Helpful Resources

Download Software / Request Trial

• Tableau (2 week free trial)

• Alteryx (2 week free trial)

• OrgVue (Get in touch)

• Python (Free download)

Sites and Resources by Each Tool

Tool	Link(s)
Excel
Tableau	Website Forum - the best place to go to find answers to your Tableau questions Viz-of-the-day - for a variety interesting and good looking dashboards published daily by advanced Tableau users Blogs - a variety of content from Concentra's expert Tableau consultants, analysts and trainers
Alteryx	Website Community - Alteryx's discussion and KnowledgeBase portal Macros - online gallery of downloadable custom macros and tool palettes Chaos Reigns Within - a blog and list of custom macro packages written by Alteryx Guru Adam Riley
OrgVue	Website Portal Cookbook - a public guide to OrgVue expressions and their use cases Blog - industry commentary, OD methodology and technical advice from the OrgVue team
tSQL	Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) - advanced list of tSQL functions
Python	Website Think Python - an introduction to Python & thinking like a computer scientist Python for Data Analysis - a more focused look at using Python for data manipulation

Writing Code

• repl.it – an online computer programming environment for writing and testing code

• W3Schools Tryit Editor - for testing SQL on a ready-made data schema

• Codecademy – a free platform for learning code interactively, especially useful for JavaScript and Python

• Summary of Regular Expressions (Regex) – a powerful and commonly used form of syntax for searching for patterns of characters e.g. in search engines.

• regexr.com – easily test regular expressions online

• Quick HTML Guide – list of commonly used HTML tags for formatting (can be used within markdown or OrgVue surveys)

Data Visualisation

• Perceptual edge – some Do and Don’t rules of thumb from visualisation expert Stephen Few

• Information is Beautiful – to contrast that, some more “out there” visualisations to get you inspired