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Feed: What's New. Author: Hannah Blacksmith. When you clean data, you often have to find inaccurate data values that represent real-world entities like country or airport names. This can be a tedious and error-prone process as you validate data values manually or bring in expected values from other data sources. Tableau Prep now recognizes a set of real-world entities including the eight geographic roles Tableau Desktop knows about, as well as email addresses and URLs (see details here). Now you can set up the Data Role of a field to let Tableau Prep know what real-world entity the field represents ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Hannah Blacksmith. Constellation Research is a Silicon Valley-based technology research and advisory firm specializing in digital transformation and disruptive technologies. In this recent report, author Doug Henschen, Vice President and Principal Analyst, explores the evolution of self-service BI and the rise of smart analytics in the market, examining four key areas in which Tableau continues to invest: Data prep, data analysis and discovery, natural language interactions, and predictive analytics. "Self-service brought BI and analytics to a broader base of users, but even with comparatively easy-to-use tools, such as Tableau, analysts and power users typically build dashboards ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Andy Kriebel. 31 August, 2018 | Andy Kriebel Why I created the Visual Vocabulary As the Head Coach of The Data School, I need to be on top of all things Tableau so that I can pass that knowledge onto our trainees. What I really hope they pick up is my method for learning and my constant to desire to get better at my craft. When they graduate from The Data School, they’re clearly some of the best Alteryx and Tableau users in the World. While that’s fantastic, unless they have an approach to problem ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Jonathan MacDonald. 28 August, 2018 | Jonathan MacDonald (Updated) Tableau Server housekeeping made easy – Windows Edition *** This is an update of an older blog post that I wrote about creating a backup and housekeeping script for Tableau Server. If you require housekeeping scripts for Tableau Server v2018.2 or later, then read on. If you require scripts for Tableau Server 2018.1 or earlier, then go here instead: https://www.theinformationlab.co.uk/2014/07/25/tableau-server-housekeeping-made-easy/ *** If you are looking for a Linux version of these scripts then have a look here: https://www.theinformationlab.co.uk/2018/03/08/tableau-server-housekeeping-made-easy-linux-edition/ The best thing about administering Tableau Server is its self-sufficiency ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Marissa Michelotti. This guest blog is from Paul Banoub, Director of Analytics as a Service at UBS in London. Paul has built a global Tableau deployment from scratch; helping users across the business and IT get the most from visual analytics. You can find more of his tips on enterprise deployments at vizninja.com and on Twitter @paulbanoub. I've been involved with Tableau for around five years now. First I was an enthusiastic user and then a site administrator, before getting the call to come to my current organisation and build a Tableau deployment from the ground ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Marissa Michelotti. Scope This type of strategy works best when a limited level of legacy will be ported into the new platform, or the organization is open enough to embrace a change in the way they do analytics. We won’t see many requests for old reports to be built in the new platform, but rather organizations will use this opportunity to review and change the way they use analytics. It’s also a good opportunity for companies to move into the cloud and leverage the flexibility of platforms such as AWS or cloud-based databases such as Snowflake ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Alexandra Hanna. 22 August, 2018 | Alexandra Hanna Tableau Mapping Memoirs Tableau evolves rapidly with new features. Plotting data on a map is one of those coolest features. This blog will show you a short history of how Tableau’s data mapping has developed over the last few years. Geographic roles and polygons, version 9.0 Mapping requires location data – a position on a map is determined by a set of coordinates which can originate in your data. Alternatively, Tableau can geocode geographies into latitude and longitude. For a complete list of geographic role types that ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Pablo Saenz de Tejada. As you may already know, in the new Tableau Server version 2018.2 there are some changes in the way Tableau Server Administrators manage the server with the introduction of the Tableau Services Manager (TSM).One of this changes is the replacement of the tabadmin Command Line by the new TSM Command Line. So maybe you want now to perform some of those basic tasks like creating backups, grant access to the server repository, create ziplogs, or change your Tableau Server header logo and you that you are used to run quite frequently ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Marissa Michelotti. Editor’s Note: This piece is part of the Back-to-School series on the Tableau blog. At Tableau, we feel that data skills are essential for the next generation of workers and business leaders. Tableau’s Academic Program seeks to arm students with the valuable analytical skills needed to make data-driven decisions, both academically and professionally. As the demand for data skills from employers continue to grow, universities have started to recognize the need to incorporate data analysis into their program’s curriculum. In Tableau’s 2018 Top Business Intelligence Trends report, academia investing in Analytics and Data Science ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: David Sanchez Martin. 15 August, 2018 | David Sánchez Martín Pascal’s Triangle – Alteryx Python SDK The original version of this article with working code is here . After a couple of posts (I & II) getting my feet wet with the Python SDK module for Alteryx I finally get to build a tool that actually uses some code: The Pascal’s Triangle generator Following the original recipe, I duplicated a sample folder, renamed the files, removed most of the superfluous code, added the pieces I needed and, finally, connected my code with the AyxPlugin. All ... Read More