Author: Tableau

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Pablo Saenz de Tejada. 18 July, 2018 | Pablo Sáenz de Tejada Filter outliers in Tableau calculating the Distance to IQR If you are familiar with the box and whisker plot you already know is a very good chart to check the distribution of data and highlight outliers. But sometimes is not enough to just show the outliers, sometimes we also want to filter the outliers because those outliers can be caused due to data issues or some particular cases we don’t want to include in our analysis. How can we filter the outliers in ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ben Moss. 12 July, 2018 | Ben Moss Downgrading Alteryx Workflows As quite an active member of the Alteryx Community I often find myself downloading workflows and sharing solution files with other members of the community. It works great and this is one of the best ways in helping educate people, by sharing a solution that they can then break apart and apply to their specific usecase. However, on occasion, we will find ourselves out of sync, version wise, with our Alteryx Designer installs, especially in the period following new releases. I then get asked ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Robbin Vernooij. 10 July, 2018 | Robbin Vernooij Tableau Conference 2018 Europe – A Data Schoolers Perspective Analytical transformation, Europe-wide community, people looking for different outcomes when using Tableau. Those are the three mental notes I wrote down after my first day at the Tableau Conference 2018 Europe at the Excel Centre in London.As a recently ‘graduated’ Data Schooler last May, I was lucky to have been able to join my very first Tableau Conference. Many amazing moments and inspiring talks later it’s now time to step back and reflect on this experience. Below few ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Hannah Blacksmith. Businesses’ financial transactions have a degree of complexity and provide exposure. With lack of understanding for the underlying transaction details, there’s exposure to risk, strong probability of missing data, and a chance of data duplication, just to name a few considerations. And without understanding the details, financial and company leadership question their financial standing. Are they in the green, black or red, and what factors impact their position? Using a business intelligence solution such as Tableau, there are no unanswered questions with transactions and there’s clear understanding of your cash flow—critical in a fast-moving, ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Emma Whyte. 4 July, 2018 | Emma Whyte Workout Wednesday Live at TC18Europe Workout Wednesday Live is now on at Tableau Conference Europe! There are three levels of Workout Wednesday today. Completing any level can get you a chance to win either The Big Book of Dashboards or Now You See It. You’ll need to be attending TC Europe to come pick up your prize from The Information Lab stand at The Data Playground (Level 0). You’ll have to show your finished viz to one of The Information Lab members on the stand to be ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Natasha Kurakina. 3 July, 2018 | Natasha Kurakina Scraping a password protected webpage in Alteryx with cURL Imagine you need to download all the invoices from a supplier’s website which is password protected. Also, the page with the invoice links sits behind a login page, which makes the setup in Alteryx a bit more tricky. In this post I am going to demonstrate how to scrape the data from a password protected webpage with cURL in Alteryx. As an example I will be using the TFL portal of open data feeds. The first page is ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Pablo Saenz de Tejada. 2 July, 2018 | Pablo Sáenz de Tejada Tableau PostgreSQL Repository: Viewing all groups, users and most recent login We are seeing more and more interest from our customers to analyse and get additional information from Tableau’s Server Repository, the database where Tableau Server stores data about all user interactions, extract refreshes, workbooks, sites, projects, users, groups and more. If you haven’t heard about this database and want to know a bit more about it or you want to gain access to it, I’ll recommend you to visit the post from my friend ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Craig Bloodworth. 28 June, 2018 | Craig Bloodworth What’s happening at Tableau Conference Europe 2018 It’s less than a week to go until Tableau Conference Europe 2018 kicks off at the ExCel Centre in London! The team here at The Information Lab can’t wait to once again take over the Data Playground and spend a crazy few days with the wonderful folks of the Tableau community. This will be our fifth year sponsoring Tableau’s conference in Europe and our third time as the top sponsor. Data Playground Supercharged Being able to sponsor at the top ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Emma Whyte. 27 June, 2018 | Emma Whyte Workout Wednesday Live comes to Tableau Conference Europe 2018 Attendees of TC Europe 2018 will have the chance to compete in three levels of Workout Wednesday Live for prizes. Workout Wednesday started in 2017, formed by Andy Kriebel and Emma Whyte of The Information Lab. Each Wednesday either Andy or Emma released a challenge: to re-create a Viz created in Tableau. In 2018 the challenges have continued under the reign of Rody Zakovich and Luke Stanke. For TC Europe, Andy and Emma have prepared three new Workout ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Marissa Michelotti. Narrative Science is an artificial intelligence company that specializes in Natural Language Generation. Their technology is able to interpret your data and transform it into insightful, natural language “narratives” that help you find new insights from your dashboards. After adding the Narratives for Tableau Extension to a dashboard, I can choose which dimensions should be used for the generated narratives. Once I configure my preferences for the narrative, data is sent to Narrative Science’s Natural Language Generation engine and then displayed in an easy-to-digest format: And, because the Extensions API can “listen” to user ... Read More