One of my biggest fears when going on a long bike ride is running out of fuel and bonking (a.k.a hitting a wall). It’s a horrible feeling. Your legs feel like jelly, and it seems as if one more rotation of the pedals is impossible....
Every day, we are flooded with data visualizations. Whether it’s a bar chart in a newspaper, an infographic you see online or a pie chart you see in a quarterly earnings report, people are turning numbers into pictures all around us. For those of us...
Speed counts, people! Today’s report consumers expect their dashboards to run as fast as a web page. Now that high speed internet is the standard in business, that’s a lot to compete with. This is why it is essential to optimize each and every dashboard...
Every once in a while, new technologies come along that alter your thinking. In 1982, the spreadsheet radically changed how everyone created budgets. In 2007, Tableau Software changed the way I looked at data. For the first time, the hardware had enough power to analyze large...
In some of my recent posts, I’ve talked (and visualized) about some of the reasons why I love the Tableau community. My first post about the topic was a “thank you” to the Tableau community in general while my second post analyzed community member stats. Continuing...
I met Mike through Twitter some time in 2009. Mike was active in the Tableau community, connecting people from all over the world and answering questions on the Tableau Forums. I did a gig in Ohio in the spring and decided to detour to Cincinnati...
Quick! Minimize those quick filters! The Tableau Performance Checklist is a guide to assist you in creating the most efficient and fastest dashboards and visualizations possible. The list is drawn from the collective experience of our award-winning Tableau professional services team. We’ve divided the checklist into...
I met Behfar for the first time around 2005. At the time, I was the CFO/CIO for a mid-sized global manufacturing and distribution business. We has just finished divesting our parent company, and most of my team and I had to find technology partners that...
When I build Tableau workbooks, I like to create quick table calculations (such as percent of total) and save those as a calculated field in the Data pane. That way, I don’t have to create that table calculation again if I want to use it...
Next, we'll explore the sixth point under the Data section of the Tableau Performance Checklist: “Use extracts wherever possible to accelerate performance. Hide unused and confidential fields. Roll up data granularity by pre-aggregating or filtering. Break hierarchies to only visible dimensions” There are many reasons to utilize extracts...
I met Gregory Lewandowski (aka @lewandog) at the second Tableau Customer Conference. He was wearing this gangster/jazzy fedora, and when I asked him were he got it his answer was that he “knew a guy.” Gregory comes from big-company technology. He works at Cisco and knows...
In today’s article, we’ll examine User Functions that you can use as part of the Create Calculated Field tool. To access this window, right-click on either the Measure or Dimension window and select Create Calculated Field. Then, select User from the function drop-down menu. The user...
In case you weren’t aware, we’re only a few days out from one of the most exciting analytic conferences in the biz: Alteryx Inspire 2015! Inspire spans four days packed full of analytics goodness, including keynote speeches from Alteryx leadership as well as breakout sessions...
I was recently lucky enough to present at the Berkeley Tableau User Group about how to create a viz that will keep people coming back. I’ll be writing more about this in a later post, but one of the steps I talked about was making your...
I’ve been concentrating for weeks on updating my book to include new Tableau 9.0 features. There are a couple of new features that will be featured in this video: The Data Intpreter Ad hoc calculations (with autofill) The video will also show you how to incorporate data blending...
In this article on Tableau Functions, we’ll examine Aggregate Functions. Aggregate Functions are a type of function where values of multiple rows are grouped together as the input to form a single value of more significant meaning, such as a set or list. To access these...
I’ve admired Kelly’s Tableau Public work and her blog for several years. Late last year, I was in Vancouver giving a talk. That gave me the opportunity to have dinner with Kelly along with the George Gorczynski, the Tableau Picasso. We talked about data viz for several hours over dinner and had...
In our next Tableau Essentials article on functions, we’ll examine Type Conversion Functions. This group of functions allow you to take the result of any expression and convert it to another specific data type. These are important for preparing some fields for calculation or in...
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So, you’ve finally worked out your ETL process using Alteryx and have it exporting a shiny new TDE file. Now what? Using the Run Command tool in Alteryx Designer you can automate the publishing of that TDE to Tableau Server, and here’s how you do...
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