Ravi Mistry

Ravi’s interest in using and manipulating data piqued after discovering public sources of sports data. After using Excel for months, a tutorial into using Tableau in a intuitive and interactive way lead him to discover a whole new world of visualisation – The power and ease of use that Tableau provided introduced a whole world of data visualisation, full of interactive dashboards, colour pallets and bubbles.

The opportunity to join the Data School straight out of university was one that Ravi could not miss. Having studied Economics for the last four years, he is looking forward to learning from the data Jedis of Tableau and Alteryx.

When he’s not following his hometown football team Ipswich Town, Ravi is a keen enthusiast in contemporary technology as well as film & media.

Blog Posts

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Tue 22 Nov 2016 | Ravi Mistry
How many different ways can you create a calculation in Tableau? Here's 7.
1. Analysis > Create Calculated Field 2. Drop down (next to Dimensions) > Create Calculated Field 3. Right-click a blank space on the left hand pane > Create Calculated Field 4. Right-click a dimension, measure, set or parameter > Create > Calculated FieldorCreate Calculated Field 5
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Tue 03 Nov 2015 | Ravi Mistry
Back to the Future; Experiencing the Past (but also Power BI)
First, check out my post on Tableau 8.0.0 here [https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/ravi-mistry/back-to-the-future-adventures-with-tableau-8-0-0/] Following the small differences with Tableau 8, I almost expected 7.0.0 wasn’t going to be so bad
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Tue 27 Oct 2015 | Ravi Mistry
Back to the Future; Adventures with Tableau 8.0.0
I think that one of the things that I hate about ‘milestones’ and such is the finality and absolute nature of them
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Wed 30 Sep 2015 | Ravi Mistry
Going Rogue; Qlik vs. Tableau Part Two – Let there be Viz!
Part one of this post can be found here [https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/ravi-mistry/going-rogue-qlik-vs-tableau-part-one-connecting-to-data/] ; Last time out, we connected to data – The first step into a brave new world of visually analysing numbers through quick-fire analytics
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Sat 19 Sep 2015 | Ravi Mistry
Reviewing Week 13 - Let loose in the Community
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Thu 17 Sep 2015 | Ravi Mistry
Going Rogue; Qlik vs. Tableau Part One - Connecting to Data
My first experience with Tableau was using publically football data, which I had compiled into a spreadsheet for the 14-15 season, on Tableau Public
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Sun 06 Sep 2015 | Ravi Mistry
Why won't my parameter controlled view hide properly?
Last week, we had our fourth client project and within that, myself and Hashu found ourselves doing a dashboard makeover for the client and within this, one of our ideas for the dashboard included having a switch between two views, as shown on his blog [https://www.thedataschool.co
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Mon 31 Aug 2015 | Ravi Mistry
Real American Data for Real Estates in America - #DashboardWeek Day 5
Our final dashboard was one where we were given just a few hours to download, play with and build. Set on Friday, we looked at the Zillow Real Estate research database [http://www.zillow.com/research/data/]and were (as ever for the entire of last week) told to go away and build something
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Mon 31 Aug 2015 | Ravi Mistry
Developing Communication - #DashboardWeek Viz Number 4
The UN data challenge’ [https://unite.un.org/ideas/content/wsd2015-data-visualization-challenge]s deadline is just a few weeks away now, and using the data was the first time we we had to do some level of data preparation
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Wed 26 Aug 2015 | Ravi Mistry
#DashboardWeek - 100 days after Sandy Hook
There have been far too many gun deaths in the United States. Today’s dashboard took a sombre turn as we looked at “Mapping the Dead: Gun Deaths Since Sandy Hook” by the Huffington Post [http://data.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/gun-deaths] and took the data to create something for ourselves
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Wed 26 Aug 2015 | Ravi Mistry
#DashboardWeek Day 2 - An Olympic Effort
Dashboard week continues with our second visualisation, which was using a dataset from here [http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/] which was scraped by Andy. Given that we had about 3-4 hours to build, we got stuck in
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Tue 25 Aug 2015 | Ravi Mistry
Likes, Favourites & Mini Data
This week, we will be creating a dashboard a day, and to kick off the week we have all contributed to Andy’s Dear Data Two project [http://www.dear-data-two.com/], and sent things across to Mr Jeffrey Shaffer [https://twitter
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Fri 21 Aug 2015 | Ravi Mistry
Commanding Tableau Server to create .pdfs
When running Tableau Server, you are able to run a number of queries from Command Prompt (cmd.exe)  from the Start bar, and you should right-click and run it as administrator
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Thu 20 Aug 2015 | Ravi Mistry
Tableau Tip #4 - Serving up some rules to optimise your Tableau Server
We’ve had the legend that is Jonathan MacDonald teaching us Tableau Server this week, and the fact is, it’s been super cool. I have no knowledge of anything server related, so having JMac here as well as *the Guy* for Tableau Server, David Spezia coming in to run a master-class
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Thu 20 Aug 2015 | Ravi Mistry
Tip for using the Tooltip Tool
One of the best things about Tableau is the ability to interact with the data that you are looking at – It’s almost as if you can feel, explore and (I hesitate to say)  live the data that is in front of you
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Wed 19 Aug 2015 | Ravi Mistry
Tableau Tip #2 - How to create a parameter to highlight your views
Dashboards are one of the key ideas to which Tableau is built around
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Mon 17 Aug 2015 | Ravi Mistry
Get Data. Use Data. Fly.
I commute to work, and it’s a 2 hour door-to-door trip, and I tend to find little side projects which I largely start and not finish to do on the train journeys. Or I listen to podcasts, or nap
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Wed 12 Aug 2015 | Ravi Mistry
Councils, Combinations & LOD Calculations
Seven weeks have well and truly flown past, and each week seems to throw up different challenges
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Mon 10 Aug 2015 | Ravi Mistry
Partitioning, Prescriptions & Dashboard Design
The importance of a data dashboard is hard to misinterpret. After spending time on data preparation (which, in my last post [https://www.thedataschool.co
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Tue 28 Jul 2015 | Ravi Mistry
Teamwork, Table Calcs & a Tough Week
There is so much you can do with data. When I interviewed for this job, Tom Brown told me that he knows less about Tableau now than he did when he first used it. On the eve of our sixth week at the Data School, I am beginning to see where he’s coming from now
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Tue 14 Jul 2015 | Ravi Mistry
Tools, Tests and the Importance of 'Bio Breaks'
The last two weeks have flown past. Not only have we been exposed to more aspects of Tableau, we’ve had a crash course in Alteryx and been able to effectively connect with the Tableau community – And boy, was it great fun to be around people as enthusiastic about data’s potential as I am
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Sun 28 Jun 2015 | Ravi Mistry
Introductions, Jumbo Crayons & New Beginnings
I discovered Tableau [http://www.tableau.com/products/desktop]about three months ago, and promised to add it to my list of things to attempt to expert over the summer following university  – I’ve spent 4 years at the University of Plymouth studying for BSc (Hons
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