Author: Tableau

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ravi Mistry. 23 April, 2018 | Ravi Mistry Consultant’s Diary – Filter Customisation I’m going to try and share some of the techniques and methods I use as a consultant. Using Tableau & Alteryx daily means that I’ve found I take small techniques, tips & tricks for granted. Hopefully this will be useful for you all. One of the things I love about Tableau is that I never stop learning new things. Recently, I was supporting my colleague Luke Stoughton teach Tableau to a group of university students – and I learned something about filters ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Pablo Saenz de Tejada. 18 April, 2018 | Pablo Sáenz de Tejada Maestro Beta Overview All the information in this post is based on the Project Maestro Beta 4 release. Functionality and options available might change when the product is officially released. Probably you have already heard about Project Maestro, Tableau’s coming soon ETL tool that allows us to have a fast and visual overview of our data and to prepare, cleanse and blend it easily to at the end output it to Tableau. There isn’t an official release date but in the meantime you ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ravi Mistry. 16 April, 2018 | Ravi Mistry 3 reasons to attend TC Europe 2018 It’s conference season! When I joined the Information Lab in 2015, I’d only been exposed to a small world of Tableau, and indeed data visualisation. In our third week, the first Data School cohort was taken to the London Tableau Conference to take our Tableau Desktop Qualified Associate exams – and immerse ourselves in the world which is Tableau. Oh to be young again..And what a world we found. With the Tableau Conference Europe just around the corner, I thought ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Anna Noble. 16 April, 2018 | Anna Noble Be a Woman in Data Viz: The Data School Experience Is a career in data viz right for you? Thirty-five females attended Be a Women in Data Viz to find out. The day’s mix of training, data exploration and socialising gave these women a taste of what our Data School training is all about. Think you would enjoy the 4-month challenge? Let’s break that down and find out. A diverse group with a shared love of data At the event, we had journalists,  market researchers, PhD students, all willing to give ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Marissa Michelotti. For most finance professionals, data can be the key to important insights and the single biggest hurdle to getting answers. Due to the increasing complexity of reporting systems and growing expectations of data-based executives, data gathering and preparation has become too time consuming. Traditionally, Excel has been the ‘solution’ for the various reporting and data needs of finance professionals. However, Excel and other, simple solutions can ‘handcuff’ your analysis once data sets become large or complex. There are business intelligence solutions with the capability to extract critical insights from your finance data, though. When ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Marissa Michelotti. For 15 years, we've been on a mission to help people see and understand data. As data volumes continue to grow and more people need data to make better decisions, this mission has never been more important. When we introduced VizQL, we revolutionized the way people interact with data by allowing simple drag-and-drop operations to create sophisticated analyses. We also democratized data analysis, providing people of all skill sets access to powerful analytical capabilities. Today, Tableau continues to transform the way organizations approach business intelligence. In the past 12 months, we delivered over 100 ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Craig Bloodworth. I’ve recently been thinking about scheduling Alteryx Gallery Apps that require the interface tools to be configured. Regular Gallery Apps can of course be easily scheduled easily from the browser interface: However this only allows you to set the time and interval for the app to run, not the interface configuration. What do I mean by this? Here’s an example of an Alteryx Connect loader published to the Gallery: There’s some pretty important stuff that needs setting in here for the app to run successfully. There is a documented way to schedule loaders however ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: William Guicheney. Hey, everyone! One of the most talked about features of Tableau 10.5 is Viz inTooltips – the ability to embed charts into the tooltips of other sheets. As the last few bugs of the update are dealt with and removed, businesses are going to increasingly start updating their Desktop and Server instances of the software to this version. As such, the team and I thought it would be a great time to brainstorm on some uses cases for the new feature. We’ve listed them below, and include a short explanation of the extra analytical ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: William Guicheney. Hi, everyone! It’s been a long time since I’ve written one of these. I am a member of DS6 – the 6th cohort of the Data School – and today I’m going to be sharing my reflections on my first 10 months of the graduate scheme. Even though Andy strongly encourages us to write our reflections on the first 4-months of the Data School program – the formal training – right after we graduate, I chose to wait. I wanted to see how the well the training translated into being a successful Tableau and ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Chris Love. One of the parts I love about my role at The Information Lab is I get to work with lots of fantastic problems from customers; yesterday was no different. I was approached by one of our customers (Adam Green) via one of our support channels with a very interesting challenge. In this blog post I’m going to walk through the steps that Adam and I took  to solve the problem, some of the dead-ends we hit and the final solution. I hope there’s value in showing the overall approach to problem solving, because ... Read More