Micol Bedarida

Micol joined The Information Lab after completing a Physics MSci at Imperial College London. Upon discovering interactive Tableau dashboards during a summer internship, Micol became enthusiastic about data visualisation and decided she wanted to be an expert herself. Her degree gave her sound analytical and numerical skills, but rarely a creative outlet. At The Information Lab, Micol is looking forward to combining her creativity and her passion for numbers through data analysis and visualisations. By building compelling dashboards, she hopes to make data analytics accessible and enjoyable to non-data-analysts.

Apart from data analytics, Micol loves reading books in different languages and experimenting in the kitchen.

Blog Posts

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Thu 10 Sep 2020 | Micol Bedarida
How to Set up an Incremental Refresh in Tableau
Setting up an incremental refresh on Tableau server is very easy. If you are wondering why you should set up an incremental refresh, have a read through this blog by Luke [https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/luke-donovan/full-vs-incremental-refresh-server-tip/]
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Mon 03 Aug 2020 | Micol Bedarida
Spatial functions in Alteryx
Next week I will be running a teaching session about Spatial tools in Alteryx. While prepping for this session, I came across some underrated functions in Alteryx: Spatial Functions. Say you had latitude and longitude fields and you wanted to create spatial points from them
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Wed 15 Jul 2020 | Micol Bedarida
How to input data set values into an Alteryx drop-down menu
Whilst building an Alteryx App for a Weekly Challenge I came across a problem: there isn’t an immediately-apparent way in Alteryx to populate a drop-down menu from a column in your dataset
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Tue 07 Jul 2020 | Micol Bedarida
How to merge spatial objects in Alteryx
Did you know there is a ‘spatial tool’ in Alteryx that is not a Spatial Tool? Say you wanted to combine several spatial objects into one. The quickest way to do that is with a summarize tool. 1. Import your spatial file into Alteryx. Here I have a data set with the boroughs of NYC
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Wed 24 Jun 2020 | Micol Bedarida
Dimensions and Measures in Tableau – what they are and how to use them
It is very difficult to talk about dimensions and measures without talking about continuous and discrete fields (also known as green and blue). That is because dimensions are typically discrete blue fields, and measures are typically continuous green fields
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Thu 11 Jun 2020 | Micol Bedarida
Dynamic Date Level
Did you know you can let the user choose the date level in Tableau dashboards? I didn’t til yesterday, and it is now top of my list of cool Tableau features (I also didn’t have one of those til yesterday). To do this, we will use parameters
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Tue 09 Jun 2020 | Micol Bedarida
Commenting on a field – Tiny Tableau Tip
One of the many things Andy taught us today is how to comment on a field. This is nothing earth-shattering, but if, like me, you used to document your dataset in a separate Word document (please don’t judge me!) then this tip is very useful. 1
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Mon 01 Jun 2020 | Micol Bedarida
First Day of DS20…Working from home!
I would have never imagined that I’d start my first job working from home. But just over a week ago, it became much more real. We all received laptops shipped to our homes together with other goodies. This was a very exciting moment
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