Devs on Stage is probably my favorite keynote every Tableau Conference. With the move to virtual, it was reimagined to be Devs at Desks. We were invited into these developer and product manager homes to see what they have been working on for the future...
I’ve been going to Tableau Conferences ever since the first one at the Edgewater Hotel in Seattle in 2008. There were around 200 total attendees, including all of the Tableau employees, at that time. I wrote extensively about my time at each successive conference in...
Lack of data quality and lack of quality content can be major barriers to user adoption in an organisation. In this blog, we will outline some of the major pitfalls and how these can be overcome. Quality Control The challenge: we have data coming from multiple different...
Following on from our webinar “The Modern BI Stack in Operation” we’ll take a deeper dive into the “how” Matillion, Snowflake,and Tableau come together to unlock insights and provide trusted information. Why should I watch? – Escape the restraints of legacy technology and embrace the cloud. – Deliver...
Look, we don’t need to recount all the ways that 2020 has been a challenging year – we all know the score – but one noticeable difference for the business community is that conferences have either been cancelled outright or gone completely digital. If you’re...
We're in the home stretch of 2020, but there's still plenty of time to make the most of your data and tech. Are you looking for an end-of-year kick to carry you into a supercharged 2021? Maybe you're poised for the rollout of exciting, new...
Users tend to have trouble in two key areas: Tableau Server/Online navigation Using the actual workbooks to get results Finding the Answers Navigating Tableau Server/Online may appear daunting at first. It’s different than what you had before. Most of the time, users do not truly recall how...
This month’s virtual Lunch & Learn covered five tips for dashboard visual design. Visual analytics is the art of telling the story of your data in the most effective way. We covered five essential tips to make your dashboards more engaging and, ultimately, more effective. Five Tips...
Making sense of Tableau permissions can be difficult without a solid guide and a consistent plan on how to execute them. That is because there are several places where we can control the permissions, sometimes even using settings that may not seem immediately obvious that...
Curator is turning four years old! It’s awesome to be celebrating this milestone, but some of you may have just met Curator for the first time. It all started with Portals for Tableau, a brainchild of our team in 2016, but while the name has...
Build it and they will come. Well, not always. Unfortunately, people cannot adopt a new tool if they are not even aware of it. So the first question is: how do we make everyone aware of a new tool, and for that matter, what even...
Since Salesforce purchased Tableau in August last year, the Tableau community has been waiting with bated breath for news about how the two market-leading platforms can exist and advance together. Salesforce has made it clear they want to accelerate Tableau’s mission “To help people see and...
Over the last 40 years, we’ve seen a revolution in data analytics, starting with the invention of SQL and the Relational Database by IBM in the late 1970s, the advent of the personal computer (also IBM), the spreadsheet (Lotus 123), the internet protocol, web browser,...
A common irritation with tooltip formatting in Tableau is that there is no way of changing the background colour of the tooltip. So, if you have changed the background colour of your sheet to something other than white, the tooltip will be jarring against it: Using...
Wouldn’t it be nice if having a great product was enough to get everyone to use it? And maybe even good enough to have everyone use it in a cohesive, organised manner? So nice. But, alas … you’re here reading this because you live in...
With the recent release of Tableau Desktop 2020.2 came the introduction of a brand-new data model. In versions prior to 2020.2, users would define joins and unions between physical tables in which Tableau would create a singular, flat table for analysis. Beginning with Tableau Desktop...
It is late summer 2020, and I, like many others on the West Coast, am currently surrounded by wildfires and glued to various online web maps showing the various states of the world burning down around us. Here in Portland, I have the Clackamas County...
Bringing an image into a tooltip can be a great way to show additional information in a visually interesting way without overcrowding a dashboard. It could be used to bring in a picture of a product, branded logos or icons to help your viewer link...
If you’ve been using Tableau for a while, you have probably used parameters and case statements to swap metrics or dimensions. (If this technique is unfamiliar to you, you can read about the basics here.) With the release of parameter actions in version 2019.2, Tableau...
In previous posts, we’ve looked at creating conditional fields for tooltips and using parameters to add user control to tooltips. Here, we’ll combine these to have a tooltip that users can turn on and off: To make sure that the tooltip does not show at all...
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