Posts tagged with “Wrangling” (All posts)

Data Preparation with Tableau : Transform Data Format with Data Interpreter

20 May 2020

This is the 1st of a series of blog posts on data preparation in Tableau. In this blog post, I will introduce the Data Interpreter, a useful tool that can…

Tableau Generated Excel

Scraping ENROLL with Beautiful Soup and Pandas

29 October 2019

For my first project with the Datasquad, I worked on extracting course information to construct up-to-date lists of Writing Rich and Quantitative Reasoning Courses. Initially, we thought this task would…

Modernizing Mail Merge with Google Forms

5 October 2017

Problem Every term at Carleton, the registrar office has to send every teaching professor an email asking them if they want their class to use self-scheduled exams that term. Until…

New Workflow

How-To: Use PDFs to Easily Collect Information from Forms

22 April 2017

Here’s a neat little tutorial to get you started with automatic data extraction from PDF forms! Step 1: Open your PDF in Adobe Acrobat (NOT Adobe Acrobat Reader. This system…