Tag: Tableau

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Sharmistha Chatterjee. Source Comprehensive and Comparative List of Feature Store Architectures for Data Scientists and Big Data Professionals Introduction & Motivation - Why Feature Store Feature store has become an important unit of organizations developing predictive services across any industry domain. Some of the earlier challenges in deploying ML solutions at scale involves : Developing and maintaining customized systems by individual teams with little or no coordination. No collaborative system for sharing features for similar type ML models (models from a similar domain or models addressing. same business use-cases or customer ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Sophia Shramko. By Sophia Shramko, Sr. Product Manager Tech, AWS Insights and Enterprise Tools By Michele Monclova, Sr. Manager of Product Management, AWS Insights and Enterprise ToolsBy Venkatesh Krishnan, Product Lead, Integrations, AWS Insights and Enterprise ToolsAmazon AppFlow is a fully managed no-code integration service enabling seamless and secure data flow between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. It allows you to source data from AWS services and SaaS applications such as Salesforce, and aggregate them in AWS data lakes and data warehouses to draw unique data-driven insights. Amazon AppFlow also ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Emily Chen. In Tableau 2020.3, site admins can now designate members—specific individuals, teams and departments, or even your entire organization—to be automatically granted a license and site role (Viewer, Explorer, Creator) upon their first time logging in to their Tableau Online or Tableau Server account. Admins can assign roles for users and groups before they login for the first time, so they’re automatically granted a seat. This removes the user’s need to request a license before using Tableau, and helps admins eliminate the time-consuming task of manually issuing one-off Tableau licenses. Grant license on sign in ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Steve Schwartz. In the U.S., 2020 has been a year marked by crisis and protests—and with an election in November, tensions will continue to run high. In times of uncertainty, it’s critical to understand where the risk of instability and political violence is highest. However, there’s been no centralized effort to collect comprehensive data on demonstrations and political violence across the country to create a sightline to future risks as the election nears. The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a Tableau Foundation partner, is stepping up to fill this information gap. Together with ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Andy Cotgreave. Hello everyone and welcome to the latest round up of the Tableau community highlights. July is typically a quiet month. For a lot of people it’s because of vacation, but for many it’s because focus turns to Iron Viz. As I write, at the start of August, entries have closed and the judging process begins for the final contestants who will battle it out for the 2020 Iron Viz championship. We will soon be showcasing all the entries l on the Tableau Public blog, but in the meantime, you can check out Will Sutton’s ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Craig Steven. 10 August, 2020 National Student Survey and University Rankings: Internal Project DS19s project last week was to collect both NSS and University rankings data then display this data in a way that’s easily digested by the viewer. Using the data, we created two dashboards for each NSS and Uni rankings. One was an overview dashboard and the second an interactive dashboard where an individual university can be compared to another University or University group. Data Prep The data collected from Times Higher Education and The Guardian was collected by scraping and utilising macros ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: ryan.lowers. 6 August, 2020 | Ryan Lowers Using Parameters as a data Source for Student Number Planning Covid-19 has presented the higher education industry with many challenges but arguably one of the most prescient right now is the issue of student number planning. It the best of times it would be a challenging undertaking to say the least but given the current climate of uncertainty it has become arguably even more crucial than ever.The point of this blog post is not looking at how to build a student number planning model from scratch because that ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Youssef Shoukry. If you use Tableau Server or Tableau Online, you can get a lot more out of the new write to external database capabilities by using Tableau Data Management in your Tableau sites. Write to database is fully integrated with Tableau Catalog. With this integration, the database tables are immediately included in the lineage and impact analysis, so admins and data stewards can keep track of where the data is going. This data is also available via the Metadata API as well as in the Postgres database, enabling admins to monitor where the data is ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Adam Selipsky. August 1 marked the one-year anniversary of the start of our journey together with Salesforce. In lieu of an anniversary celebration, we are honoring the values and generosity that are hallmarks of our two communities by making a donation to the World Food Program, to help in their fight against hunger. As I look back over these past 12 months, I can say with sincerity that the highs and lows of this time have been—and I’ve never uttered this word as often—“unprecedented”! We were able to start the process of bringing together our teams ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. For self-service data preparation, Tableau Prep is relatively easy to use—as long as you know how to clean and organize your datasets. Carl Allchin, from The Information Lab in London, gets you up to speed on Tableau Prep through a series of practical lessons that include methods for preparing, cleaning, automating, organizing, and outputting your datasets.Based on Allchin’s popular blog, Preppin’ Data, this practical guide takes you step-by-step through Tableau Prep’s fundamentals. Self-service data preparation reduces the time it takes to complete data projects and improves the quality of your ... Read More