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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.
Fri 29 May 2026 | Kaori Ikarashi
How to Create Standard Deviation on Tableau
I recently published a blog post explaining what standard deviation is and how it can be applied in business scenarios. You can access that article: Why Standard Deviation Matters in Business
Fri 29 May 2026 | Helena Reichenvater
DSNY12's First Mock Client Presentation
This Thursday, DSNY12 completed our first full mock client presentation!
The past few Fridays, we’ve been assigned a mock stakeholder and dataset, which we used to complete various consulting exercises. This included written proposals, dashboard sketches, and data cleaning
Fri 29 May 2026 | Tomo Mensendiek
Read this before using OData with Tableau
What is OData?
OData (Open Data Protocol) is a standard for sharing and accessing structured data over the web using REST APIs. Structured data can be consumed through an API endpoint called an OData feed, which allows applications to query and retrieve data using a URL
Fri 29 May 2026 | Martin Regan
Dashboard Week Day 4: Goodreads Infographic Dashboard
For the last day of Dashboard Week, we were tasked with creating an infographic dashboard using Goodreads data. We needed to use Tableau Prep to clean and prepare the data, then build the dashboard in Tableau Desktop. If you are interested in using the data yourself, you can find it here
Thu 28 May 2026 | Ellie Kershenbaum
Dashboard Week: UK Crimes API
Brief
Today we had to use APIs, specifically the data.police APIs, in Alteryx to build a comprehensive spatial overview of UK crime in Tableau. We had to construct spatial boundaries by using Alteryx to transform raw coordinates into Polygon shapefiles for every police force neighbourhood
Fri 29 May 2026 | Oscar Kriebel
Dashboard Week - Day 4: Goodreads
And onto the final day of training at the DS! Today's dataset is on Goodreads, which is a book website that allows users to find, track, and rate books. I've been getting back into reading over the past couple years, especially with the time I have on the train to work each day
Wed 27 May 2026 | Harvey Lloyd-Smith
Spatial Functions in Alteryx
Alteryx offers a range of different spatial analytics functions to perform more advanced spatial calculations
Thu 28 May 2026 | Carla Villafana
What Makes Data Stand Out: The Use of Pre-Attentive Attributes
In 3 seconds, would you be able to tell me how many times the number 6.53 appears in the following table?
It would probably be a difficult task
Thu 21 May 2026 | Serena Purslow
DS56 Dashboard Week Day 4: Goodreads Infographic
For Dashboard Week Day 4, DS56 will be using Tableau to create an infographic exploring the literary world of Goodreads.
Thu 28 May 2026 | Martin Regan
Dashboard Week Day 3: Building a Spatial Crime Dashboard with APIs, Alteryx and Tableau
For Day 3 of Dashboard Week, DS56 was tasked with building a spatial dashboard using the UK Police API. The challenge focused on combining APIs, spatial data processing in Alteryx, and interactive mapping in Tableau to create a dashboard that would allow the user to explore UK crime data
Thu 28 May 2026 | Shivam Wadhia
Dashboard Week Day 3: London Crime
Day 3 of dashboard week, and today we were told to make a Tableau dashboard using data from UK police forces. We had to connect to a series of APIs in order to obtain the data, which we did using Alteryx.
I started by planning the Alteryx flow
Thu 28 May 2026 | Oscar Kriebel
Dashboard Week - Day 3: UK Crimes
Now onto our third day of Dashboard week, we've been assigned a brief relating to using UK Crime data. The challenge with today's brief is the use of spatial data and APIs in Alteryx. We needed to use four different API calls to retrieve the data that we would use to make the dashboard
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