Some of you may have come upon this problem: You can’t see where the states or their boundaries are. Why is that you may ask? Tableau overlays what are called “Map Layers.” These layers allow you to overlay names, state boundaries, zip code boundaries and much more....
The Puzzle The client wants to see a rolling five-quarter view of Sales and Profit. Easy. She also wants to have a second pane on a dashboard that shows Sales and Profit of those five quarters rolled up and split by Department. Easy. She wants a quick filter...
What do you do when a request can’t be solved by traditional reporting tools, and adding new tables or views to your database can take weeks? Situation A new manager joins the group. While you’re presenting your workbook, she wants to see things a little differently. Instead...
A major vulnerability was recently patched in OpenSSL. Tableau Server 8.1.5 currently uses a vulnerable version OpenSSL. The patched version of OpenSSL is 1.0.1g. Here's a quick guide on how you can perform an in-place upgrade of OpenSSL to close the security hole. Please do...
Setting Up the Problem In a study called "Multidimensional Segmentation at Work," IBM asked marketing departments in various industries to rank their most difficult marketing challenges. Of the top four challenges, two were “identifying when a customer has migrated between segments” and “finding ‘real’ customers that...
Tableau is great at mapping, but sometimes labels don’t show up where you want them. Labels on marks that are too close to each other are hidden by default to prevent overlapping text. That’s a good thing. When you have several in a small area...
Why would you need to use URL parameters in Tableau Server? Below is an example of a list of order dates.Thanks to Tableau's massive amount of built in date functions we can do just about anything with them but what if we want to find...
Donut* charts offer a quick, high-level view of data dimensions that have few members, and together, contribute to a whole. Essentially, it's a pie chart with a hole. It's not glamorous, but it's quick and informative. The extra level introduced by the donut hole allows...
Continuing with the ‘Questions from Tableau Training’ series, I was asked a labeling question with regards to a time series chart. The question was: “How you can get multiple labels combined into one tooltip?” The example that we were working on was a time series chart for...
If you’re reading this post, you already know that the trend line is the gold standard when it comes to viewing data over time. However, the visual impact of a trend line plummets if the data are too thin. The images below highlight a common...
This is the second in a three part series related to the four types of pills in Tableau. As mentioned previously, the four data types are discrete dimension, continuous dimension, discrete measure, and continuous measure. The first part of this series discussed the differences between...
Take control of metadata while developing a visualization by employing these CALCULATED FIELD techniques. They make a workbook self-documenting, improve ease of navigation and enable searching of calculated fields. These methods will provide structure during development as well as documentation for future desktop publishers: Apply Metadata...
However strange it may seem at the surface, converting from a higher-education music instructor to a data geek was fairly seamless. Consider this: For as many years as I was teaching, I was gathering data. Tons of data. This included student attendance, grades, rubrics, advisement,...
Thanks to another new and improved feature in the Tableau 8.1 release, we no longer have to spend time writing out long tedious calculations to reformat date fields! If you haven’t met the new DATEPARSE function, then let me introduce you. First, let me point out...
In the spirit of the season and inspired by Tiffany’s recent blog post (Design Efficiently in Tableau) listed below are three underutilized features of the Tableau 8.x families that will save you some time during design and analysis. Clipboard data source Tableau Status Bar, worksheet summary...
The Problem Many times, it is necessary to display content in Tableau in a verbose manner. For example: displaying comments from a survey or showing lengthy project descriptions or calls to action in an executive dashboard. Connecting Tableau to a database with long string fields or textarea...
Are you as efficient as you could be in Tableau when in comes to finding functionality? Most of Tableau's functionality is designed for access with Drop-Down Menus, Right Click Menus and Toolbar Buttons, but the software also has over 250 keyboard shortcuts. Coming in from the...
One of the best new features of Tableau 8.1 is SAML integration. SAML is an open source web-based authentication standard that uses XML to authenticate users. In Tableau, SAML can be used as an alternative to trusted tickets, so you will still need to create the...
One of the much anticipated features of Tableau 8.1 is integration with R. Following is a compilation of notes and observations about this integration for those of you beginning to use this new feature. This was done using 8.1 Desktop and R installed on the...
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