Category: Tableau

Feed: What's New. Author: Andy Cotgreave. My project tracker: mobile and desktop. This year, I have a goal to walk or run 1000 miles. It’s part of the #Walk1000Miles community, run by Country Walking magazine. And of course, I wanted to track my progress with Strava and Tableau. [Before we continue, a quick note on distance units. As a proud European, I measure my exercise in kilometers, so that’s why everything’s calibrated to the number 1609 km, the metric equivalent of 1000 miles. It might not be a round number, but 1609 is a prime number, so it’s inherently a ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Jakob Mund. As a Tableau Server administrator, you have full control over how encryption can be used by configuring it at a per-site level. This allows you to align your encryption needs with how Tableau is used at your organization. For each site, you can choose between disabling, enabling, or enforcing encryption. To do this, go to Settings > General (or Settings > Manage all sites > Settings), and choose the encryption mode that fits best: Enforced mode If encryption is set to Enforced mode, all extracts published to the site are automatically encrypted by Tableau ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Keely O'Neill. Every single thing that happens at TC is curated down to the tiniest detail and meant to inspire you—including the fun stuff. If you've never attended TC, get ready: there is a lot of fun stuff. At TC19, look out for photo and gif booths, games, morning workouts, and more. We’re also known for our surprise moments from parades to flash mobs to line dancing and food trucks. You have to be there in Vegas this November to see what we have planned for you. Who doesn’t love a good data pun? We’re obsessed, ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Sean Miller. Spotify’s “This Is” playlists: the ultimate song analysis for 50 mainstream artists by James Le Unsurprisingly, the Tableau community is not the only analytics community interested in music data. The Medium channel Towards Data Science currently has well over 150 different articles regarding music and analytics. This article by James Le dives into an analysis using the Spotify API. James analyzed song attributes for several mainstream performers to see how they compare to each other. I like how he used clustering to group these performers into groups and then analyzed each group. The Data ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ben Moss. 13 August, 2019 | Ben Moss Embedding Templates into Tableau Desktop This blog was originally posted on my personal blog in 2017, however this post will contain small changes given updates to the Tableau Desktop product since the post was first published. Dashboard templates and examples can be a hugely impactful method to successfully embedding Tableau into a business. They allow users to forget about one of the more tedious Tableau tasks (formatting), and allow them to get their analysis in-front of stakeholders, in a presentable manner, quickly. From an audience/consumer perspective, a ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Robbin Vernooij. 9 August, 2019 NHS A&E Geospatial Data A quick blog post containing spatial data (A&E Provider Locations, including NHS Region, LSOA and UK Ward descriptions) – Click here to jump to the download link (Tableau) As part of a bigger project, I’ve been working on A&E data from the NHS. This data is publicly available and comes with a Provider Description and Provider Code. However, there are is no spatial available for the providers. I set out to collect the location data of the providers to enforce the data and managed to collect ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Mike Cisneros, Lilach Manheim. One of the four goals that we set for every piece we create is retention—to have your work easily recalled by an audience. It’s perhaps the hardest to measure, at least holistically. By definition you can’t get a lot of instant feedback on how well people remember what you created. Nevertheless, we do know a little bit about what elements make a visualization memorable, thanks to researchers like Michelle Borkin, whose work in data viz research provides some guidance on how this looks in practice. Best practices vs. real-world research What do ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Bona Wang. 9 August, 2019 | Bona Wang Upgrading Tableau Server on Linux This week, my colleague was building a dashboard and published it to one of our servers, however the server was on an older version of Tableau, so some of the features were missing. I was then swiftly challenged to try and go learn how to upgrade Tableau Server so we could then upgrade it. Since I had never upgraded, or even installed a server before I thought it would be a good idea to set up a test environment in which I ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Craig Bloodworth. 8 August, 2019 | Craig Bloodworth Extracting before you can say Comma Separated Variable We’ve all felt it before. The moment when somebody tells you they’ve got an amazing dataset. It ticks all the data-viz enthusiast’s boxes, it’s interesting, the potential stories are coming to you with every thought and it’s BIG data! So you follow their link only to find you’re downloading a file ending .csv CSV!? Seriously! This is how we transfer data in 2019…as TEXT! And don’t think just cause you’ve zipped & compressed it you’re fooling anyone. The distributor ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Jen Wong. After you have your extension running, it is important to ensure it has great usability. User experience is important in making sure your extension is well adopted and that the user has an easy time learning to use it. This will enhance the value of your extension, and have people coming back to use it again and again. You can use these considerations as a checklist: Have simple controls and user interface (UI) patterns. The content in your extension should clearly indicate to the user how to interact with it. For example, dialogues should ... Read More