Last week I had the pleasure of attending Tableau's 2nd Annual European Customer Conference in Barcelona. I'm often asked by clients and partners alike about my experiences at these events. Aside from the opportunity to explore beautiful locations and enjoy face to face time with...
A fast and easy way to create Crosstabs with your data in Tableau is by using Measure Names and Measure Values. The quick walkthrough below will guide you. First: Open Tableau and connect to Superstore Sales - Excel. Second: Double Click on Measure Names in your Data Dimensions window....
When opening an Excel file, do multiple windows open instead of just the one you intended? Do you have users who are experiencing this problem? If you answered yes to these questions AND you have the Tableau Data Reshaper 4.1 or older add-in for Excel installed,...
Adding Reference lines for specific targets or target areas can be very beneficial to seeing the overall picture of the health of your organization. Adding reference lines, bands or distributions to your views helps emphasize valuable areas that may be useful in interpreting your data....
When Adding References lines, as a user, you must decide what scope you want to apply your reference line. Do you want the Scope to be across the Entire Table, to be Per Pane, or to be Per Cell. Understanding the different options and the...
A Parameter is any value passed to a program in order to customize the program for a particular purpose. A parameter could be anything: A string of text, a range of values, or an amount just to name a few. In Tableau, think about it...
Google Analytics is a great tool for keeping track of website traffic to see the effectiveness of your online marketing campaigns. However, Google's built-in tools aren't always the best for visualizing and analyzing the data that it collects. Therefore, it is best to extract that...
Let me tell you a secret about working with SQL Server. Anyone can do it. I’m not going to imply that it’s easy. You can’t do it in 24 hours and it’s certainly not for dummies … but it can be done. The cool thing...
You might come across this error when working with large datasets or extracts when using the native Aster Data connection. As of this writing all the ...
Tableau's second European conference is fast approaching (for full details click here). I cannot recommend these conferences highly enough. Tableau's organisation at these events is faultless and the speakers are inspirational. The conference is also a great opportunity to meet other fellow Tableau evangelists and see how...
When Tableau released version 6.1 last year they also released the first iteration of their iPad application. With it, users have the ability to connect to any Tableau server they have access to and not only view but interact with visualizations on Apple’s brilliant touch...
He stands at the podium and proclaims with a sense of otherworldly serenity ‘it just WORKS!’. A friendly wink, an embarrassed half grin and a subtle nod in the direction of the competition and the message is clear. You’re one of...
I find the best way to learn how to use Tableau is to find some real data you’re interested In, bring it in to Tableau and do something interesting with it. In this video series I’ll show you how I found some data and the...
I find the best way to learn how to use Tableau is to find some real data you’re interested In, bring it in to Tableau and do something interesting with it. In this video series I’ll show you how I found some data and the...
I find the best way to learn how to use Tableau is to find some real data you’re interested In, bring it in to Tableau and do something interesting with it. In this video series I’ll show you how I found some data and the...
We love playing with Tableau and seeing what new things we can do with it. These visuals all look better on a full screen so please feel free to download the workbook. ...
Histograms are yet another example of an efficient statistical tool that Tableau can create for you with ease. Created by well-known Statistician Karl Pearson, a histogram also functions as an effective approximation to a variable’s probability distribution function. A histogram is a frequency plot: it will...
I’ve been thinking a lot about life balance lately. If I love what I do for my ‘work’, why would I want to stop doing it to ‘play’? I’ve struggled with these questions for a long time. Chuck Hooper (blog:twitter) shared his thoughts on this...
Tableau comes preloaded with a great set of shapes already available for the user to choose from. Shapes are useful in scatterplots and in bulletgraphs, among other visualizations, so having a variety to choose from is necessary to create as dynamic a visualization as possible....
Whenever you save your work in Tableau, the default file extension is .twb, or Tableau Workbook. However, you have the option to save your work under a different extension, .twbx. A .twbx file is a Tableau Packaged Workbook, meaning it is the original .twb file grouped...
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