Resources for Early Data Schoolers

Greetings fellow data schooler. Welcome to the program. Perhaps you have forgotten how to file an expense report? Or maybe you're wondering where all of The Information Lab's learning resources are consolidated? Need a link to the Makeover Monday challenges? Not to worry, friend, I have compiled a list of every platform, tool and resource that's been made available to us newbies. Links are embedded in the name of each platform.

A warning: this may be an incomplete list! I'll make amendments if needed.

Convo

A one stop shop for all company-wide communications. By default, everything is shared with everyone...

bob

HR Platform. You might have signed your onboarding documents here.

Gusto

2nd HR Platform. We get paid through here!

FreeAgent

Submit your hours worked and any expense reports here.

Notion (Wiki)

TONS of helpful information about working at The Information Lab can be found here.

The Learning Hub

Great learning resources. They may be useful if you ever need to catch up.

SpaceIn

Our super-hip state-of-the-art video conferencing app.

Tableau Server

Our shared drive where you can publish Tableau projects. The main sites are "The Data School" and "The Information Lab". There are many unused sites such as "Powerpuff Girls."

Google Drive

It's Google Drive! Good luck finding your way around it.

Gmail

Woohoo! Checking emails!

LastPass

Download this to help store your password securely, outside your browser.

Twitter

While as of writing this post Twitter seems to be on its way out (yes I am crossing my fingers), we use it here to keep up with the world's data community at-large. Some great accounts to follow (an incomplete list):

Andy Kriebel: @VizWizBI

Tableau Tim: @TableauTim

Carl Allchin: @Datajedininja

Toby Sharpe: @tobysharpe

Sam Shurmer: @lordoforange

Valerija Kirjackaja: @whereismytrain

Michael McFadden: @MMcFadden93

Very helpfully, Michael has compiled a list of all DSNY cohorts here: https://twitter.com/MMcFadden93/lists

Tableau Free Training Videos

A compilation of all sorts of Tableau training videos. Who needs the DS when everything is online for free? Oh wait, we get paid.

Mockaroo

A super helpful website that lets you generate a specific collection of data, up to 1000 rows.

Preppin' Data Tableau Prep Challenges

Unless the curriculum has changed drastically, you'll likely be doing some of these Tableau Prep challenges your first week.

Makeover Monday Tableau Challenges

Tableau challenges! Andy does these live every week.

Workout Wednesday

Alteryx Weekly Challenges

Check the Weekly Challenge Index for the list of all challenges.

The Data School Website

Of course, The Data School's website, where you are now. You'll write blog posts hopefully better than this one.

When you're browsing through all these wonderful sites, by default you'll be set up with Google Chrome. Personally, I would recommend Mozilla Firefox instead as it's just as functional and easy to use while simultaneously protecting your privacy across the web. I also highly recommend pairing it with uBlock Origin to avoid distracting ads and other manipulative web elements.

Good luck!

Author:
Lex Devlin
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