How do we know how many teachers are required to keep the UK's schools in good working order? It's an interesting question, with obvious implications for Governmental education policy with regards to teacher compensation, incentives, training places and so on. The "official" requirements are calculated via the Government's "Teacher Supply Model", which, happily, in the … Continue reading How many teachers do we need? The official Governmental model
Month: December 2015
Showing the formula behind a Tableau quick table calculation
Tableau gives super-fast access to many common analytical operations via its "quick table calculation" feature: running total, percent difference, moving average and so on. Just rightclick the measure pill, select "Quick Table Calculation", make your choice and often that's all that's needed. But what if you want to customise them in ways beyond what a simple "edit table calculation" … Continue reading Showing the formula behind a Tableau quick table calculation
Setting up the automatic “upload to Tableau Online / Server” feature in Alteryx 10.1
Alteryx released their new version 10.1 this week - license holders/demo seekers can pop along to the download page to install it. Amongst the new features it promised was: Automatically update Tableau Server and Tableau Online with a new Tableau macro The concept is simple: process/model/advanced-analyse your data in Alteryx and then it will push up the … Continue reading Setting up the automatic “upload to Tableau Online / Server” feature in Alteryx 10.1
Dabbling with Data 