by Joe Carr | Mar 24, 2019
Here’s an Alteryx quick tip which might save you a lot of time in the future when using the Select tool. Have you ever had to tick box after box in Select because there is no obvious way to tick multiple boxes at once? Well, the good news is you can tick multiple...
by Joe Carr | Mar 3, 2019
In Tableau, table calculations are a quick and easy way to manipulate data in the view to gain insights and also organise the data. The INDEX function is one example of the latter. Essentially, INDEX() ranks each row. Crucially, as it is a table calc, the ranking can...
by Joe Carr | Feb 28, 2019
What do you do if you require names in a different format to what you have? For example… All of your names are in the datasource as follows: And you want Well, the key is to use string functions to find the gap between the first name and surname. However, the relative...
by Joe Carr | Feb 26, 2019
Last week we (DS13) spent a day running through the basics of Tableau Server with JMac. We also had a go on Tableau Web Editor to understand how it compares to Tableau Desktop. This involved building graphs with all sorts of features e.g. filters, dual axis, to see...
by Joe Carr | Feb 7, 2019
I just want to preface this by saying I have no idea how to write a blog so apologies in advance. Anyway. as it’s my first blog, I’ll start with a little bit about me. It’s fair to say I’ve followed a pretty normal life so far, coming from the Home Counties to study...
