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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.
Mon 04 May 2026 | Hewan Zewdu
don't ignore .gitignore
This post explains what a .gitignore file is and how to create one, along with how to hide files once they've been published
Mon 04 May 2026 | Jacob Aronson
Dynamic Curved Line Charts in Tableau
Tableau's default line chart makes linear connections between the points on a line, which is intuitive and makes the fewest assumptions about what happens between the points
Mon 04 May 2026 | Vivek Patel
Dashboard Week Last Day: Exploring Hudson Valley Heritage Sites with Nearby Trails
For the last part of Dashboard Week, the goal was to use Hudson Valley Heritage Sites data to see which locations are within a two-hour drive of The Information Lab office
Thu 16 Apr 2026 | Tomo Mensendiek
Pokémon Stats Analysis in Tableau
This project uses a Kaggle dataset covering every Pokémon from Generations 1–9. Each row represents a Pokémon, with 43 columns including stats like HP, attack, and defense, as well as categorical attributes such as type, genus, and whether the Pokémon is legendary or mythical
Thu 30 Apr 2026 | Oliver Furtak
Einfach Erklärt: Fixed LOD Expressions
In den ersten Wochen meines Trainings in der Data School habe ich gelernt, dass eine der größten Herausforderungen in Tableau die Steuerung der Aggregationsebene ist
Sun 03 May 2026 | Arushi Pant
Tableau's Order of Operations: Its Impact on Table Calculations and LODS
Recently, I was doing the following workout on Wednesday : https://www.workout-wednesday.com/2026w07tab/
I really enjoyed the challenge! And I learnt something quite interesting! The impact that Tableau's Order of Operations has on both Table calculations and LODs
Sun 03 May 2026 | George Chachkes
Dashboard Week Day 4: Using the Google Places API for a Creative Viz
For the final day of dashboard week, we were given a list of heritage site names and cities in upstate New York and given the prompt of finding the next heritage site location The Information Lab should go together for a hike
Sat 02 May 2026 | Janina Grauel
ETL-Vergleich: Tableau Prep, Alteryx & Power Query
In diesem Beitrag vergleiche ich, wie die drei gängigen ETL-Tools Tableau Prep, Alteryx und Power Query dieselbe Aufgabenstellung bewältigen.
Die Grundlage bildet ein Datensatz zum britischen Gender Pay Gap aus der PreppinData Challenge 2022 Week 12
Sun 03 May 2026 | Vivek Patel
Dashboard Week: Rebuilding a Tableau Dashboard in Power BI
Day 3 of Dashboard Week focused on recreating an existing Tableau dashboard in Power BI. This was a great way to understand both dashboard design and functionality at a deep level.
Quick note before diving in: I was unfortunately sick during Day 2, so I had to pause my work
Sun 03 May 2026 | Harvey Lloyd-Smith
An Introduction to Regular Expressions
Regular Expressions (RegEx) are a sequence of characters used to define a pattern within a text. They are a powerful tool for extracting specific parts of a messy string of data, something more crude text cleaning functions fail at
Sun 03 May 2026 | Rosh Khan
Basic Git and Terminal Commands
Terminal Basics
Moving around your local machine.
CommandDescriptionlsList: See everything inside your current folder.cdChange Directory: Go to your main home folder.cd ..Go Back: Move up one level (to the "parent" folder).cd desktopMove into your Desktop folder
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