Category: Tableau

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Chris Love. 19 January, 2020 Creating UpSet Plots in Tableau Authored by Chris Love. Feel free to chat on Twitter @chrisluv. Looking through #MakeoverMonday I noticed a couple of Venn Diagrams this week. Venn diagrams are very popular, and audiences will be familiar with them, but are difficult to build in Tableau. What is more there are some great alternatives – especially when trying to build plots with more than 3 combination states. UpSet Plots UpSet plots are a great alternative to a Venn. While they may require some explaining to an audience they can ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Charles Schaefer. Expanding your definition of business value is important to capture ROI that cost-based models don’t measure. But there is also value that can’t be captured effectively in any model—value that springs more serendipitously from modern analytics programs. In fact, these “business moments” are impossible to plan for, yet organizations increase their chances of encountering them when more people with deep, functional expertise go looking for insights. A knowledge worker might be chasing one business question, but discover a valuable insight by pivoting to another. In the case of Southwest Airlines, analysts discovered opportunities to ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Anthony Young. The organizations I support have diverse missions and thousands of employees, and in every hands-on event that I do, I always ask folks if they use data daily to do their job. Without fail, nearly everyone says “of course I do!” Oddly though, when I ask leaders how many of their people need access to data analytics, there’s a marked gap between the number they give, and the actual number it should be. I don’t know if this was due to lack of understanding, or a perceived lack of budget, but I identified a ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Youssef Shoukry. Happy New Year from the Tableau Prep team! Last year, we released 11 versions of Tableau Prep Builder and we’re not slowing down. We’re kickstarting 2020 with a new version of Tableau Prep Builder that streamlines cleaning operations. Now you can add cleaning operations faster by pausing data updates while adding new steps. This allows you to add operations in bulk, before resuming the data updates, to see the collective results of those new steps. We also listened to your feedback, and we are introducing a new mode that disables capabilities in Tableau Prep ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Conor Knowles, Nolan Necoechea. MercadoLibre offers a feature that allows customers to use QR codes to pay for things in physical stores. The Business Intelligence team created the primary Tableau dashboards for the initiative with a handful of certified queries available in Alation. After that, the business analysts were able to self-serve discovery and analysis—including using the certified queries to generate new analyses. Business analysts could now analyze which markets and marketing activities lead to higher QR code adoption, without having to depend on the BI team.With that freedom, of course, comes the fear that analysts ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Sonali Batra. Together, what we came up with is a plan for helping OpASHA’s community health workers detect more patients by making it easier to identify individuals infected with tuberculosis. Since the disease is spread through air droplets, the chances of finding a TB patient would be higher in the houses adjacent to the houses of current TB patients. Those who carry the disease for a longer amount of time are also likely to have infected more people around them. We took all these factors into account while designing a strategy for the CHWs to look ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Joe Beaven. 9 January, 2020 One-year-on Part IV: US Housing Affordability Hi everyone, I am writing a series of blogs where I redesign my very first Tableau Public visualisations. I have already remade my first three – if you’re interested, have a look at my recap blogs on the data school blog (https://bit.ly/39PYr0B). Now that I have finished my training I am aiming to keep up this series on The Information Lab blog. Firstly, I want to recap my latest reviz project (https://bit.ly/2tK5RBX), I took my my initial viz… And built this… Mainly I’ve focused ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Anthony Young. Here in Texas, we have an interesting saying “they’re all hat and no cattle” which loosely translates to “You might look like a rancher with the fancy truck and shiny belt buckle, but take those away, and there’s simply nothing there.” Think style without substance, or appearance absent of value. Once you get past the surface, there’s no meat on the bone. Let’s translate this to the world of data, reporting (my least favorite word), and analytics in government. Imagine a state government agency that is like every single other one across America. The ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Allen Hillery. Editor's note: A version of this post originally appeared on Nightingale, a publication by the Data Visualization Society. Cities are defined by the place, the people, and how they makes us feel. New York City is known as the “City that never sleeps,” the land of opportunity where you have to hustle to make your dreams come true. I have the privilege of calling this concrete jungle home. That means my lens for this city is dipped in nostalgia as I walk through midtown and point out all of the office buildings I worked ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Nick Jastrzebski. 3 January, 2020 | Nick Jastrzebski RegEx – Extracting the first N words I was recently asked by a colleague for some help with a RegEx expression for extracting the first N number of words from a block of text. In this blog, I’ll explain how to create an expression for this task & how to set it up in both Alteryx and Tableau. THE EXPRESSION First we need to create a regular expression to match the first 150 words. Since we want to take the words at the start, we can use ... Read More