Tableau Hacks: Mark Label Wrapping
A niche one today, but it does come up in some vizzes every now and then. Can you remember the forklift where we use placeholder values like “min(1)” or something similar just to draw a mark in a graph to than use for something else? Well, sometimes you might want to use a placeholder mark […]
Data Virtualization, and Why ELT to Snowflake Is Usually Better
What Is Data Virtualization? Data virtualization is an approach to data integration that can be thought of as an alternative to the more common ETL/ELT + data warehouse based approach. With data virtualization, the source data is left in place and accessed on the fly as required by a client query. A data virtualization application […]
Tableau Hacks: Small Multiples
In Tableau, it is pretty straightforward to build multiple smaller graphs in one view. Want to split this bar chart by country? Add your [Country] dimension to the Row shelf. Want small line charts by [Category] going across? Add the [Category] to the Row shelf. But what if you want to make a grid of […]
Leveraging Published Data Sources in Tableau Pulse
Now that you’ve decided to test drive Pulse, what do you need to get ready? In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at the data required to harness the full power of Pulse. Pulse Needs Your Data From earlier posts about Pulse on this blog, you may have seen that Pulse is currently […]
Take Your Pulse: How Does Tableau Pulse Work?
Tableau Pulse is coming — The newest development of the Tableau world, launched and driven by artificial intelligence. Its main goal: To reach that 70% of people within companies that don’t have the word data in their work titles — people who don’t necessarily know how to build a dashboard or have the time to […]
Simplifying Secure Access to Snowflake via Okta SSO
This is the second and last part of the series on managing Snowflake users and roles via Okta. In our first part, we introduced a user named John Doe in Okta and assigned him the attribute DATA_VIEWER. Our Okta Rule then zipped John right into an Okta group also called DATA_VIEWER, which we already had […]
Tableau Hacks: Dynamic Parameters
In my previous blog, we discussed Multi-value parameters via the use of parameter actions and concatenation of values. Here, we used a view on the dashboard to act as a driver for the parameter to be filled with one or more values. You can also have multiple views act as drivers for parameters, and […]
Find Your Path to AI: Getting Started With Tableau Pulse
A video version of this post is available toward the bottom of the page. Ready or not, A.I is coming. It’s the latest buzzword that we’re all hearing everywhere! The problem is very few of us understand what it is and the impact it will have on our daily life and work. For me, the […]
Tableau Hacks: Multi-Value Parameters
After a long pause, let’s get back into the Tableau Hacks. In this one, we are going to have a look into multi-value parameters. It is one of those little pet peeves — parameters can only hold a single value at a time. You can do little tricks, like adding an “All” option to a […]
Streamlining User and Role Management in Snowflake via Okta
In an insightful blog series, my colleague Danny dived into setting up SCIM and SSO with Azure Active Directory (AAD) – a must-read for organizations using AAD for managing Snowflake users and roles. AAD’s popularity is clear, but it’s not without workflow challenges, especially since high-level Azure roles such as Group Administrator and User Administrator are like gold dust and tightly […]