Tableau Tip: Using Parameters & Table Calculations to Allow Users to Hide/Show Reference Lines
While in Chicago conducting a training last week a client asked me whether you can offer a hide/show option for reference lines on a published dashboard. My immediate thought was Tableau doesn’t have a native option to support this, but quickly my mind turned to how we can leverage parameters and table calculations to implement […]
Tableau Tip: How to Build a Combination Area Fill & Symbol Map Part 1
Last week, a client in Washington D.C. (and several clients before) have asked me about building combination maps that combine the new filled map style with the symbol map. This is not a Show Me option but is pretty easy to do once you understand the technique. We will be using the Superstore Sales Excel […]
Server Manager.lnk Not Found Windows 2008 R2
The Problem I recently ran into an issue where I was receiving the following error as soon as I logged on to a Windows 2008 R2 server: Windows cannot find ‘C:ProgramDataMicrosoftWindowsStart MenuProgramsAdministrative ToolsServer Manager.lnk’ After navigating to the directory, it was discovered that all the Administrative Tools were missing. Even after navigating to: My […]
Our Basecamp Primer
Basecamp is a project management and collaboration tool that allows all project information to be stored in a single location. Basecamp allows all members of the project, regardless of location, to stay completely connected to the project. This post is meant to serve as a basic primer for our clients (or others interested) on how […]
Self-Service Security in Tableau Server via Outlook Groups
Managing Tableau Server security can be a lot of work, especially when you’re dealing with tons of users from all over the enterprise. Fortunately, Tableau has an easy way to set this up once and let users manage it themselves using Active Directory Groups (aka Outlook Groups). Pre-requisites Tableau Server with Active Directory integration Exchange […]
Multi-Measure Dual Axis Charts
At 27,000ft on the way home from the Big Apple (New York City) with another quick blog post. No mud, barbed wire, or fire pits here, sorry to disappoint. I had a question come in about Multi-Measure Dual Axis Charts and I thought this might make a fun blog post. Before I get to the […]
Seeing Information via Tableau Software
I’m confident the sudden, all-encompassing change in pace for ‘data’ over the last few years has been fueled by our need to want more information out of our world. The immediacy and sheer speed with which it arrives is faster than most of us have been accustomed. This is not to say that the information […]
LTRIM and RTRIM not removing white space
I was writing a query today and came across a set of data with an annoying leading space. Or what I thought was a leading space. My first instinct was to throw this around my field: LTRIM(RTRIM([SKU])) But the space was still there. OMGWTFBBQ! After a bit of googling, I started to wonder if this […]
Soft links, hard links, junctions, oh my! Symlinks on Windows, a how-to.
First, a quick definition of terms. There are three kinds of ”symlinks” on Windows. soft links (also called symlinks, or symbolic links) hard links junctions (a type of soft link only for directories) Soft links can be created for files or directories. Hard links can only be created for files. Both soft and hard links […]
Tableau Software and the New BI
What do Tableau Software, Business Intelligence and User Experience have in common? Combined, they represent the New Age of Data. More specifically, they push data visualization, data personalization and data emergence to higher levels of understanding. At the present moment, we are seeing a massive cultural shift in how we understand our corporate data, industrial […]