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, […]
Questions from Tableau Training: How Can I Use My Current Report to Create a Viz?
Often times during training, students approach me with a pretty understandable issue. “I already build this report. How can I use my current output to build a visualization in Tableau?” My initial response is: “Let’s see if we can access the original data. Using the transactional database will allow for additional (and easily repeatable!) analysis.” But what […]
Off-Label Uses for Measure Names and Measure Values in Tableau
Sometimes, I feel like I’m cheating the system when I find a neat way to use something that Tableau has to offer. Other times, I feel like a genius for doing an end run around them. Is that bad? Well, either way, I’m here to show you how to use Measure Names and Measure Values […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – August 2016
Greetings, friends! As you may already know, the InterWorks blog is jam-packed full of IT and data goodness. Whether you come here for Tableau, Alteryx, data warehousing, Dell, VMware, you name it, we’ve got a little something for everyone. We’re not ALL business, of course; we have plenty of other blogs that showcase who we […]
Investment Planning in Tableau: Part 1 – CAGR
Every decade, I spend a few weeks planning the next 10 years. This thinking normally encompasses career and investment goals. This time, I decided to expand my time horizon. I’m 57 years old, so I wanted to start thinking about what my personal financial situation looks like in 10–20–38 year time horizons. Why 38 years? Well, […]
Open Data Viz: San Francisco Restaurant Scores
The City of San Francisco’s Health Department is always busy making sure our local restaurants are meeting food safety standards. Thanks to SF Open Data, scores and violations for every restaurant are available to anyone. Naturally, I wanted to take this data and give it life in Tableau. But before getting into Tableau, I had to blend and and […]
I Gantt Believe It’s Not a Reference Line!
One of my favorite viz types in the history of the whole wide world of Tableau is the bullet chart. I’m not sure I’ve ever produced a workbook that didn’t make use of this awesome “progress to goal” option because it’s simple, easy-to-understand and visually appealing. To wit: You can easily tell which products haven’t […]
Adding Images to Projects on Tableau Server
Here’s a feature that’s been unofficially around for a while on Tableau Server, but is now supported on Tableau Server 10. We’ve all got Tableau Servers that look like this. Lots of projects which we have access to, and all pretty boring looking. Wouldn’t you prefer that it looked like this instead? Now you can. […]
PYD15 – Josh Tapley – Data + Dashboard Guru
Josh Tapley, from data-ink.com, joins Zen Master Robert Rouse to talk about his background in data, Makeover Monday, finding and hiring the right candidates, and the importance of the Tableau community.