Before we look at data preparation using Excel and Tableau Prep, we need to ask a question. It’s always a healthy discipline to ask questions first and use technology to answer them second. Take a look at the question, look away from the screen then take...
This week’s podcast takes it back to Tableau Conference 2018. InterWorks analytics practice lead Ben Bausili interviews Katie Wagner, a lead Tableau trainer, about the week in her beloved home state of Louisiana. She unpacks her TC18 experience, including Brain Dates with data experts, some...
Question: I’ve been making updates to our Tableau visualizations, and I can’t seem to figure out how to create a mark on the latest date. I also would like to know whether that mark is more or less than the previous date. Is this possible?...
This week’s Makeover Monday project focused on how expensive it is to own a home in major cities across the United States. The original article presented the data as the number of hours of work it takes to pay the median monthly mortgage payment. You...
You’ve been tasked with installing Portals for Tableau, and your IT prefers using AWS CloudFormations. The bad news is that this is all new to you, so you’re not sure how to proceed. The good news is that InterWorks has a CloudFormation template you can...
Who has two thumbs and loves Slideshows in Portals for Tableau? You, after reading this blog post! I apologize to those reading that don’t have two thumbs—you can love Slideshows, too. This post will go through the whole process of creating a slideshow that can...
Do you ever feel like your computer should do more of the heavy lifting? You had to pay good money for it, and it eats a lot of your electricity. Why should you have to work harder than you need to instead of making that...
Image above courtesy of Fivetran Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about Snowflake, a cloud data warehouse that brings joy to the world of analytics. While I’ve spent a good amount of time outlining the benefits of the way Snowflake approaches data warehousing, I recently had...
Question: I have some de-identified data where the date is buried in different starting points within a text string. In Tableau, is there a way to find the year of participation without asking for help from my data engineers? Here’s an example of the string...
"I have sales information about all 50 states, but I only want to see a single state and how it ranks. Sounds like a table calculation, but there’s a catch. Table calculations in Tableau only compute the calculation on data that is in your view....
What a week at Tableau Conference! I had a great time catching up with some former students, and for all of us, one of the biggest highlights was the fabulous Devs on Stage keynote. For those unfamiliar, this session is where some of the Tableau...
The podcast heads back to Singapore with Jia to talk to Duane Pierce. Duane started the Singapore Tableau User Group, so you could say he knows what he's talking about. Jia goes behind the visualizations to learn about Duane, how he got started in data...
“Hey, there are some leftover sandwiches from today’s TUG in the kitchen if anyone wants some.” “Well, I was planning on being at that meeting, but I got pulled in to help with the TUG on Thursday.” “Hey, Andrea, I think it’d be a great opportunity for...
Tableau Conference is known for a lot of things, not the least of which are the fantastic sessions from Tableau customers and partners. This year featured some of our favorite sessions to date, including a delve into people insights at AbbVie as well as a...
Question: I have a long list of products in my data, but I no longer want the user to be able to select a certain few. I don’t want to exclude the data from my extract, so what other options do I have? This question could...
I don’t blog often, but when I do, I blog about something awesome. This is the case with Tableau Prep. Tableau Prep has been out for a while, but I had not yet given it a hard look until recently. The rest of this article will...
“Where we're going, we don't need roads” – Doc Brown, 1985/2015 We’ve all got hopes about the future of technology, and they can’t all be right. Flying cars haven’t arrived, but a lot of good things have happened to make our lives easier since Christopher Lloyd...
Question: My calculation for percentage isn’t returning the right values, but the data is there. I’m getting the sum of a single product, not the full sum. What do I need to do? Understanding what Tableau does with calculations and aggregations is important when building calculated...
It all started when I wanted to make a dashboard on the correlation between the brightness of the moon and crime activity. It’s one of those things everyone has heard in their life whenever crime or hospitalizations spike (or at least I have): “It must...
The wheel. The lightbulb. The internet. Dataiku. All revolutionary creations that disrupted life itself. Okay, well, maybe Dataiku won’t disrupt life itself. It will, however, continue to push the data industry in a great direction. So, what is Dataiku? It’s a company that develops collaborative data...
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