 | Louise Le
Tableau Public/Desktop: Getting Started Guide
We are currently well into our second week of the Data School; with the focus of this week being Tableau (i.e. the reason we all applied to this job)
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Sun 14 Oct 2018 | Louise Le
Avoid neglecting Alaska and Hawaii in your US maps
Why is Hawaii so far from the rest of the United States? Why is Canada in between Alaska and the rest of the United States? Trying to get Alaska and Hawaii in a dashboard with the other 48 states can lead to lots of wasted, empty space (as seen in Figure 1)
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Sun 14 Oct 2018 | Louise Le
Alteryx Designer: Getting Started Guide
DS11’s first week at the Data School was focused on introducing us to Alteryx; a super useful software for prepping messy data before visualising in Tableau. Amongst data preparation, Alteryx is also capable of spatial and predictive uses
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Sat 13 Oct 2018 | Louise Le
It's Official! First Day of the Data School
The Data School. DS11. Day one of the next chapter of our lives! A mix of nerves and excitement meant I hardly slept the night before and unfortunately, I came down with a cold. Some paracetamol pills later, I was ringing the buzzer for the Information Lab at 25 Watling Street
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