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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.
Tue 14 Jul 2026 | Louis Phipps
How To Create a Momentum Chart in Tableau
What is a Momentum Chart?
A momentum chart is a visual typically used in sports (primarily football) to display which team is controlling the game by either providing the most attacking pressure or the most progressive actions
Tue 07 Jul 2026 | Nika-Kare Pierre-White
My First Week @ The Data School
Day 1: How did my first day go?
Like anyone would on their first day at work, I was quite nervous. But my nerves quickly disappeared as soon as I met my work coach and fellow cohort members. There were many many introductions, so you get to learn everyone pretty well and pretty fast
Tue 14 Jul 2026 | Jude Royall
Getting Player Data from the FPL API in Alteryx
Understanding the API -> downloading the data -> cleaning and reshaping
Tue 14 Jul 2026 | Janina Grauel
Building a Custom Audio Player for Tableau Public ♫
One of the best things about personal projects is that they can keep evolving. After originally creating Sonic Traces during Dashboard Week, I revisited the project to add a feature I had envisioned from the start: the ability to hear the music behind the selected moments
Mon 13 Jul 2026 | Charles Yi
Creating an AI Wrapper Around VizQL Data Service (VDS)
MCP Servers have made it easy to connect AI agents to external tools and data sources. But easy access doesn't mean accurate results. When I wired up Tableau's MCP Server to an AI agent, the agent could query my datasource — it just couldn't do it reliably
Sun 12 Jul 2026 | Jalil Cooper
Why Understanding Data Structures is Important to the Data Cleaning Process
Keywords: Table, record, data field, measure
Before analyzing data it is imperative to clean and (potentially) reshape it so that it is easier to analyze and work with
Tue 07 Jul 2026 | Joss Lazenby
Git & GitHub: What, Why & How?
This week, nearly 1 year after I started at The Data School, I was fortunate enough to join DES7 - our seventh data engineering cohort
Fri 10 Jul 2026 | Kate Crawford
Customizing Amazon Redshift for Serverless Data Warehousing
Pre-requisites
* Data stored in an S3 bucket.
* Access to an AWS console.
* Be clear on the scope of your environment for IAM setup.
This tutorial will help you to stand-up a testing environment and use Amazon's Query Editor v2.
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Fri 10 Jul 2026 | Davy Ly
Git Staging vs. Data Staging
There are the term staging in Git and staging in the data load process, they are fundamentally different concepts that just happen to share the same word
Fri 10 Jul 2026 | Joe O'Connor
Git and GitHub: A Beginners Guide
When you start working on a project, you quickly realise that nobody writes code in isolation.
If everyone just edited the same live files, things would break constantly
Fri 10 Jul 2026 | Joe O'Connor
Moving Beyond print(): Why You Need Python Logging
When I started out learning to write Python scripts, print() is the easiest way to debug. If you want to check if a variable updated or a loop actually ran, you just print it to the console
Thu 09 Jul 2026 | Mila Kholodiy
How to prepare for the Alteryx teaching session at Data School?
Planning your first Alteryx training? Here are some practical tips and lessons learned from delivering a 1.5-hour Data School session, covering everything from preparing slides and exercises to engaging your audience and ensuring participants get plenty of hands-on practice
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