by Joe Carr | May 20, 2019
Here’s something which might help you if you’ve ever needed to download a load of URLs which are only accessible if you are logged in. Normally, webscraping with Alteryx is pretty simple – you connect a text input containing the URL to a Download...
by Joe Carr | May 15, 2019
Here’s a quick Tableau Tip I credit to my protégé Andy K. You may have faced the problem where you want to use a colour from a colour palette – e.g. a categorical custom palette – but you cannot see the palette colours when you go to the Colour...
by Joe Carr | May 1, 2019
Today, Sophie decided that we look at UK baby name prevalence stats from the UNS website. However, we had to visualise it in a free, web-based software called Flourish. See below: https://flourish.studio/ Interestingly, Flourish seems to focus on very different things...
by Joe Carr | Apr 25, 2019
So, today our task ( https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/andy-kriebel/avengers/ ) was to prepare a dashboard from the following data source: https://data.world/fivethirtyeight/avengers The data source contains all the characters from Marvel’s Avengers and their...
by Joe Carr | Apr 23, 2019
For our first day of dashboard week, Andy gave us the difficult task of scraping the data.gov.uk website for lots and lots of files containing large expenses by NHS trusts. See here for our brief: https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/andy-kriebel/nhs-trusts/ This was...
