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Feed: What's New. Author: Bergen Schmetzer. Editor's note: This article originally appeared in Tableau Public. Iron Viz—the world’s largest data competition—was launched in 2011 in an effort to showcase the incredible talent of the Tableau Community. Since then, hundreds of data enthusiasts from around the world have participated for a chance to be crowned the Iron Viz Champion. And in 2020, for the first time ever, we created a data competition designed specifically for students—Iron Viz: Student Edition.  Iron Viz: Student Edition gives students the opportunity to develop (and show-off) their data skills, connect with the broader #DataFam, and practice ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Hanna Nykowska. 19 January, 2021 | Hanna Nykowska How to turn macros into custom Alteryx tools Disclaimer: This post focuses on Alteryx macros. You can actually make custom tools that are not a macro, but that is way beyond the scope of this post. You can find more on custom tools built with SDKs here. Why? One of the main reasons (the only reason?) for custom tools is creating ready solutions for problems you find yourself having to solve a lot. If you know others run into the same issues, you can share it with ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Robbin Vernooij. 18 January, 2021 | Robbin Vernooij Commercelayer REST API calls in Alteryx This blog will cover some of the basic authentication and automation when using the REST API from Commercelayer in Alteryx. Quoting Commercelayer’s website: “Commerce Layer is a headless commerce platform and order management system that lets you add global shopping capabilities to any website, mobile app, chatbot, or IoT device, with ease. Use a best-of-breed CMS to create beautiful content. Make it shoppable through our blazing-fast and secure API, on a global scale.”* In practice, this means also means that Commercelayer ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Andrew Beers. Data and analytics have long been known to accelerate business transformation and growth, but in this digital age where people spend significant time both online and offline it’s imperative that organizations start looking at data in a new way. Data is an incredibly powerful way to connect with people. We’ve never seen more evidence for this than in 2020. While the pandemic shuttered and disrupted businesses around the world, everyone had to shift many of their real-life activities to the digital world. For brick-and-mortar retailers, it meant that they had to create a way ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: collin.smith. 14 January, 2021 Allow users to show and hide map layers in Tableau With the new addition of map layers in Tableau 2020.4, there’s an exciting level of control over maps that viz designers can exercise. The easy-to-use map layers cards almost feel like designing in GIS or Google Earth. However, there’s no native way to give your end-user the same level of control over what show and what to hide. Luckily, there’s an easy way to do empower them using Boolean parameters. Let’s walk through it using the Superstore dataset! 1. Create your ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Nick Brisoux. The past year showed us the importance of data and analytics like never before, paramount to empowering organizations with agility and resilience in the face of uncertainty. Though 2020 was challenging and full of change, one constant was our committed work with our partner Snowflake on behalf of our mutual customers. Together, we’re helping them eliminate data gaps, empower every user with data and analytics, and deliver richer experiences. We’re continuously collaborating and maturing our integration to ensure we stay ahead of the technology capabilities our shared customers have come to expect. Today, we’d ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: ben.wells. 12 January, 2021 | Ben Wells How to Create Diagonal Reference Lines in Tableau (Part 2 – Growth Target in a Time Series) Following on from How to Create Diagonal Reference Lines in Tableau (Part 1 – Scatterplot). It can also be useful to add a diagonal reference line to show a growth target on a time series graph. This can be used as a benchmark actual sales against the growth target shown as line on the graph. In this example let’s assume that you are retrospectively evaluating sales and you wish to compare ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: jonathan.allenby. 11 January, 2021 | Jonathan Allenby How to make “Reference Boxes” in Tableau Desktop A question was posed recently within The Information Lab’s network as to how one could go about creating a “reference box”; a shaded square on a scatterplot opposed to having two bands that go the entire way across the chart. In response, Brian Scally hypothesised that you could use further reference bands to cover up the extra shaded areas to turn shaded bands into a shaded box. After a little tinkering I’ve come up with the following solution and created ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: ben.wells. 8 January, 2021 How to Create Multiple Diagonal Reference Lines in Tableau (Part 1 – Scatterplot) Reference lines can be a powerful feature in aiding understanding and adding context (or reference!) to a visualisation. Adding horizontal or vertical reference lines in Tableau is a standard built-in feature but creating a diagonal reference line requires some extra user created calculations.This blog will be a part of a series; this article will show how to include multiple diagonal reference lines in a scatterplot, the second will show a growth reference line from a target in a ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Sue Kraemer. These two data literacy courses aim to provide foundational knowledge to students so they can understand, explore, and effectively visualize and communicate with data. These courses can serve as prerequisites for a variety of analytics, research methods, or data science curricula. Both courses are designed to cover a typical ten-week course (one quarter) at an accredited university. Lecture slides, homework assignments, discussion board activities, Tableau demos, and test banks are included—instructors need only tailor the content to their class, as they like. Data Literacy One focuses on the fundamentals of data, including variable types, ... Read More