I've had many jobs over the years, including dishwasher, radio DJ, pizza delivery guy, prison guard and IT help desk, but in my mind I've had only two careers. Today I'm a database and Tableau consultant, but that isn't where I started. Following up our "Life as...
Take control of metadata while developing a visualization by employing these CALCULATED FIELD techniques. They make a workbook self-documenting, improve ease of navigation and enable searching of calculated fields. These methods will provide structure during development as well as documentation for future desktop publishers: Apply Metadata...
However strange it may seem at the surface, converting from a higher-education music instructor to a data geek was fairly seamless. Consider this: For as many years as I was teaching, I was gathering data. Tons of data. This included student attendance, grades, rubrics, advisement,...
Recently, we shared a blog post entitled, "Life as an InterWorks Consultant: Oh, the Places You Will Go." In that post, we announced that we would be doing a follow-up series outlining the varied backgrounds which InterWorks consultants come from. Here's my story. Life in Casino Operations Shortly...
I recently upgraded my version of Tableau Desktop to 8.1. While on holiday, I decided to play with the program a bit to mess with some of the new features. In lieu of any ground-breaking analysis, I decided to have fun. I submit for you a...
Before we can attempt a Marimekko, we need to understand a few of Tableau's lesser used tools. The first of these is the Polygon mark type which can be selected from the dropdown on the marks card. Since the Marimekko is actually made up of lots...
In Part 1 we learned how to use custom SQL to shape our data ready for use later on in polygons. In this part we will use parameters to allow dashboard viewers to exchange dimensions. This methodology can be applied to any chart type which is sliced...
In Part 2 we simulated a Marimekko using stacked bars but since the boundary for each element / polygon of a Marimekko in Tableau is made up from 4 Cartesian Coordinates we are going to use scales of 0 – 100 % for both X and Y...
In Part 3 we created all the calculated fields necessary for our basic Mekko. Because we have preset the DTC (Direction of Table Calculation) for each calculated field we can simply drag them on to the view to create the mekko and be confident that the values...
In Part 4 of the blog we learned how to make a basic Mekko Chart. In this part of the blog we are going to add in some totals, thankfully we can use some of our existing calculations to do this. The first is the...
Thanks to another new and improved feature in the Tableau 8.1 release, we no longer have to spend time writing out long tedious calculations to reformat date fields! If you haven’t met the new DATEPARSE function, then let me introduce you. First, let me point out...
Alteryx and Tableau are powerful tools that can revolutionize data analytics and data consumption in any organization. Alteryx is a user-friendly ETL platform with a powerful suite of tools, including spatial and predictive analytics. Tableau is the best tool for sharing data in a dynamic visualization....
I came across an interesting article today on WashingtonPost.com by Niroj Chokshi. It visualized the impending effects of the estimated 1.3 million people that will lose unemployment benefits when they expire on Saturday Dec. 28. I won't get into the politics of the issue, but...
My submission for the Tableau 3 Minute Win Viz Challenge - looking at 35 years of NFL data in only 3 minutes! The dashboard is also available on Tableau Public here....
As part of Tableau's The 3-Minute Win Challenge, I decided to build a 3 minute Tableau viz using film trilogy data. The rules of the challenge: Start from scratch. Build something useful. Do it quickly. The video must be no more than 3 minutes long. Your dashboard must start with...
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...
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