Soha Elghany

Soha Elghany

Soha is a psychologist that developed an intrigue for data during her MSc in psychosis. She conducted a research study into factors affecting sense of presence in a virtual reality social environment, which has been submitted to the journal of Cyberpsychology, Behaviour and Social Networking. This was Soha's first insight into the impact data and research can have, and she wanted to be able to answer more complex in-depth questions with data. Her experience encouraged her to explore a career within the data field and led her to encounter Tableau, and the integral role of storytelling in data can have.

Outside of her passion for data, she is a future yogi that enjoys expressing her creativity through her art and losing herself in fiction.

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Sat 25 Aug 2018 | Soha Elghany
Tips for the Tableau Desktop Qualified Associate exam!
I recently took the Tableau Desktop Qualified Associate exam and passed after 2 months of training at the data school, so I felt compelled to write a quick guide about the resources I utilised
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Tue 21 Aug 2018 | Soha Elghany
How to visualise missing dates? #tableautip
I’m going to show you 2 different ways you can show a gap between your missing values in your time series graph
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Mon 20 Aug 2018 | Soha Elghany
Dashboard week: calculating distance
Friday marked the last day of dashboard week the dataset was about the locations of the bathrooms in the city of Vancouver, there was a time limit to produce something insightful in a visualisation
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Fri 17 Aug 2018 | Soha Elghany
Dashboard week: knowledge is key
For today’s dashboard week we received data about major league baseball containing 147 years worth of baseball data from theretrosheet [https://www.retrosheet.org/gamelogs/index.html]. This was also parsed using the XML tool and we had to use the data dictionary [https://www.retrosheet
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Wed 15 Aug 2018 | Soha Elghany
Dashboard week: finding a story
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Wed 15 Aug 2018 | Soha Elghany
Dashboard week: decoding the data
How do Americans spend their time was our dataset this week from Andy Kriebel [https://www.thedataschool.co
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Tue 14 Aug 2018 | Soha Elghany
Dashboard week: generate rows to get more results
For dashboard week: day 1 we had to web scrape the results table of the Prudential ride London from their official site: https://results.prudentialridelondon.co
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Mon 16 Jul 2018 | Soha Elghany
How to add multiple reference lines in your data visualisation?
Alongside with Laine [https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/blog/laine-caruzca/], we worked together on creating calculated fields to create dynamic reference lines that marked every product release date as shown in the graph below
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Thu 12 Jul 2018 | Soha Elghany
Calculating working business hours in Alteryx
The most common request you will receive is to calculate something based on work hours especially concerning questions around productivity, hours and sales. Laine has a detailed blog post on Part 1 of calculating business hours which you can access: here [https://www.thedataschool.co
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Mon 25 Jun 2018 | Soha Elghany
All about parameters: part 2 #tableautip
In this tableau tip, I’m going to show you how you can link 2 parameters together and get them both to operate together just like in the image below
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Sat 23 Jun 2018 | Soha Elghany
All about parameters: part 1 #tableautip
What is a parameter? Parameters are a dynamic field that offers the user the ability to interact with your dashboard, it also adds a degree of flexibility to your dashboard
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Wed 20 Jun 2018 | Soha Elghany
How to create dots at the end of your line #tableautip
In this tableau tip I’m going to show you how to create dots at the end your line graph using the Superstore Sales data in this example: A Line Graph is one of the most frequently used graphs to show trends and analyse how the data has changed over time
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Tue 19 Jun 2018 | Soha Elghany
Blacking out your map #tableautip
For this map in Tableau, I want to show the top 3 ranked states by region that had the highest amount of profit. For the rest of the states that were ranked below the top 3, I wanted them to be blacked out
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Sat 16 Jun 2018 | Soha Elghany
Understanding Alteryx as a SQL user: part 1
SQL is one of the most common programming language used for designing, managing and analyzing data
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