PYD04 – Michael Treadwell – InterWorks Analytics Consultant
Michael Treadwell, an InterWorks analytics consultant and former train engineer, talks about Alteryx, Python, R and life on the open railroad tracks....
PYD04 – Michael Treadwell – InterWorks Analytics Consultant
Questions from Tableau Training: Matching Mark Color
We get lots of questions conducting Tableau trainings across the country. Many of them unveil new functionality that Tableau releases that we as trainers come across first when teaching new Tableau users. The below question has many answers, but I wanted to highlight something from Tableau...
Tableau Deep Dive: LOD – LOD Calculations vs. Table Calculations
At first glance, it could appear as if there is redundancy between level of detail calculations and table calculations. In fact, you might wonder if you could use table calculations to accomplish much of the functionality for LODs. Let’s consider a simple use case for...
Tableau Conference on Tour 2016: 3 Thoughts from Sydney
Tableau purchased Power Tools in 2019. Contact Us for more information. The 2016 Tableau Conference on Tour train has begun, and the first stop was Sydney, Australia. Event organizers announced an attendance of over 800 data-crazy Tableau users. This is an even bigger draw than Melbourne last year....
10 Questions for Tableau Zen Master Jonathan Trajkovic
I met Jonathan at the Tableau Conference in Las Vegas last year. He has a background that includes science and business. He’s an engaging and talented fellow. The Questions Q: When and how did you start using Tableau? Trajkovic: I started using Tableau four years ago when I was a...
Tableau Deep Dive: LOD – The Fixed Calculation
In Part 4 of our Tableau Deep Dive on level of detail, we’re going to examine the last of the three LOD calculation types – Fixed. Remember: This series is building upon each article, and I highly recommend that you start with Part 1 and go...
Tableau Training Tips: Date Parts vs. Date Values
Date Fields are one of the trickiest concepts for Tableau beginners. In this Tableau Training Tips video, I explain what they are as well as how/when to use continuous and discrete fields. Feel free to follow along in Tableau on your desktop to master this concept in...
Preloading Dashboards with the Tableau JavaScript API
Even with the best planning, we occasionally end up with less than speedy dashboards. Tableau is great at crunching large amounts of data – but when you are looking at many different slices of millions of records, anything would be slow. There are many ways to improve the...
Tableau Deep Dive: LOD – Die FIXED-Funktion
Fixed LOD Berechnung Die INCLUDE- wie auch die EXCLUDE-Berechnungen verhalten sich relativ zur Visualisierung, in der sie genutzt werden. Wenn Du mit INCLUDE eine Dimension einschließt, die bereits in der Ansicht vorhanden ist, wird die Berechnung keinen extra Effekt haben. Genauso wird EXCLUDE keinen Effekt haben, wenn...
Tableau Deep Dive: LOD – The Exclude Calculation
This is the third article in our Tableau Deep Dive on level of detail. Part 1 reviewed the idea of detail. Part 2 introduced level of detail calculations and examined the Include LOD calculation. Let’s now jump into Exclude. A Use Case For our examples in this article, we’ll...