PYD16 – Dan Murray – Evangelist and Author
We've got Tableau Conference coming up, so we're celebrating with a rerun of our original show. Dan Murray is a Tableau evangelist and author of "Tableau Your Data!"...
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Alteryx Batch Macros – Email Customized Reports to a List of Users
Have you ever had the pleasure of emailing customized sales reports to 25 regional managers? How about 100 customers? It probably took a nice chunk of your day clicking the same buttons in Outlook and verifying you’ve attached Joe’s sales report to Joe’s email address....
Questions from Tableau Training: How Can I Use My Current Report to Create a Viz?
Often times during training, students approach me with a pretty understandable issue. "I already build this report. How can I use my current output to build a visualization in Tableau?" My initial response is: “Let’s see if we can access the original data. Using the transactional database will...
Off-Label Uses for Measure Names and Measure Values in Tableau
Sometimes, I feel like I’m cheating the system when I find a neat way to use something that Tableau has to offer. Other times, I feel like a genius for doing an end run around them. Is that bad? Well, either way, I’m here to...
Investment Planning in Tableau: Part 1 – CAGR
Every decade, I spend a few weeks planning the next 10 years. This thinking normally encompasses career and investment goals. This time, I decided to expand my time horizon. I’m 57 years old, so I wanted to start thinking about what my personal financial situation looks...
Open Data Viz: San Francisco Restaurant Scores
The City of San Francisco's Health Department is always busy making sure our local restaurants are meeting food safety standards. Thanks to SF Open Data, scores and violations for every restaurant are available to anyone. Naturally, I wanted to take this data and give it life...
I Gantt Believe It’s Not a Reference Line!
One of my favorite viz types in the history of the whole wide world of Tableau is the bullet chart. I’m not sure I’ve ever produced a workbook that didn’t make use of this awesome “progress to goal” option because it’s simple, easy-to-understand and visually...
Adding Images to Projects on Tableau Server
Here's a feature that's been unofficially around for a while on Tableau Server, but is now supported on Tableau Server 10. We've all got Tableau Servers that look like this. Lots of projects which we have access to, and all pretty boring looking. Wouldn't you...
PYD15 – Josh Tapley – Data + Dashboard Guru
Josh Tapley, from data-ink.com, joins Zen Master Robert Rouse to talk about his background in data, Makeover Monday, finding and hiring the right candidates, and the importance of the Tableau community....
5 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Tableau Consultant
Remember Jeff Foxworthy? He did the whole “you might be a redneck” shtick. As a business using Tableau or working with data on any level, there are times when you might need a Tableau consultant. If you’re looking to grow your analytics culture into a full...
2016 Tableau Fantasy Football Draft Kit
Jump to the viz! August in America brings record temperatures and signals an end of six painful months without American Football. Sports news websites begin to surge in traffic; even ESPN, despite their broad coverage of global sports, gains significant ground in its Alexa rankings once...
Open Data Viz: New York Complains
With nearly three years under my belt as a resident of New York, I’m still a relatively fresh newcomer to the city. And while I love this city and could talk your ear off about the many reasons why, I’ll admit that there are plenty...
PYD14 – Tableau 10
InterWorks consultants Ben Bausili, James Wright and Mat Hughes preview Tableau 10, which was released today. They talk about their favorite new features in both Desktop and Server editions and where they believe Tableau is headed in the future....
Tableau 10 – Community Features While Supporting The Enterprise
Tableau 10 is coming. The U.S. roadshow is already having quite some buzz. The European Roadshow is about to kick-off. What is new in Tableau 10? The list of new features is long. The community excited ...
A Quick Guide to Annotations in Tableau
Do you ever want to: Add text directly to your chart that is not a label, header or title? Label only specific points, ensure mark labels do not overlap or have different mark labels provide different information? Guide your user on how to interpret your visualization with commentary,...
5 Ways to Prepare for Your Tableau Consultant
InterWorks is the most awarded and experienced Tableau consultant in North America. We’ve won the Tableau Partner of the Year for three consecutive years and become Tableau’s first Training Partner of the Year back in January. Our business intelligence consultants are working with the largest...
Open Data Viz: The Chicago Divvy Bike Station Tracker
.mw { max-width: 90%; } Divvy Bikes, Chicago’s fantastic and vast bike sharing program, gives both local commuters and tourists alike an alternative option to Public Transit or taking a cab. My goal for this dashboard was to create a comprehensive guide to get to know your neighborhood Divvy....
Assigning Shapes to Non-Present Values in Tableau
When building our dashboards, one of the best ways for us to visualize positive and negative values is through the use of shapes and colors. But what if our data doesn't have both positive and negative values? And what if we’d also like to ensure...
Questions from Tableau Training: Can I Move Mark Labels?
article.post img { max-width: 760px; } Sometimes Tableau puts mark labels exactly where we want ‘em… But sometimes the default positioning of mark labels leaves class participants asking: “Can I pick where my mark labels go?” The answer is yes! You have two options for adjusting positioning for your mark...
Easily Connect to Government Data with the Socrata Web Data Connector for Tableau
Do you want an easy way to compare NASA’s meteorite tracking data with your own UFO sighting adventures? Maybe you would like to combine food service inspection violations for restaurants in your area with your credit card statements, instead. The good news is that it’s...