Category: Tableau

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

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Marc Reid. 13 August, 2018 | Marc Reid Tableau Set Actions In the upcoming 2018.3 release of Tableau Desktop (currently in beta), there will be two new dashboard Actions: Go to Sheet Change Set Values This blog post takes a look at Set Actions and some of the potential use cases, such as: Proportional brushing Dynamic Viz-in-Tooltips with hierarchical selection Customised highlighting actions Some of the techniques I’ll look at are already possible via filtering and calculations, however, set actions make this easier and provides more control over the end result. Proportional brushing Andy Cotgreave ... 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. Data skills are in demand. And the ability to showcase these skills will help you stand out from the crowd when you’re on the hunt for internships or employment. But how do you start creating a portfolio? Progress only comes with ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: David Sanchez Martin. 7 August, 2018 | David Sánchez Martín Building an Alteryx Python SDK tool (Part II) This is the second post exploring the Alteryx Python SDK extension module. Adding bits of functionality: Using as a template the very basic Alteryx Python SDK tool, I will now start to add some functionality with the objective of understanding how to handle: Multiple columns (fields). Multiple rows (records). Free Text The ultimate goal of this v1 of the tool is to obtain a tool that will have a simple interface allowing the user to select the ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Andre De Vries. 7 August, 2018 | Andre de Vries What’s this new .trex filetype? With the release of Tableau’s latest instalment, version 2018.2, we now have the ability to use extensions in our dashboards. You can download these from the official Tableau Gallery, which was also launched together with 2018.2. I’ve played around with this Extension API since it’s very first alpha release just after the Tableau Conference in Las Vegas last year. And I can tell you, you can do some pretty awesome things with it. The web applications that I built range ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Marissa Michelotti. Matt experienced a variety of work as an intern on the Spotify Product Insights team, from interviewing potential customers and users to exploring and visualizing usage data. A major project he worked on involved analyzing data about how ads on Spotify performed. He presented his analysis in an interactive dashboard and shared the information with clients. Earlier this year, Matt returned to Spotify—now as a full-time Associate Data Scientist on the Product Insights team. “I really like working with data and using it to provide value to businesses,” Matt said. “Tableau has served as ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: David Sanchez Martin. 6 August, 2018 | David Sánchez Martín Dipping my toes into Alteryx Python SDK What I thought it was going to be: Write some code, connect to an input & output, maybe allow for some configuration and, voilà, tool ready. Something similar to the R tools that I’ve seen around. What it actually was like: I started writing some code to get relatively simple stats for an unrelated problem. I tested my python code, and it worked as expected. Once I had the snippet, I went to read the documentation for the ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Hannah Blacksmith. One of the biggest concerns, even for me, with giving everyone access to data, is Shadow IT. Everyone has their own copies of data, they use different terminology for the same dimension or measure, and it becomes an overall data governance nightmare. With Tableau Data Server, that nightmare goes away and you can sleep better at night. At least, I do. Let’s talk about how Tableau Data Server provides data governance, including data quality. Data governance Back to our story from the beginning. How does Tableau Data Server change the conversation knowing now that ... 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. Recruiters spend just 6 seconds reading each job application, so it’s important to make your resume stand out from the crowd. And in a world where data literacy is one of the most in-demand skills in the workplace, your resume should ... Read More