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...
How to get ahead of non-compliance Finance teams typically chase down non-compliant activity after the fact in an attempt to minimise the damage. However, with a modern analytics platform like Tableau it's quick and easy to detect potential violations in real-time by visually analysing your own...
I went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for my undergraduate degree, and it was one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve ever had. However, it’s surprising to me that I ended up in North Carolina, having grown up in New Jersey....
Sometimes you find a tool that blows you away with its capabilities and get eager to utilize it in your day-to-day work with data. Dataiku was one of those for me. It doesn’t run on Windows natively, but the process to install the virtual system...
You want your hard work to get noticed, right? When it comes to designing visualizations and dashboards, getting your work noticed and making it useful have typically come with some sort of sacrifices on both sides. In this week's show, Robert, Mike and Ben discuss just...
The question is: We receive CSV files from our data provider which we pull into Prep. We then unionize them and output a Tableau online server file. Why can’t we edit the default properties? If you are familiar with this menu, it normally looks like this: Many...
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