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 […]
Recapping Our Favorite Sessions from TC18
Tableau Conference is known for a lot of things, not the least of which are the fantastic sessions from Tableau customers and partners. This year featured some of our favorite sessions to date, including a delve into people insights at AbbVie as well as a Tableau Server workshop from one of InterWorks Europe’s brightest. You […]
Advance with Assist: Removing Options from Filter List
Question: I have a long list of products in my data, but I no longer want the user to be able to select a certain few. I don’t want to exclude the data from my extract, so what other options do I have? This question could apply to many different scenarios during development, and there […]
