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We believe that sharing knowledge and expertise is key to driving innovation and growth in the data community. That's why we're excited to share our latest insights, tutorials, and industry trends with you through this blog.
Written by our team of experienced data consultants, these posts aim to solidify their own learning while giving back to the community.
Tue 07 Apr 2026 | Martin Regan
Tableau Tips Tuesday: Saving Time and Keeping Your Workbooks Clean
As we’ve now completed multiple client projects at the Data School, I’ve been building a lot of dashboards in Tableau.
One thing I’ve found is that getting consistent formatting across multiple sheets can take longer than expected
Mon 06 Apr 2026 | Tomo Mensendiek
Extract Custom Color Palettes from Packaged Workbooks
You might encounter a situation where you receive packaged workbooks from a colleague or client that include a custom color palette. While you can use that custom palette within the workbook itself, any new work you create won’t automatically have access to it
Wed 01 Apr 2026 | Jacob Aronson
Developing a Star Trek Dashboard Part 2: Adventures in Dialogue Parsing
Welcome back to my series on developing an involved Star Trek: The Next Generation dashboard! When we last left off, I had a chopped the combined scripts of all 178 episodes into about 500,000 rows of data where each row (loosely) represented a line of dialogue from the show
Tue 07 Apr 2026 | Matthias Albert
dbt Snapshots and Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCDs)
How to SCD in dbt. And what are snapshots anyway?
Mon 06 Apr 2026 | Aschraf Aouina
Datentypkonvertierung in Microsoft Power BI
Beim Importieren von Daten in Microsoft Power BI kann es vorkommen, dass Datums- und Zahlenformate nicht korrekt interpretiert werden. Ursache dafür sind unterschiedliche regionale Einstellungen (Locale), die festlegen, wie Formate wie Datum (z. B. TT.MM.JJJJ vs
Tue 24 Mar 2026 | Shabnam Dost
Order of Operations in Tableau
This week I want to write about the 'Order of Operations' in Tableau...
First things first...
Step 0: The Structure
Before you even see a sheet, you have to tell Tableau how the data fields even talk to each other. Joins and Relationships come into the story
Sat 04 Apr 2026 | Shivam Wadhia
Level of Detail Expressions in Tableau: An Intro
Level of Detail (LOD) expressions can be technical, so this is the first of two posts. We begin with the basics.
Aside from table calculations, which I've written about here, and level of detail calculations, Tableau has two other calculation types. We start with these
Sun 05 Apr 2026 | Durkka Rajasegaram
Workout Wednesday 2023 week 31: LODs
The different LODs needed (and why) to create the bar chart for the Workout Wednesday week 31 challenge.
Thu 26 Mar 2026 | Fotiana Yan
Fill Down 3 Ways: Alteryx, Tableau Prep, and Power Query Compared
This week, I've decided that I needed to refresh some skills that I've learned a few weeks ago and what better way to do that other than Data Preppin Challenges!
Thu 02 Apr 2026 | Le Luu
REST API Connector in Tableau
In the past, I've written several blogs on how to fetch data from calling an API using Python scripts with TabPy in both Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep Builder. If you haven’t checked them out yet, feel free to explore those posts (Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep)
Fri 03 Apr 2026 | Janina Grauel
Color: Stop Decorating and Start Designing
Using my LinkedIn feed as an indicator, I can confidently say that color is one of the most discussed topics in the data viz community. Coming from a fashion design background, the idea that color needs intention is very familiar
Thu 02 Apr 2026 | Lily Kiziriya
How to: Cross Tab in Alteryx
You may know it by another name: the pivot. In Alteryx, you want to use the crosstab tool when you want to reshape your table so that a subset of the data points from your rows can be separated into a new column.
Lets look at the setup for the cross tab
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