In the spirit of the season and inspired by Tiffany’s recent blog post (Design Efficiently in Tableau) listed below are three underutilized features of the Tableau 8.x families that will save you some time during design and analysis. Clipboard data source Tableau Status Bar, worksheet summary...
The Problem Many times, it is necessary to display content in Tableau in a verbose manner. For example: displaying comments from a survey or showing lengthy project descriptions or calls to action in an executive dashboard. Connecting Tableau to a database with long string fields or textarea...
In this post, drawing some circular inspiration from the front cover of David McCandless’ Information Is Beautiful, I’m going to take a simple bar chart and wrap it around a circle, for no other reason than to see if it can be done in Tableau. You...
Are you as efficient as you could be in Tableau when in comes to finding functionality? Most of Tableau's functionality is designed for access with Drop-Down Menus, Right Click Menus and Toolbar Buttons, but the software also has over 250 keyboard shortcuts. Coming in from the...
One of the best new features of Tableau 8.1 is SAML integration. SAML is an open source web-based authentication standard that uses XML to authenticate users. In Tableau, SAML can be used as an alternative to trusted tickets, so you will still need to create the...
One of the much anticipated features of Tableau 8.1 is integration with R. Following is a compilation of notes and observations about this integration for those of you beginning to use this new feature. This was done using 8.1 Desktop and R installed on the...
This is the first in a three part series related to the four types of pills in Tableau. The four pill types are discrete dimension, continuous dimension, discrete measure, and continuous measure. Grasping these concepts is important to understanding Tableau and relational databases in general....
As an InterWorks Consultant, I get the privilege of traveling around the country at times to teach Tableau. In these classes are a variety of different people from different backgrounds and organizations. From CTOs and CIOs, to business analysts and just data geeks who desire...
You may be thinking, global filtering? Don’t we have that ability already? Why do I need to write code to do that? In Tableau Desktop, global filtering is typically defined as setting a quick filter to control all worksheets on a dashboard that use a...
A few months ago, I received a call from a close friend who was very elated and very frustrated. She was elated because after many weeks of difficult conversations with her company’s IT department, she had finally received access to the data warehouse. At the...
Occasionally, you will find the need to compare filtered data against the total data source. As Tableau's filters remove the data from the data partition, this can sometimes be a tricky problem. You might be tempted to try the "Total" function in a formula like the...
USA Today had an article on three American economists who were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for 2013. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded 45 times to 74 laureates between 1969 and 2013. To help...
Neutrality has always been a key concern in data analysis. As analysts, it is critical that we not introduce our own bias into the interpretation of data. Anyone who has had a statistics class is familiar with the importance of random samples and neutral questions....
With Tableau 8, users gained the ability to color marks by multiple dimensions on a single axis with some automatic combined field magic. What happens though, when you want color by a dimension and a measure? In the past, I have separated out members of...
If I were to ask you to name the three most significant factors that predict the murder rate within a geographic area, then I would expect you would name some measure of median income. To test this hypothesis, we could do a simple linear regression...
Wow. Now THAT was an amazing conference. You got away from work for a couple days, met a lot of cool people, attended a lot of great sessions, learned a ton … now what? The day after kinda sucks. You’re probably still riding the wave from...
Attendees at the 2013 Tableau Customer Conference in National Harbor were delivered an electrifying experience in the keynote address Monday morning. After an inspiring introduction from Tableau CEO, Christian Chabot, the development team, led by Chris Stolte, unwrapped a collection of improved workflow and analytics...
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STILLWATER, Okla. – InterWorks, Tableau Software’s largest global services provider, announced plans to present alongside Facebook during their customer session at the 2013 Tableau Customer Conference. The conference held Sept. 8 – 12 in Washington D.C. allows Tableau customers from across the world to share...
"Pack your bags – your trip to Washington, D.C. starts on Saturday … " Very few emails make me happier than the one that reminds me to pack my bags for the annual Tableau Customer Conference (TCC)! But what to pack? One thing you learn as...
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