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Feed: What's New. Author: Andy Cotgreave. Good day, everyone! I’m back with the latest round up of Tableau blog content. This time, I’m looking at content from April 2020. What did I see? Plenty of posts about collaboration. While many of us around the world are in lockdown, virtual communication has become the norm for everyone—which, if you have time, actually improves the ability to get together with other people and work through ideas together. Kendra Allenspach and Keith Dykstra wrote Neat Lessons Learned from Messy Projects, an honest article about the highs and lows of collaboration. I appreciate their ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Bethany Lyons. Tip: Constants adopt the level of detail of their calculation Before relationships, a data source had a single level of detail. All constant calculations had that level of detail. For example SUM(1) returned the total number of records in the table. In a multi-table data source with relationships, there are many levels of detail. A constant calculation such as SUM(1) has its own level of detail, essentially a single row, and returns “1”. If a constant is used in a calculation that contains a field, the constant adopts the level of detail of that ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Tanna Solberg. Andy and Cole jump into their conversation about how they’re teaching data concepts at home and the ways they’re learning about their own ‘grown-up’ jobs in the process. Cole gives an overview of how she’s weaving data into her kids’ everyday lives during quarantine, including activities like visualizing what they like to eat for dinner. Watch the segment here. Cole also talks about how she works math and logic into data activities with her kids. By thinking about when to bring in aspects of storytelling, how to think about an audience, and different ways ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Andre De Vries. 26 May, 2020 | Andre de Vries Automate Data Quality Warnings with Webhooks Introduction Data quality warnings are a great addition to any Tableau Server and Online deployment. This messages feature is part of the Data Catalogue, which makes up the Data Management add-on. If you enable this feature you can, for example, inform your users that a data source has problems. You can set these messages on various data assets so that everyone is aware of any potential issues would they be using any of these assets. Together with another great ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Melody Cheung. As Christine graduates from Münster University later this year, she considers how having data skills will give her a competitive edge in her job search. By knowing Tableau and passing the Desktop Specialist certification exam, Christine shared her thoughts on having data skills and putting this certification on her CV: “[It gives me] a greater advantage for some jobs. It’s a good qualification that will help me to stand out in my job hunt. In the future, tools like Tableau will become more and more important, and important for businesses to visualize their data ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Adi McCrea. 22 May, 2020 | Adi McCrea Case study: office relocation and the impact on employee commutes The Information Lab and TravelTime bring you location intelligence tools for office relocation logistics Moving to a new office is a significant investment. Many of these costs are visible up-front: leasing, utilities, insurance. However, there is also the potential for a business to impose a significant cost on its most important asset – the workforce. Adding time or cost to an employee’s commute will cause inconvenience and stress. The ultimate outcome may be reduced productivity, lack of ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Adi McCrea. 22 May, 2020 | Adi McCrea Behind the headlines – COVID testing blackspots and iGeolise TravelTime Around a million people are more than one hour’s drive away from a COVID-19 regional testing centre The Telegraph, (29/04/2020) Today we’re digging into the analysis behind this headline. We’ll focus on how we generate travel time extents and calculate proximity to COVID-19 regional testing centres. We’ll be using the TravelTime (iGeolise) isochrone macro, built by The Information Lab consultant Ben Moss. To follow along at home, download the workflows here (you’ll need to visit TravelTime to ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Adi McCrea. 22 May, 2020 | Adi McCrea Case study: retail store location The Information Lab and TravelTime bring you location intelligence tools for retail site selection In retail, getting insights quickly is key. Location intelligence and data-driven decision-making are crucial elements in making sure opportunities are seized. The release of the new travel time macros for Alteryx help put the right intelligence in your hands. Built by The Information Lab consultant Ben Moss for TravelTime (iGeolise), rapid insight is generated with the help of a core suite of tools: Let’s look at how these ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Sasha Singh, Daniel Grady. Building your flow with Tableau Prep When you are cleaning your data in any of the available step types (Clean, Union, Join, etc.), you are in what we call Interactive Mode in Tableau Prep. Interactive Mode delivers direct, interactive feedback as you clean, combine, and reshape your data. For example, if you join two tables together in a Join step, you will see the final join result—down to the number of rows—immediately. At times, Tableau Prep may also sample your data. Sampling ensures responsiveness to keep you in the flow of your ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Chris Love. 12 May, 2020 Alteryx and Analytic Process Automation – Beyond the Hype Chris Love looks behind Alteryx’s recent announcement (May 2020) around Analytic Process Automation and digs into what is behind the hype, how it affects you and why it matters. What did Alteryx announce? Let us look at Alteryx’s press release, in case you missed the announcement, the full text is here: Alteryx, Inc. (NYSE: AYX) today unveiled its enhanced analytic process automation (APA) platform, which unifies analytics, data science and business process automation in one, end-to-end platform. By bringing data, processes and ... Read More