Data School Blog Roundup - June 2024

Compiled by Dylan Moore, Intern

General

1. What is data? by Tim Jeffries
2. Overcoming Adversity by Dillon Thomas
3. It's gonna get so much harder (A quick reflection on the first week of training) by Tim Jeffries
4. "So which do you prefer?" by Tim Jeffries
5. Data is (a piece of) cake by Thiago Santos

Tableau

1. Chart Swapping Without DZV in Tableau by Cecily Santiago
2. Dynamic Zone Visibility Without Calculated Fields by Cecily Santiago
3. How to Create a Monthly Timesheet in Tableau? by Sayd Abdul Tawab Hussainy
4. To The Point: Make a Custom Parameter Select with a Search Bar in Tableau Desktop by Jeffrey Brian Thompson
5. How to Avoid Scroll Bar in Tableau?! by Sayd Abdul Tawab Hussainy
6. Ein Anwendungsfall für die Kombination vom Satz und LOD-Ausdrücken in Tableau by Yan Peng
7. The "Profit Ratio" Problem by Yan Peng
8. Tableau | Parameter by Rui Pedro Fernandes Ramos
9. Getting Ready For The Tableau Certified Data Analyst by Bruno Gasparotto Ponne
10. Building Data Models by Becky Wright
11. How to Set Up a Date Field in a Year-Over-Year Dual Axis Chart by Yan Peng
12. Explaining with: Data Normalization and Percentile calculations in Tableau & Power BI by Robbin Vernooij

Alteryx

1. Alteryx Auto Insights: Usage, Requirements, Reflections by Cecily Santiago

Tableau Prep

1. Fire Prevention: Heatmapping Fire Risk Groups by Aileen Pfleiderer

Excalidraw

1. Top 5 dashboard design tools by Eugenia Losada Gamst
2. Data Models by Alfie King

Power BI

1. "So which do you prefer?" by Tim Jeffries
2. How to Build a Bar Chart with Gantt-Like Lines in Power BI by Salome Grasland
3. Building Data Models by Becky Wright
4. Scraping multiple webpages - in Power Query by Tim Jeffries

Other

1. DS45 - The beginning of my TIL journey, and reflecting on Day 2 by Becky Wright
2. Top 5 dashboard design tools by Eugenia Losada Gamst
3. Reflecting on the Importance of SOPs: Lessons from My Academic Journey by Aileen Pfleiderer
4. How To Be A Confident Newcomer by Yan Peng
5. Male wie ein Data Analyst by Rui Pedro Fernandes Ramos
6. Containers by Alfie King
7. What did it take to get into DS45? by Jenny Martin