Maleeha Ahmed

Maleeha graduated with a BSc degree in Psychology. Throughout her studies there was a heavy focus on research (qualitative and quantitative) and data analytics using SPSS.

Upon graduating Maleeha has searched for a career utilising her skills gained from her degree. Through this time she had heard about the Data School. While researching and learning the basics of Tableau, she became fascinated with the tool. Being able to divulge into data sets and easily utilise all the information available.

Maleeha since then has set her sights into a career in data analytics with a heavy focus using Tableau.

Blog Posts

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Fri 01 Feb 2019 | Maleeha Ahmed
Formatting - Creating Lines In Your Tableau Dashboard
Creating a line within your dashboard is simple, but you just need to know how. When you create your dashboard, you are able to drag in a “Blank” on to where you would like your line. Here I have dragged a “Blank” just under my title
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Fri 01 Feb 2019 | Maleeha Ahmed
Customer Retention Graph
A customer retention graph allows you see how many customers come back to your company each year, from their first year of order. I will then explain how to turn this into a percent of the total for that year. For this example, I will be using superstore data
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Tue 01 Jan 2019 | Maleeha Ahmed
Common Baseline Graph With Parameter (Part 2)
In the first [https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/maleeha-ahmed/creating-a-common-baseline-chart-part-1/]step [https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/maleeha-ahmed/creating-a-common-baseline-chart-part-1/], I have shown how to create a common baseline graph
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Tue 01 Jan 2019 | Maleeha Ahmed
Creating a Common Baseline Chart (Part 1)
A common baseline chart will allow you to create a view which will show each dimension starting at the same time to compare their overall trend. From each product’s beginning to end
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Wed 19 Dec 2018 | Maleeha Ahmed
Dashboard Week - Day 3
Today’s task required us to use Power BI for the First time. It only took 15 minutes within using the tool did I become a fan. I find it easy to build different chart types without having to create any complicated calculations (depending on what you want to accomplish)
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Tue 18 Dec 2018 | Maleeha Ahmed
Dashboard Week - Day 2
For day 2, Andy presented us with very clean data. The data was about police body cam use, in New Orleans. The problem I faced, to begin with, was that I felt that the data was too simple and did not have enough information to create a visualisation with
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Mon 17 Dec 2018 | Maleeha Ahmed
Dashboard Week - Day 1
First task – Download a Shapefile with a few Thousand records. Second task –  Download a file with 250 Million records. Third task  – Try to be productive while you wait 2 and a half hours for the Second file to be downloaded
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Thu 06 Dec 2018 | Maleeha Ahmed
How To Use A Parameter To Create A Custom Sort Based On Multiple Measures & View "N" Records (Part 2)
This is Part Two of this blog. From part 1 please follow the link: > How To Use A Parameter To Create A Custom Sort Based On Multiple Measures (Part 1) [https://www.thedataschool.co
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Thu 06 Dec 2018 | Maleeha Ahmed
How To Use A Parameter To Create A Custom Sort Based On Multiple Measures (Part 1)
If you would like to create a view with multiple measures, you may want to allow your audience to choose which measure they would like to sort the view in and in which direction they would like to view it i.e. ascending or descending
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Tue 27 Nov 2018 | Maleeha Ahmed
The Throttle Tool - Alteryx
When web scraping, one of the problems you may come across is being blocked from a site as you have tried to access it too many times in a short period of time. One tip I found out during our web scraping sessions was about using the Throttle tool
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Tue 27 Nov 2018 | Maleeha Ahmed
Multi-Row Formula Tool – Filling in the blanks – Alteryx
The Multi-Row Formula Tool has a variety of uses. Within this blog I will be explaining how to use this tool to fill in missing gaps within a data field. Every value within the Value column does not have a date associated to it
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Thu 22 Nov 2018 | Maleeha Ahmed
Creating Clusters In Tableau
Tableau allows you to cluster A Dimension based on multiple Measures in a quick and efficient way. Step 1: To be able to create clusters you must start with one dimension and two measures in a scatterplot diagram
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Wed 17 Oct 2018 | Maleeha Ahmed
Creating A Calendar View In Tableau
Using a Calendar chart can be an impactful way to showcase information for a particular month in a view. All dates used for this graph will be discrete. 1. Drag Date into Columns. Then turn Date type into weekday (discrete). 2
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