NFL Player Arrests Visualized in Tableau
Fame and money can do extraordinary things to people. Some use their position for good while many others go in the opposite direction. If you want proof, look no further than the NFL. We love our professional athletes, especially those that play football, but it’s no mystery that several of those athletes have a tendency to get in trouble. […]
Tableau Driver’s Ed: The Role of Business – Evangelism
Tableau Drive is the roadmap for successfully taking a love of Tableau to a successful enterprise deployment. In part two of this series, we explored how the Tableau Drive methodology required IT and the business to forge a cooperative and collaborative partnership. In part three, we expanded more on IT’s role in that partnership. Now, […]
Dynamic Parameters in Tableau
Parameters are one of the most loved features of Tableau. You can use them in calculations, across multiple datasources, in titles and labels, and in countless other ways. Unfortunately, they are static. Unlike filters, parameters are a set list of values. You can build them based off of a field, but if that field changes, the […]
Easy Mapbox Integration with Tableau 9.2
Tableau 9.2 has many great features, but one of my favorite is Mapbox integration. For years, we’ve been able to build maps in Tableau, but we’ve been limited to a default set of maps. Now, with Mapbox, you can build beautiful, exciting maps for your audience with little extra effort. With built in Tableau integration, using Mapbox […]
Star Wars: Box Office Battle
When historians look back on the 20th Century, it can be summed up best by four major milestones: The Allies win the war America puts a man on the moon The invention of the personal computer “Star Wars” All of these are truly remarkable feats, but I’ll be talking about only one of these today A […]
A New Way to Visualize KPIs in Tableau
Key Performance Indicators are one of the most common things people need to display in a dashboard. This usually involves comparing current values or historical trends against a target value. Tableau makes it easy to show current values and trends in one dashboard, but this requires two separate views. In this post, I’ll describe a […]
The Tableau Performance Checklist: Rendering – Minimize Image & Shape File Sizes
Let’s take a look at our next guideline from the Rendering category: “Minimize the file size of any images or custom shapes where possible. As a general rule of thumb, keep images under 50kb.“ Let’s get started, shall we? Images & Custom Shapes In regards to rendering, images and custom shapes, you should really focus […]
Using the Data Interpreter in Tableau 9.2 to Recognize Sub Tables
I recently found a data set that was perfect for testing out the new Data Interpreter in Tableau 9.2. While discussions about Syrian refugees were ramping up, I sought out data about the situation, which led me to the UNHCR page dedicated to this crisis. Using the Excel download option at the top results in […]
Live Viz Easy with Tableau 9.2
At the beginning of my career with InterWorks, I knew only a fraction of what I do now about the Tableau Desktop tool. One of my very first posts mentioned the new Mac connector in 8.2. Upon the release of Tableau 9.2, I’m back to preview my favorite enhancements in Tableau Desktop! Connecting to Data It […]
Tableau Driver’s Ed: The Role of IT – Operations
In the previous article on Tableau Drive, we explored the necessary partnership between the leadership of the business and IT that must be forged to successfully implement the Tableau Drive methodology. We briefly visited the role of each group in this partnership. Today, we’ll more fully explore what those responsibilities are for IT and, in […]