Author: Tableau

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ravi Mistry. 15 February, 2019 | Ravi Mistry Project Griffon: Datasource & Workbook Audit With Project Griffon, we want to share examples and started with you – the Tableau Community. The objective here is to share tools which use what you have in front of you to help explain more about what’s going on. Please be sure to read the introduction to Project Griffon, and ensure that you have access to the Tableau Server Repository via the Postgres connection. Ask and ye shall receive! The first Project Griffon blog of 2019 comes via a request from Sam Parsons. Sam’s ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Adriana Gil Miner. As the standard language of analytics for business users and analytics professionals, Tableau is one of the fastest-growing technical job skills in today's job market. And Tableau helps people learn and develop data skills fast. When people explore data in an easy, iterative way that provides immediate feedback, users feel more connected to their data, which leads to deeper understanding and better decisions. Tableau’s unique user experience paired with our industry-leading education and user enablement resources are proven to help people develop skills, unlock curiosity, and unleash their creativity using data—helping our customers ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Joe Macari. 14 February, 2019 | Joe Macari Finding the latest year in multiple categories Here is my problem: I have a number of countries and some sporadic data over the years. My challenge is to isolate the latest data point as shown below. The first thing I want to do is bring in my measure, in this case ‘Percentage’, to the filters shelf. It doesn’t really matter how this filter is configured as we are about to change it. The next step is to turn this from a green, continuous filter to a blue, ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Robin Kennedy. 14 February, 2019 | Robin Kennedy Tableau releases the Data Management Add-on for Tableau Server In February 2019 Tableau released Tableau Server version 2019.1. This version now gives the option for Prep users to be able to schedule flows using the hotly anticipated ‘Tableau Conductor’. In this post we examine what capabilities this brings, and what you need for your organisation to enable it in your Tableau environment. Data Management Add-on Managing a flow using Tableau Prep Conductor The first thing to note is that Tableau Conductor, which gives scheduling capabilities for ‘Flows’ ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ben Moss. 14 February, 2019 | Ben Moss Documentation Best Practices with Alteryx Great documentation is a hugely important asset in any environment where your work is consumed/used by others; heck, it’s even good to jog our own minds!In this blog I want to outline an array of methods we use to document our Alteryx workflows/macros/apps that we create and publish within our internal environment. On a high level, what the hell does your workflow do? Start with a title, that is descriptive; but keep it as short and succinct as possible.Some examples from our ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Alejandro De La Cruz. It has been an exciting week for Tableau with the unveiling of Ask Data, our new natural language capability and a powerful way for anyone at your company to get insights from data. If you haven’t had a chance to take it for a test drive, head on over to our interactive demo to try it for yourself! To celebrate the newest release of Tableau—complete with Ask Data, Prep Conductor, and a bundle of new features—we’re bringing you a special broadcast! Tune in for a deep dive to learn how you can ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Gwilym Lockwood. 15 February, 2019 | Gwilym Lockwood Dynamic Date Filtering in Alteryx It’s 2019. Hooray. The change of a year is one of my least favourite things, professionally speaking, because January 2nd is when you find out how much stuff breaks because somebody (possibly you) has hard-coded a date somewhere in all your pipelines. Suddenly, all your dashboards are blank because somebody’s put filter Year=2018 on, or all the YoY calculations are off because it’s looking at [2018]/[2017] instead of [CurrentYear]/[PreviousYear].  Sure enough, I spent a few days in January tracing through several Alteryx ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Andrew Beers. Tableau revolutionized analytics with a drag-and-drop interface, keeping you in the flow as you explore your data. With Ask Data, it’s even easier. Just type in a question and get your answer in the form of an interactive visualization. For example, you can type, “Who are our highest discount customers” and Tableau will return an interactive visualization that answers your question. Refine your results with follow-up questions, interact directly with the visualization, or jump into Tableau’s drag-and-drop interface to dive deeper. You can even share your insights with others—all in one seamless platform. You ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Youssef Shoukry. You told us you want the ability to schedule and manage flows created with Tableau Prep Builder (that’s the new name for Tableau Prep)—and we listened. Today we are introducing Tableau Prep Conductor, with new scheduling, alerting, and management features to ensure your organization is always using clean and trusted data that is ready for analysis. Prep Conductor is fully integrated with the Tableau platform, allowing analysts and data stewards to leverage the horsepower, permissions, and security of a server environment. Centralized management — For administrators, we're giving you greater visibility into self-service data ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Megan Fay. Your relationship to data will differ greatly from others in your organization. There’s no “one-size fits all” learning plan to turn everyone from newbies to data experts, but thinking about the way you use Tableau in your role (and ways you’d like to!) can help you choose an appropriate learning path. Tableau’s role-based licenses allow for the differences in the way people interact with data, and therefore have different training to address the skills needed for each. Creators Are you doing deep data prep and analysis? Responsible for creating content for others? This can ... Read More