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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.
Tue 19 May 2026 | Holly Andersen
Getting Started with Bookmarks and Buttons in Power BI
One of the easiest ways to add interactivity to a Power BI report is with bookmarks.
Bookmarks allow you to capture the current state of a report page and return to it later
Tue 02 Jun 2026 | Mila Kholodiy
Navigation Buttons in Tableau vs. Power BI
Navigation buttons play a key role in creating intuitive dashboards. Tableau often uses parameters and calculated fields for dynamic navigation, whereas Power BI relies on built-in buttons and bookmarks, making navigation quicker to implement.
Tue 02 Jun 2026 | Jude Royall
Relationships in a Star Schema
This blog looks at how relationships connect fact and dimension tables within a star schema.
Mon 01 Jun 2026 | Sean Fei
Managing Projects: How to be a Project Manager
Last week, I had the privilege of leading my cohort as the project manager for a mock client project. Our client was Richard Roast (Jacob from cohort 11) and his company Rich Roast Coffee Inc. As a stakeholder in the company, Richard wanted analysis for 3 different metrics of performance:
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Thu 28 May 2026 | Stefani Hermanto
Tips For Client Presentations
In the few weeks I've been at The Information Lab, I've completed several mini-projects where I presented my work to mock clients. Since presentations can be intimidating, I wanted to pass along some tips that I found helpful, particularly for budding consultants.
1. Prepare an outline
Mon 01 Jun 2026 | Gerardo Najarro
Coming Back to Power BI With New Eyes
The first time I opened Power BI I had no idea what I was doing. I was an education data intern at the International Rescue Committee, and my supervisor had asked me to build three reports. One to give teachers a snapshot of the clients they were serving
Fri 08 May 2026 | Kate Crawford
Manage Multiple Versions of Python with pyenv
Python Managers are command line tools that allow you to keep multiple Python versions on your machine and choose which version to use based on your environment
Mon 01 Jun 2026 | Shivam Wadhia
Dashboard Week Day 4: Goodreads
Last day of dashboard week, and a massive change of pace from yesterday.
Today, we were given Goodreads data between 2006 and 2017. We were given two tables: a books table, containing data on the books that were on the site, and a table containing reviews for all the books
Sat 30 May 2026 | Vaishnavi Shankar
Creating a Dynamic Sports Standings Race Chart in Tableau Desktop
This project began as a data preparation challenge, where the final visualisation was provided as the end goal. After reshaping the data in Tableau Prep to meet the required structure, the next step was to recreate and enhance the visualisation in Tableau Desktop
Fri 29 May 2026 | Ellie Kershenbaum
Dashboard Week Day 4: Goodreads Infographic
Brief
For our final day of Dashboard Week we were tasked with transforming Goodreads datasets story-driven infographic using Tableau. Moving away from standard business dashboards, we had to focus more on narrative flow, simplicity and graphic design
Mon 01 Jun 2026 | Elda Ketena
Dashboard Day - Week 3
For the third day of Dashboard Week, our challenge shifted toward spatial analysis and working with APIs
Mon 01 Jun 2026 | Elda Ketena
Dashboard Week - Day 4
And onto the final day of training!
The brief was to use Goodreads data to create an infographic dashboard leaning closer to data journalism than standard business analysis.
Data Preparation
Before designing, I had to see what fields I was working with
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