WFH? Yes, please!

by Staff | Jul 28, 2020 | Uncategorized

But I don’t have a home office…? As we all band together to face COVID-19 and stop the spread of disease within our beloved communities, a lot of us are faced with a new reality – working from home (WFH!) ‘for the foreseeable future’....

Quarantine Friday’s are Made for Quizzes

by Staff | Jul 28, 2020 | Extra S, extra silly

Want to know your data spirit animal? Of course, you do! Our 0% science-based quiz is here just for you. Curated by two Data-Loving Dodo Birds. CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE DATA SPIRIT-ANIMAL QUIZ!! Share with us which animal you are on insta or email us at...

Get Your [Data] Ducks in a Row ?

by Staff | Jul 28, 2020 | Best Practices, Data hack, Excel

Hello DBD crew! We are thrilled to release our v first data hack. Yes, yes… data hack sounds like typical blogger mumbo jumbo. BUT in the spirit of what Dumb Blonde Data is all about, these will be APPLICABLE tips either covering a data best practice or a how-to for a...

Double the Fun

by Staff | Jul 28, 2020 | Data hack, Excel

This week’s data hack: Weird Problem. You have data. It’s in a spreadsheet. It’s FINE! Then for whatever reason, your boss… co-worker… bride-to-be (with extra opinions to spare)… disagrees. The spreadsheet is as we like to say “single spaced” and needs to be...

Pretty, Pretty Dashboards ?

by Staff | Jul 28, 2020 | Data hack, Data Studio, Digital Marketing

Today our data hack is all about using data to your advantage in digital marketing. If you have never used Google Data Studio, you are MISSING out. It’s a free data visualization tool that pulls data sources directly, so you can make better data-driven decisions. Can...

Ladies, Drop It Down

by Staff | Jul 28, 2020 | Data hack, Excel, Uncategorized

? and no, not in the dance floor way Have you ever had a form with blanks to fill out… and you send it to someone and their answer for Favorite Color is “Pink.. no, blue – but blue with glitter! Actually, I don’t know, I don’t have a favorite!”...

It’s Like Hinge, but for Data ?

by Staff | Jul 28, 2020 | Advanced, Data hack, Data Studio

Parse the Data and Find Your Match Introducing a little more advanced data hack this week! Taking Data Studio usefulness to the next level. TBH – matching in this sense is way more exciting than any Hinge match in my life. So say you are pulling in data directly...

How to bring together SQL and OOTD’s ?

by Staff | Jul 28, 2020 | Data hack, SQL

Querying for that Perfect Outfit #sorrynotsorry. Extra Clueless obsessed this week Hello DBD Crew, Our hack today covers the basics to understanding relational databases and SQL. SO many job functions these days have to be able to at least pull simple data queries OR...

The Sequel to SQL

by Staff | Jul 28, 2020 | Data hack, SQL

Happy Friday! Who else is ready to be DONE with this work week? ✋? Before totally checking out to binge watch our ‘bottom of the list’ shows (i.e. Bachelor – Listen to Your Heart), we’ll cover the basics to writing a SQL query.  Reviewing...

Is there, like, a shortcut for that?

by Staff | Jul 28, 2020 | Data hack, Excel

Here’s our hack to getting that much closer to freeing the mouse in Excel ? We all have our go-to little mouse clicks in Excel. For some of us it might be clicking to apply a specific border style and for others it could be constantly turning...