Portals for Tableau 101: AWS CloudFormation
You’ve been tasked with installing Portals for Tableau, and your IT prefers using AWS CloudFormations. The bad news is that this is all new to you, so you’re not sure how to proceed. The good news is that InterWorks has a CloudFormation template you can use. Here are steps you can take to set up […]
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Slideshows
Who has two thumbs and loves Slideshows in Portals for Tableau? You, after reading this blog post! I apologize to those reading that don’t have two thumbs—you can love Slideshows, too. This post will go through the whole process of creating a slideshow that can be displayed on monitors in your conference room or used […]
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Data Manager Calculated Fields
Do you ever feel like your computer should do more of the heavy lifting? You had to pay good money for it, and it eats a lot of your electricity. Why should you have to work harder than you need to instead of making that freeloading box of wires and lights make your life easier? […]
Why Data in One Place Matters: Data Warehousing with Fivetran
Image above courtesy of Fivetran Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about Snowflake, a cloud data warehouse that brings joy to the world of analytics. While I’ve spent a good amount of time outlining the benefits of the way Snowflake approaches data warehousing, I recently had the idea of discussing why businesses benefit from using […]
How I Went from High School English Teacher to Content Coordinator
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.” Albus Dumbledore via J.K. Rowling I have been a lover of language and wielder of words (and advocate of alliteration … oof) my entire life. When I went to college, I decided to double major […]
Advance with Assist: Extracting Year from De-identified Text String
Question: I have some de-identified data where the date is buried in different starting points within a text string. In Tableau, is there a way to find the year of participation without asking for help from my data engineers? Here’s an example of the string I’m talking about. Any help is appreciated! The good news […]
Questions from Tableau Training: Isolating Rank with Parameters and Calculations
“I have sales information about all 50 states, but I only want to see a single state and how it ranks. Sounds like a table calculation, but there’s a catch. Table calculations in Tableau only compute the calculation on data that is in your view. If I filter so I’m only looking at the state […]
Class Notes from TC18 Devs on Stage
What a week at Tableau Conference! I had a great time catching up with some former students, and for all of us, one of the biggest highlights was the fabulous Devs on Stage keynote. For those unfamiliar, this session is where some of the Tableau employees responsible for exciting new features present to TC attendees. […]
PYD71 – Duane Pierce
The podcast heads back to Singapore with Jia to talk to Duane Pierce. Duane started the Singapore Tableau User Group, so you could say he knows what he’s talking about. Jia goes behind the visualizations to learn about Duane, how he got started in data AND how he got to SE Asia. For you foodies, […]
Why Designing for Data Matters
“Hey, there are some leftover sandwiches from today’s TUG in the kitchen if anyone wants some.” “Well, I was planning on being at that meeting, but I got pulled in to help with the TUG on Thursday.” “Hey, Andrea, I think it’d be a great opportunity for you to learn a little more about Tableau […]