Automatically Publish Multi-Lingual Workbooks in Tableau Server
Tableau purchased Power Tools in 2019. Contact Us for more information. As more and more companies expand across the oceans, it becomes more of a necessity to embrace other languages and expand the consumer base of your data visualizations. This walkthrough will create an easy way to take a single workbook that needs to be […]
Analytics Explained: Modeling Our World
Models are amazing. Built upon the understanding we gained in type 2 analytics, models provide an amazing tool that we can pass to others. No longer is the understanding locked up in our minds, but it becomes a concrete reality we can use to further test and refine our understanding. Not only that, but models […]
Viz for Social Good: Girls+Data
According to research from Dear Tech People, based on data from 100 tech companies, while women make up 50% of the American population, they only make up about 37% of the tech sector*. Separately, a study by Microsoft reports that girls’ interest in STEM subjects—science, technology, engineering and math—peaks in early middle school but begins […]
Advance with Assist: Automating Tableau Workbook Download with TabCmd
Question: I’m only seeing export options for PDF, CSV or PNG. I’m needing a way to export a workbook to a share drive for access by our Creators. Is there an automated way to do this? I’m tired of downloading to my machine only to upload to the share drive and delete. I hope I’m […]
A Consultant’s Case for Wordsmith, Now and Later
The world of data has been exploding, and the process of capturing and analyzing data to drive business decisions is now the norm. This explosion has brought with it a rapid pace of innovation. Tableau Software is a giant in the visual-analytics space, Snowflake is on a rise in the data-warehousing business, and Amazon is […]
Digital Nomad: A Year in the Life
In the musical Rent, the song “Seasons of Love” asks us how we measure a year: in daylights, in sunsets, in cups of coffee, in inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife? Now, I’m certain with enough patience and energy, we could track all of this by doing some more rigorous quantified-self work. Unfortunately, I […]
Analytics Explained: Understanding Our World
So far in this series, we’ve laid a foundation for the analytics conversation, and we’ve discussed descriptive, or type 2, analytics. Now, we’re going to dive deeper into how we can apply this in more advanced contexts. The second type of analytics is all about building upon our descriptions of the world by looking for […]
Changes in Licensing and Site Roles When Upgrading Tableau Server
It can be a challenge to know exactly what happens in regard to Tableau Server licensing and site roles when you plan to upgrade, especially from a pre-2018.1 version. Here, I tested all potential site roles from upgrading Tableau Server 10.5 to 2018.3. Starting with a clean install of Tableau Server 10.5 with user-based licensing, […]
Creating Customized Legends in Tableau
Create a legend. Show a legend. Be a legend. Tableau developers love a succinct workaround, especially when that workaround is more flexible, more intuitive and just as robust as the out-of-the-box functionality. As a Tableau trainer, I get asked a lot of questions about legends and quick filters, mainly around limitations in their behaviour. “Can […]
Offerings from the Tableau Bar Chart Menu
Note: As I was working on this dashboard, Jeff Schaffer posted a very similar idea. Visit this page for his perspectives and variations on this theme. When you need to decide what chart type is best for your data, there are many great tools to choose from. The Financial Times Visual Vocabulary and Tableau’s “Show […]
