I’ve admired Kelly’s Tableau Public work and her blog for several years. Late last year, I was in Vancouver giving a talk. That gave me the opportunity to have dinner with Kelly along with the George Gorczynski, the Tableau Picasso. We talked about data viz for several hours over dinner and had...
In our next Tableau Essentials article on functions, we’ll examine Type Conversion Functions. This group of functions allow you to take the result of any expression and convert it to another specific data type. These are important for preparing some fields for calculation or in...
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So, you’ve finally worked out your ETL process using Alteryx and have it exporting a shiny new TDE file. Now what? Using the Run Command tool in Alteryx Designer you can automate the publishing of that TDE to Tableau Server, and here’s how you do...
When last we left our hero, she was complaining mightily about how when you have a calculated field in Tableau, and that field is referenced by another calculated field, things go seriously awry when you replace data sources. Luckily, there is a solution that works...
My career path was illuminated by Stephen Few. Eight years ago, I was looking for a solution to a problem. Stephen’s advice led me to Tableau. His books have been foundational in my understanding of effective communication through data visualization. Edward Tufte’s books are entertaining and informative....
So, you’ve finally worked out your ETL process using Syncsort DMExpress and have it exporting a shiny new TDE file. Now what? Using the Custom Task in DMExpress, you can automate the publishing of that TDE to Tableau Server, and here’s how you do it: Step...
Today I'm going to give you a quick run through of the updates and changes you will see in Tableau Server 9.0 from an administrator’s perspective, and what has changed since Tableau Server 8.3 Visual Differences Firstly and most obviously are the visual changes. Tableau has completely...
We are up to part four of our functions articles. In this article, we’ll cover String Functions. Check out the previous ones for Logical Functions, Number Functions and Date Functions. Those articles will also cover how to get to the Calculated Field window where you...
In February, I had the opportunity to attend the Innovation Enterprise Predictive Analytics Summit in San Diego, Calif. The conference lasted two days and featured data scientists from some very recognizable companies like Facebook, StubHub, BuzzFeed and eBay. The talks ranged from how to detect...
My first post on the Tableau Community highlighted the real people that make it work in the form of a “Thank You” viz. It told the story of the most active 872 members using their avatars to create a mosaic representing the Tableau logo. But,...
Recently, a colleague ran into an issue with the workbook that is exported from our Audit tool in our Workbook Tools product: The error is Tableau Data Engine Error: 4: PrimitiveExp::MakePrimitive: map_lower_user2_val. Findings When I investigated, I discovered that it was caused by a bug in Tableau 9.0....
Ryan Sleeper is a consultant based in Kansas City with a keen interest in professional sports, an infectiously positive attitude and a friendly nature. I first noticed Ryan because of his fine sports-related data visualizations and his winning performance in the 2013 Iron Viz competition. When I did...
A little over a week ago, a few of my colleagues and I attended the OpenVis Conference in Boston and had a blast learning about new open source visualization technologies and hearing ideas for creating on the web. The lineup was full of amazing speakers,...
Tableau purchased Power Tools in 2019. Contact Us for more information. We recently held a webinar on how InterWorks could help em'power' your Tableau Experience, using the InterWorks Power Tools for Tableau. If you wanted a recap or fancy finding out exactly what could possibly make Tableau even...
Today, we’ll continue our exploration of the functions you can use when you create a calculated field. We covered Logical Functions and Number Functions in the two previous articles on this topic. Now, we’ll cover Date Functions. To bring up the Calculated Field window, right-click anywhere...
It’s been said before, but what makes Tableau unlike any other data visualization tool out there is the community surrounding it. People don’t just use Tableau – they live it. There are so many helpful resources out there, be it blogs or social media channels,...
I met Mike via Twitter several years ago. I thought he was a deranged stalker because he retweeted just about everything I put out. Then we were engaged by his company to do some training/consulting work. After meeting Mike, I realized he was just very passionate...
This post is on how to make use of TDS files to easily share metadata about a data source with others. We will be digging into the fifth point in the data section of the Tableau Performance Checklist: “Create a published TDS file for your business...
When installing a fresh copy of Windows 2012 or 2012R2, some of the more common items on the desktop, such as My Computer, User’s Files, Network, Control Panel are missing or no longer part of the default configuration. On a Windows 7 or 8 machine,...
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