PYD01 – Tableau Your Data! with Dan Murray
Dan Murray, author of Tableau Your Data!, joins fellow consultant Tim Costello to talk about the second edition of TYD!, life on the road and what's going on in the industry....
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The Tableau Performance Checklist: Dashboard Layout – Fix Dashboard Size
In our last guideline, we’ll revisit another tip on how your dashboard’s layout can impact performance: "Fix dashboard size relative to end-user consumption. Automatic sizing is less efficient than specifying dashboard size." It’s not all about size … though I’ve heard it’s mightily important. Automatic Sizing There is a...
Visualizing the Golf Drive in Tableau
The 2016 golf season is starting to pick up speed. In just a couple of months, the first major of the year, The Masters, kicks off at Augusta and with it the race for the FedEx Cup. Being a golf nut, I’ve always wanted to create a visualization...
Questions from Tableau Training: The Small Grey Bar Within a Quick Filter
A common question that comes up trainings is: ”What does the small grey bar within the quick filter box represent?” Using quick filters is one of the easiest ways to provide end users with the ability to control what they want to see. Although they are quick, they...
The Tableau Performance Checklist: Dashboard Layout – Limit Number of Worksheets
We are onto our last category of the Tableau Performance Checklist, Dashboard Layout. For our next guideline: "Limit the number of worksheets on a dashboard. If you have more than four visualizations on a dashboard, strongly reconsider." Let’s begin! Dashboarding or Dash-boring The allure of putting as much information on...
10 Questions for Chicago TUG Founder Rina Bongsu-Petersen
I discovered Rina in 2009 because she was the winner of Tableau’s first visualization contest for a dashboard called "Fit and Fat in America." I called her in to do an interview for a blog post. We spoke for over an hour, but our Tableau/BI consulting business hit an inflection point...
When Average Isn’t Good Enough: Using Tableau to Visualize Distributions
Averages are great. They take up very little space to report, everybody wants them and we all understand exactly what an average is … or do we? An average as we typically think of it is what we call the mean in statistics. To find...
Predicting March Madness in Tableau
I know, I know. The idea of actually predicting March Madness with any accuracy is an exercise in futility, although that may partially explain why the tournament so fully captures the attention of so both the casual enthusiast and the diehard fan of the game...
Questions from Tableau Training: How Do ZIP Codes Work in Tableau?
A common question that comes up in trainings is: “How do ZIP codes work in Tableau? Do I need to add in leading zeros, or can I leave them out?” As geographic fields become increasingly available in the field of analytics, aggregating customer information to ZIP code level...
Questions from Tableau Training: Setting Weekday Start
It’s been a while since I wrote in this series, but I was recently conducting a training and was asked a question that I have never been asked. I’m sure it comes up regularly, but I never came across it. I was asked: “Tableau makes the week...
The Tableau Performance Checklist: Local Computations – Table Calculations
Here’s the second item under Local Computations: "Table calculations are powerful, but they can be slow. They are dependent on the local computation engine and can require substantial memory." Let’s get started. Table Calculations Table calculations are computations that use the values in the entire table and can restructure...
The ‘Corruption Perceptions Index 2015’ Visualized in Tableau
Transparency International publishes an annual index of government corruption perceptions for 168 countries. The index attempts to gauge how the population within a country feels about it’s government. Take a look at the results visualized in Tableau below: ...
Thinking About Data: Part Three – Data Visualization
In Part 1 and 2 of this series, we explored data science and big data. In this post, I’ll discuss how data visualization helps people makes sense of what data scientists are creating and storing. Whether the goal of the visualization is to expose a story...
Tableau Viz Showcase by Industry: Retail
As leaders in data visualization with Tableau, we are contacted every day by potential clients seeking information about how we can help them leverage Tableau to make better decisions with data. Because Tableau is such an amazing tool and not industry specific, we get to work with a...
The Tableau Performance Checklist: Local Computations – Server Performance
Here’s the first guideline from the Local Computations category: "Even if a workbook is published to Tableau Server, local computations still impact performance. Leverage the power of Tableau Server whenever possible by limiting local computations such as groups, hierarchies, reference lines, table calculations and blending." Let’s get...
Tableau and Mint Help You Answer the Question: ‘Where Did All My Money Go?’
With the new year comes resolutions to do better in 2016. Many have made (and already broken) the goal to exercise more. Some have resolved to eat healthier. Others have made the resolution to do better with their personal finances. Improving your personal financial situation is...
The Road to the College Football National Championship
The College Football Playoffs have come and gone. With Alabama’s hard-fought win, I reminisced how their season progressed as well as seasons past. After scouring various sites and blogs, piecing together each champion’s story as well as their challenger’s, I came up with an interactive visual...
Easy Year-Over-Year Comparisons in Tableau
In most real world data sets, we want to compare “year over year” values. How were we doing last year? How does that compare to this year? Monitoring these comparisons can provide valuable insights to your business; however, the calculation is cumbersome and slow to generate in...
Raise Your Glass: Visualizing the World’s Best Beers
InterWorks is home to a motley crew of incredible people, each of whom brings a breadth of experiences, hobbies, virtues … and even a few vices … to the team. There are a few connoisseurs of fine wine who spearhead new initiatives, and I’ve burned...
Forbes’ Largest Privately-Owned Companies in the US
I’ll be in Minneapolis on Jan. 20 (Thursday afternoon) to speak to the Tableau user group there about the newly-released 2nd edition of Tableau Your Data!, using Tableau for predictive analytics and discovery, and the field of data science in general. It's the first of many TUGs i'll be attending...
