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The Data School has been paramount to our success at JLL. It has allowed us to bring in highly skilled Tableau and Alteryx consultants. It saves considerable time trying to recruit contractors as I know their skills and training are to the highest standard. Over the past 5 years my team has developed analytical insights which have generated multi million dollar savings of which a considerable amount can be attributed to the Data School consultants we have had working on projects.
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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.
Fri 10 Jul 2026 | Marcus Rocco
The Data Journey: Where Data Begins
Data is everywhere.
Whether you are shopping online, checking the weather, tracking your fitness goals, or watching sports, you interact with data every day
Sun 19 Jul 2026 | Gerard Najarro
Rebuilding My Fast Food Nutrition Dashboard
The first version of my Fast Food Nutrition Comparison dashboard looked finished. Bar chart, scatter plot with trend lines, a stacked macronutrient breakdown, a Top 10 highest-calorie-items list, a couple of filter actions tying it together. It looked like a dashboard, but it wasn't a good one
Tue 30 Jun 2026 | Britt van der Poel
Filtering Dimensions in Tableau Without Losing Rank
In Tableau, a rank functions as a table calc, which is calculated solely based on what's brought into the view
Tue 14 Jul 2026 | Maria Andreetti
A Guide to Dates and Times in Tableau Desktop
If you've ever used Tableau, you've probably tried to drag a date onto the shelf expecting line graph but got bars instead, or vice versa. Either way, you're left wondering what you did wrong.
Most of the time, it's due to whether the date field is blue or green
Thu 16 Jul 2026 | Ben Hayward
Alteryx Regex Tool
A Regular Expression is simply a sequence of characters that forms a search pattern. Instead of looking for a specific word like "Apple", you use RegEx to look for structural patterns, such as "three digits, followed by a dash, followed by four letters
Thu 16 Jul 2026 | Ben Hayward
Understand DAX Calculate
At its core, CALCULATE evaluates an expression in a context that is modified by the specific filters you define. It is the only function in DAX that can fundamentally change the filter context of a calculation.
* Expression: The calculation you want to perform (e.g. Total Sales)
Thu 16 Jul 2026 | Mila Kholodiy
Web Scraping in Alteryx: From Raw HTML to Actionable Data
Learn how to build a web scraping workflow in Alteryx to automatically collect and structure data from websites.
Thu 16 Jul 2026 | Kaori Ikarashi
My First Experience Teaching Tableau
Recently, I had the opportunity to deliver a Tableau training session. It was also my first experience teaching a group.
I thought the biggest challenge would be explaining Tableau. I had spent time preparing the presentation, planning demonstrations, and thinking through the practical exercises
Thu 16 Jul 2026 | Vaishnavi Shankar
Building a Spotify Streaming Timeline in Alteryx with JSON and Regex
I love Spotify Wrapped and the annual deep dive into my listening habits
Thu 16 Jul 2026 | Hayfaa Yaser Qays Al-Sheikh Hamid
Why Granularity Changed the Way I Look at Data
Have you ever opened your banking app and seen this?
£657.63 spent this month.
Useful? Absolutely.
But then you start asking questions.
How much did I spend on coffee?
How much went on groceries?
Did I really spend that much eating out?
That single number suddenly isn't enough
Thu 16 Jul 2026 | Hayfaa Yaser Qays Al-Sheikh Hamid
New to Data Analytics? What My First Week at The Data School Taught Me
Starting a new career is always exciting, but beginning my journey as a Data Consultant at The Information Lab's Data School was something I had been looking forward to for a long time
Thu 09 Jul 2026 | Skyla Patterson
Tableau Prep Basics: Understanding the UI
Tableau Prep is an application used to clean and prepare data for analysis. This blog will explain the interface, allowing for an understanding of what you can do in Prep. Specifically, we'll go over the flow pane, best practices for the flow pane, and the input pane
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