How to Make Centered Scatter Plots and Quadrant Charts in Tableau
Have you ever wanted your scatter plots or quadrant analysis charts to be centered instead of skewed to one side of the axis? Perhaps you’ve even found yourself wanting to keep the axis centered as you interact with quick filters or dashboard actions. Well, you’re in luck! Take these steps and you’ll have what you’re […]
PYD17 – Advanced Analytics with Alex Lentz and Michael Treadwell
Consultant Alex Lentz and Alteryx Ace Michael Treadwell join Ben to talk about what predictive analytics is and philosophies and techniques for taking your data to the next level with R and Alteryx.
How I Went from Engineering to Advertising to Finance to InterWorks Analytics Consultant
At a glance, the title of this post might make it seem like I was jumping around before InterWorks. I had a freshly earned electrical engineering degree in one hand, my left foot had barely pivoted from completing a marketing analytics internship at one of the biggest advertising agencies in Chicago, and my right foot was stepping into […]
Questions from Tableau Training: How Can I Transform My Crosstab into a Flat List?
Here’s a question I got from Quoc about how to work with the structure of the data source he was receiving: “How can I transform my crosstab into a flat list?“ He wanted to take a table that looks like this: And make it into a flat list with a continuous date field. This is […]
The Tableau Wedding Planner
According to www.theknot.com, the average wedding in the United States costs approximately $30,000. With about two million weddings a year, this results in a multi-billion dollar industry. Every time someone says yes, plans must be made. Whether you are getting married at a courthouse, your parents backyard or the Ritz, we all have at least […]
Investment Planning in Tableau: Part 2 – Bollinger Bands
In the first post of this series, we reviewed how you can calculate compound annual growth rates in Tableau. This week, we’ll look at time series data using Bollinger Bands. A technical stock analyst named John Bollinger developed the technique and trademarked the name. Bollinger bands simply plot the moving average of a stock’s closing price. Typically […]
Alphabet Soup: Understanding Tableau 10 File Extensions
This article is updated with the new icons from Tableau 10 and expanded for additional file types. Previous article for Tableau 9 here. Acronyms, acronyms, acronyms – They dominate the internet, social media, everything. IMHO, probably too much. And, yes, Tableau is no different. It’s all just TMI. To help get you out of WTF […]
Questions from Tableau Training: Can I Create Text Hyperlinks on a Dashboard?
Here’s a question I often get in my Tableau training classes: “How do I create friendly text hyperlinks on a dashboard that open to an external webpage?” You may know how to bring a text object onto a Tableau dashboard, but what if you want your users to be able to click on that text […]
PYD16 – Dan Murray – Evangelist and Author
We’ve got Tableau Conference coming up, so we’re celebrating with a rerun of our original show. Dan Murray is a Tableau evangelist and author of “Tableau Your Data!”
Alteryx Batch Macros – Email Customized Reports to a List of Users
Have you ever had the pleasure of emailing customized sales reports to 25 regional managers? How about 100 customers? It probably took a nice chunk of your day clicking the same buttons in Outlook and verifying you’ve attached Joe’s sales report to Joe’s email address. Ever wish for an easy button? With Alteryx batch macros, […]