Fun with Window Functions in Tableau
Table calculations are one of the hardest functions to understand in Tableau Desktop. A lot of us are guilty of clicking through every single option on the table calculation window until we find something that looks right. There is a lot of great material out there to help polish up your table calculations, so I’ll […]
My Machine Learning Journey: Introduction
I finally cracked and decided to shove everything in my personal life aside for the next few months to take on Udacity’s Machine Learning Nanodegree Program. Goodbye video games and ice-cold beer! On second thought, beer, you should stay. I might require a cheerleader. Jokes aside, I’ve had my eyes on this program for quite some time. After […]
Questions from Tableau Training: Top N Highlight Table
While teaching a Desktop I and II Accelerated class last week in Perth, I got an interesting question from a Tableau student named Clint. “Can you make a highlight dynamic so that it will highlight just the top 10 or top 20?” When it comes to Tableau, the answer is always a big YES! For this […]
PYD44 – Alberto Cairo – Visual Trumpery
Returning to Podcast Your Data! this week is Alberto Cairo! You may remember him from one of our very first podcasts over a year ago. As the Knight Chair of Visual Journalism at the University of Miami, he has in-depth experience with the state of data journalism today. He discusses his lecture tour “Visual Trumpery,” […]
Making a Case for Tableau Tooltips
As purveyors of analytics, we often come against the buttresses of change aversion. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in the lack of acceptance of Tableau tooltips. How often do you present your end users with a powerful and dynamic viz only to be met with, “But where is the legend?” This can be a disheartening conversation to […]
The Netherlands TUG Is Back and Better than Ever
We’ve got exciting news for the Tableau community: The Netherlands Tableau User Group (TUG) is officially meeting again! And we wouldn’t dream of missing out. Hopefully, the short video above and my summary below will help share the experience and invite you to participate in the next TUG event in your city. NL TUG Leadership Team […]
The Biggest TC17 Takeaways
It’s a data nerd’s favorite time of year! That’s right, the 2017 Tableau Conference has come and gone with all the updates and announcements you crave. Don’t forget that you can be part of the action via Tableau’s conference site, where videos from keynotes and sessions are available to stream now! Last year, Tableau gave us an ambitious […]
Our Favorite Tweets from #Data17
Can you believe the 2017 Tableau Conference is already over? Spanning four days with hundreds of sessions and over 14,000 attendees, it really is the data event of the year. It was also the social media event of our year. Our keynote live tweet had over 100 tweets, which pushed us over 10k tweets! To commemorate […]
How to Create a BCG Growth-Share Matrix in Tableau
While working with a recent client, we tried to answer which product categories their business should keep investing in and which categories are not worth the effort of selling. At this point, I remembered the strategic marketing classes I took during my time at university. One of the tools that we learned about was the […]
Event Debrief – September 2017
September went by in a flash with every day bringing more and more anticipation for the 2017 Tableau Conference. And now it’s upon us! However, gearing up for TC17 isn’t the only thing we were busy with. We traveled near (Oklahoma City) and far (Berlin) to spread the data-word. Back by popular demand was Brewalyics, […]