PYD04 – Michael Treadwell – InterWorks Analytics Consultant
Michael Treadwell, an InterWorks analytics consultant and former train engineer, talks about Alteryx, Python, R and life on the open railroad tracks....
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Questions from Tableau Training: Matching Mark Color
We get lots of questions conducting Tableau trainings across the country. Many of them unveil new functionality that Tableau releases that we as trainers come across first when teaching new Tableau users. The below question has many answers, but I wanted to highlight something from Tableau...
Tableau Deep Dive: LOD – LOD Calculations vs. Table Calculations
At first glance, it could appear as if there is redundancy between level of detail calculations and table calculations. In fact, you might wonder if you could use table calculations to accomplish much of the functionality for LODs. Let’s consider a simple use case for...
10 Questions for Tableau Zen Master Jonathan Trajkovic
I met Jonathan at the Tableau Conference in Las Vegas last year. He has a background that includes science and business. He’s an engaging and talented fellow. The Questions Q: When and how did you start using Tableau? Trajkovic: I started using Tableau four years ago when I was a...
Tableau Deep Dive: LOD – The Fixed Calculation
In Part 4 of our Tableau Deep Dive on level of detail, we’re going to examine the last of the three LOD calculation types – Fixed. Remember: This series is building upon each article, and I highly recommend that you start with Part 1 and go...
Tableau Training Tips: Date Parts vs. Date Values
Date Fields are one of the trickiest concepts for Tableau beginners. In this Tableau Training Tips video, I explain what they are as well as how/when to use continuous and discrete fields. Feel free to follow along in Tableau on your desktop to master this concept in...
Preloading Dashboards with the Tableau JavaScript API
Even with the best planning, we occasionally end up with less than speedy dashboards. Tableau is great at crunching large amounts of data – but when you are looking at many different slices of millions of records, anything would be slow. There are many ways to improve the...
Tableau Deep Dive: LOD – Die FIXED-Funktion
Fixed LOD Berechnung Die INCLUDE- wie auch die EXCLUDE-Berechnungen verhalten sich relativ zur Visualisierung, in der sie genutzt werden. Wenn Du mit INCLUDE eine Dimension einschließt, die bereits in der Ansicht vorhanden ist, wird die Berechnung keinen extra Effekt haben. Genauso wird EXCLUDE keinen Effekt haben, wenn...
Tableau Deep Dive: LOD – The Exclude Calculation
This is the third article in our Tableau Deep Dive on level of detail. Part 1 reviewed the idea of detail. Part 2 introduced level of detail calculations and examined the Include LOD calculation. Let’s now jump into Exclude. A Use Case For our examples in this article, we’ll...
Date Comparisons in Tableau Made Easy
One of the common problems that clients are seeking to solve is a way to easily compare values from two different periods against each other. They want the ability to compare the same period between two years, a period against an immediately preceding period and...
Tableau Deep Dive: LOD – The Include Calculation
In the previous article of this Deep Dive on LODs, we talked about Detail in general for Tableau Desktop. In Part 2, we’ll explore the Include level of detail calculation. Start With the Data Before I go into Tableau Desktop, I always think it’s foundationally important to...
Storm Chasing in Tableau: How to Create a Weather Map
I’ve been a storm chaser since I was eight years old. My grandfather volunteered for the Perkins Civil Defense, and part of his duty was to sit on a hilltop anytime severe weather came into the area. He let me tag along, and I’ve been...
Tableau Deep Dive: LOD – Introduction to Detail
Level of detail (LOD) is a feature that was introduced in Tableau Desktop v9. While it offers a great amount of flexibility and control over how you use the data in your visualization, it can be a bit tricky to fully understand. We teach level of...
Don’t Get Ticketed in NYC: A Parking Violations Data Viz
According to ParkWhiz, the rates for hourly parking in New York City can range from $5 all the way up to $250. Adding to that the potential for getting ticketed while parked makes NYC one of the hardest places for drivers to find parking. To explore...
Tableau Driver’s Ed: The Drive Team
We’ve covered several aspects in implementing the Tableau Drive methodology into your organization and shepherding in an enterprise-level deployment. It’s now time to outline the necessary roles within the Drive team. So, what is a Drive team? A Drive team includes organizational members that are responsible for...
What Bernie Sanders Needs to Win the Democratic Nomination
After Hillary Clinton's strong performance on Tuesday, she now has an advantage of over 300 pledged delegates compared to Bernie Sanders. This total is based solely on votes and doesn't include her much larger advantage when super delegates are considered. So, where does this leave us? Just...
Could a Gasoline Tax Solve Oklahoma’s Education Funding Woes?
If you’ve watched the news lately, you’ve seen that Oklahoma (along with many other states) is in a budget crisis. In Oklahoma, you hear about many programs that are most likely going to have cuts made to funding. Education is one cut being discussed, but...
PYD03 – Robert Rouse – Tableau Zen Master and InterWorks Analytics Consultant
Tableau Zen Master Robert Rouse joins Tim Costello to talk about our perceptions and the way we view data. Tables in the East? Before you fire that manager, maybe take a second look....
Why You Should Take Tableau Fundamentals
This article is about why you should take the Tableau Fundamentals course. Yes, you. I know that you’re a self-taught guru that’s been working in the tool every day for nine months. You’re the local data analytics guru in your organization. Who needs the Tableau...
Inline Notations in Tableau
Tableau Dashboards are great for a lot of things; however, one need I hear often is the ability to add notations to dashboards. You can obviously add notations inside Tableau Desktop, but in an Enterprise level dashboard, there are many issues with this approach. Any user annotating...