Calculated fields are a staple of almost every workbook I create. There’s always a need to add a field to the original set of dimensions or measures to either enhance a visualization or to add powerful analysis on the fly without having to re-write the...
Hierarchies in Tableau are a great way to offer a high-level summary with the option to drill down into the data. For example, in the Sample Superstore extract, you can go from feeling great about Technology sales to worrying about losing money on DFX-8500 printers...
Ask Tableau users what they love most about Tableau, and they’ll likely say it’s the ability to create stunning data visualizations quickly and easily. Tableau was designed with usability in mind, apparent in its approachable interface, yet behind that interface lies a powerful collection of...
I became aware of Paul Banoub a couple of years ago via Twitter and then his blog. Paul started doing interviews of Tableau community members a while ago. I didn’t realize that until I started digging into his website for this post. Paul is generous,...
Tableau tooltips are a fantastic way to add additional context or information to your view without taking up any precious real estate on the worksheet (super important when the worksheet is on a dashboard). As we’ll discuss in this post, you can populate the tooltip...
Here in InterWorks we are getting a little bit over-excited about Tableau 9. Especially, when this blog post came out from the Tableau mothership. Individual Query time improved by 10x Dashboard Query times improved by 9x Query Fusion improving times by 2x And Query Caching improving times by 50x Those are...
The first time I met Emily and Matt together in person was standing in a very long line at the Tableau Conference in Washington DC a few years ago. Tableau asked me to give a speech on their behalf (in Richmond) on the first day...
The beta’s been out for a month and the excitement has died down (ever so slightly) over the new Level Of Detail (LOD) functions and Regular Expressions. Let's take a look at what other functions have been made available in the new version: Number CEILING, FLOOR, HEXBINX, HEXBINY String ...
In this edition of Tableau Essentials, we’ll examine the Color button on the Marks card. Color options are a powerful way to add distinction to your visualization as well as depth to your data’s story. The most important thing to keep in mind is that you...
What are the differences between CASE and IF statements when making calculated fields in Tableau? How do different types of IF statements vary? When is it better to use one of these statements over the others? That is what I’ll address in this article. The Different...
Mike Roberts is a former InterWorks BI consultant that now works for Pluralsight. Mike enjoys running. His idea of fun is running 50 to 100 miles through the mountains. He also happens to be a talented student of technology and data visualization. In Mike’s first...
Many analyses start with a simple question: “How are we doing compared to this time last year?” The quick, easy way to answer that is to add up the numbers and compare prior year-to-date (PYTD) to the results of the current year-to-date (CYTD). However, be...
Background: The State University of New York (SUNY) is the largest comprehensive system of higher education in the United States. With 64 schools, a mix of research universities, liberal arts colleges, specialized and technical colleges, health science centers, land-grant colleges and thirty community colleges, SUNY’s reach...
We hope you’ve been enjoying our blog series on Beta 9.0. So far you’ve heard us chat about the new inline calculation editor, general interface, LOD calculations & connections. Today I’m offering something slightly different, by way of a “vlog” which will run through “Data Reshaping in...
A look at effectively preparing for the rapid aging of the American workforce utilizing calculated fields and parameters in Tableau. The Scenario It’s no secret: The American workforce is aging – rapidly. The “Silver Tsunami” is hastily approaching land. With it comes waves of increased medical expenditures,...
Firstly, for all those still on Windows Server 2003 (you know who you are), it’s time to finally upgrade as Tableau Server 9.0 won’t run on this OS. New User Interface The first thing that you will notice when connecting to the Tableau 9.0 server is the...
This post builds off of two great previous posts about Tabcmd by Kate Treadwell and Tanner Ladd. Please refer back to these posts if you have questions about setting up Tabcmd and distributing PDFs. The goal of this post is to show you how to use...
A couple of months ago I did a speech in Vancouver, BC, and had the good fortune of getting to have dinner with Kelly Martin (Tableau Zen Master) and another amazing Tableau expert: George Gorczynski. George has an outstanding Tableau blog called Tableau Picasso. The...
We’ve kicked off 2015 with answers to some of our most commonly asked questions. Another problem that appears involves a simple piece of functionality – totals. We know that Tableau can create totals for us through the Analysis menu. In Tableau 8.1, a new feature called...
In this tutorial I talk about the Tableau Level of Detail calculations {fixed}, {include} and {exclude} which are new in Tableau Version 9. We see how {fixed} can be used to turn a measure into bands and give it the full functionality of a dimension. This...
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