Category: Tableau

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ben Moss. 12 June, 2018 | Ben Moss #Inspire18 The Uncoventional Convention In early June Alteryx hosted their annual US conference, Inspire. This year the ‘unconventional’ convention was held in Anahiem, and came with 2 days of platform training and 2 days of keynotes and tech talks, all designed to help their users understand the Alteyrx product suite with greater depth. The Doors opened at 7:30am, and I mean literally, the doors opened the conference. The opening keynote consisted of Alteryx CEO, Dean Stoecker, stating his belief that Alteryx want to become an end to ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Hannah Blacksmith. Image above does not depict real-world data Editor's note: Honeywell is a Fortune 100 and American multinational conglomerate that produces commercial and consumer products, engineering services and aerospace systems for diverse customers. They've used Tableau for more than two years to drive insightful analytics and a self-service reporting culture across the business. With partnership and Tableau adoption by finance, they’re experiencing greater productivity, seeing stronger financial performance with visibility into areas like inventory management, and reporting time has significantly reduced. We invited Senior Finance Director Joseph Majewski to share perspective about how Honeywell uses ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Marissa Michelotti. We are working hard to get Tableau 2018.2 out the door, but first we need your input! We love to hear early feedback to catch any issues and to ensure the highest quality for these new features. The features included in beta and in the final version of Tableau 2018.2 may change over time as we complete beta testing. Join the Tableau pre-release community to: Participate in alpha and beta programs for early access to new features, versions, and products. Engage directly with the Tableau development team through user research, product discussions, and feedback ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ravi Mistry. 14 May, 2018 | Ravi Mistry Consultant’s Diary – Learning Tableau Server Part I Over the last year, I’ve thrown myself at Tableau Server. The Server aspect of Tableau was one which I hadn’t delved into during my time as part of the Data School. After completing both my Server Qualified Associate, and my Certified Professional, as well as completing a host of Tableau Server engagements, I thought I’d begin a blog series about the things I learned along the way. Tableau Server isn’t as scary as you think. The Tableau Server application ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Hannah Blacksmith. Profiles are extremely powerful in helping you understand the distribution of values in a particular column or field. For our Tableau Prep profile pane, we created around 50 prototypes—five variations in code—before we landed on the product as it is today. The utility of the profile pane is simple, helping you see the number of records for each unique value in a field and allowing you to easily spot outliers within massive amounts of data. In the process, we asked a lot of questions to clarify the utility: How do I see the shape ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ravi Mistry. 8 May, 2018 | Ravi Mistry Consultant’s Diary – Calculated Field Pro-tips 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. Using Tableau almost everyday means you pick up a few shortcuts. Here’s some of my favourites when it comes to calculated fields. Between placements during my time in the Data School, I sat in on some training. Between ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Hannah Blacksmith. Editor’s note: Today’s post comes from Joshua Milligan, Tableau Zen Master, Principal Consultant at Teknion Data Solutions, and author of the VizPainter blog. Joshua participated in the pre-release program for Tableau Prep (previously known as Project Maestro). I started my career at Teknion Data Solutions as a software developer. After a few years, I transitioned to Business Intelligence doing data modeling and ETL work. I liked working with data, but I found much of the process of building out ETL packages to be fairly tedious and time-consuming. And testing could be a nightmare! After ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Hannah Blacksmith. My day consists of cramming 10 hours of work into an eight-hour day. If I weren’t using Tableau, I'd cram 20 hours into an eight-hour day. I’d like to highlight some critical functions of Tableau that benefit me and can benefit you. Live data connections Your first reaction may be: How can I connect live to company data? A key Tableau feature is data source connections, which don't require coding. You can connect to most databases, if you have the right permissions (like in the image below). With a live connection to your CRM, ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Phillip Lowe. 30 April, 2018 | Phillip Lowe Data Scaffolding in Tableau Prep I previously wrote a blog explaining how to create a data scaffold using Alteryx. Please review that blog for a more detailed explanation of what a scaffold data set is and why you may need to use this technique. This diagram from that blog shows one particular use case, where filtering the data may remove certain rows from the data that are required for a complete visualisation: I previously explained how to create a scaffold data from superstore data using the Append ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Pablo Saenz de Tejada. 18 April, 2018 | Pablo Sáenz de Tejada Tableau Prep 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 Tableau Prep (aka Project Maestro), Tableau’s new 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 ... Read More