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The Data School has been paramount to our success at JLL. It has allowed us to bring in highly skilled Tableau and Alteryx consultants. It saves considerable time trying to recruit contractors as I know their skills and training are to the highest standard. Over the past 5 years my team has developed analytical insights which have generated multi million dollar savings of which a considerable amount can be attributed to the Data School consultants we have had working on projects.
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What our consultants are working on
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.
Wed 11 Mar 2026 | George Chachkes
Web Scraping Multiple Images in Python and Automatically Assigning them in Tableau
This blog will provide a guide to downloading multiple images from an online website and automatically assigning them as custom shapes in Tableau. I will walk through the process I took to web scrape chess opening images from lichess
Sun 15 Mar 2026 | Shabnam Dost
Desktop versus Prep: A Mindset Shift
Why Tableau Desktop is My Comfort Zone (and Prep is My Mount Everest)
The Desktop Way: Visual and Immediate
Tableau Desktop is addictive. You drag a pill "Sales" to Columns and the pill "Profit" to Rows and tada... You get a barchart. You see the result immediatelly
Fri 13 Mar 2026 | Oliver Furtak
From “Data Chaos” to Clarity: My First Week as a Data School Consultant
To kick off my series of blog posts about my training at the Data School, I want to give you a brief look into the daily tasks we tackle as aspiring Data Consultants. Moving forward, I’ll be regularly sharing my experiences regarding visualization, software, technical skills, and project management
Sun 15 Mar 2026 | Janina Grauel
HapPi-Birthday!
Heute ist der 14. März (3,14), der inoffizielle Geburtstag der mathematischen Konstante Pi (π)
Fri 13 Mar 2026 | Janina Grauel
Ist das die beste statistische Grafik aller Zeiten?
In seinem Buch The Visual Display of Quantitative Information bezeichnet Edward R. Tufte Charles Minards Karte von Napoleons Russlandfeldzug 1812 als die wohl beste statistische Grafik aller Zeiten
Thu 12 Mar 2026 | Francesca Plaskett
Back to Basics: Calculating ranks in Tableau Prep, Power Query and Alteryx
Discover how to add rankings into your data preparation across three key platforms.
Fri 13 Mar 2026 | Laura Brylka
Leaving the bubble, embracing the unknown: my first two weeks at the Data School
In my very first blog post, I would like to tell you about the impressions I gained during my first two weeks at the data school. But let me introduce myself a little bit. In my previous life, all I ever knew was academic research
Thu 12 Mar 2026 | Shabnam Dost
Endlich ist es soweit...
Liebes Tagebuch,
Heute war es endlich so weit. Es ist der 2. März. Für mich heißt das: Neuer Monat, neue Stadt und vor allem mein erster Arbeitstag. Ich bin heute Morgen aufgewacht mit einem Mix aus Vorfreude und großem Chaos im Kopf.
Kurz darauf hieß es: Willkommen in The Information Lab
Wed 11 Mar 2026 | Britt van der Poel
Using RegEx in Alteryx
RegEx (short for Regular Expression) is a sequence of characters that allows a user to extract a subset of a string from a field
Thu 12 Mar 2026 | Adil Ahmad
Sun burst
This blog will take you through how to create a sun burst chart as seen in my End Of Year Overview dashboard.
Take a look at it here.
Creating The Chart Structure
The first step to creating the chart is to create a calculated field that uses the makepoint function to create a point at 0,0
Wed 11 Mar 2026 | Francesca Plaskett
A step-by-step on creating sun burst adjacent charts in Tableau
Follow along in a beginner's guide to creating these fun sun burst style charts in Tableau.
Wed 11 Mar 2026 | George Chachkes
Extracting and Transforming my Online Chess Data using Python and Tableau Prep
Playing speed chess online is a fun hobby, but it does not necessarily lend itself to chess improvement. It is very easy to lose a game, and instead of doing the responsible thing and reviewing the mistakes, start another game
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