Category: Tableau

Feed: What's New. Author: Andrew Grinaker. It’s our privilege to announce the 2021 Tableau Zen Masters. We’ve selected 14 new community leaders who represent the tenets of the Zen program: teacher, master, and collaborator. Following a decision to invite all 2020 Zen Masters to return for another year as we addressed the needs of our community, these new leaders join the existing 29 for Tableau’s largest, most regionally and linguistically diverse group to date! When we come together as a community, we’re able to showcase the best of what we can be, and the Tableau Zen Master program illustrates this at ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Ana Crisan. Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the Tableau Engineering Blog. Data science has exploded over the past decade, changing the way that we conduct business and prepare the next generation of young people for the jobs of the future. But this rapid growth was coupled with a still evolving understanding of data science work, which has led to a lot of ambiguity toward how we can use data science to derive actionable insights from our piles of data. Having had my own career shaped by the growth of data science, I wanted to dig ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Paul Houghton. 24 February, 2021 Alteryx Server in the Cloud Deploying your infrastructure into the Cloud, of whatever provider you want, gives you a lot of flexibility in the resources you apply and what you can achieve. It allows for simple configuration changes depending on who you want to have access. The challenge is that if you are not careful in your configuration, you can expose your servers and data creating a significant problem. One way to manage this exposure issue is to apply a load balancer to your instance, which is great but Alteryx ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Kristin Adderson. Parent volunteer helps revamp COVID-19 dashboard JMU had one of lowest totals of infected students among Virginia’s big publics SUMMARY: Lee Feinberg, a data visualization consultant and proud JMU parent, volunteered to help the university improve its COVID-19 dashboard, which has since become a model in higher education for keeping community members informed. By Khalil Garriott (’04) Ahead of the first day of Fall 2020 classes—and to ensure transparent access to information about the prevalence of COVID-19 in the James Madison University community—the university published a COVID-19 dashboard, which includes a number of data ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Andrew Grinaker. Data is a powerful tool to reveal insights, ignite conversations, and drive change—whether you’re looking to solve business problems or address injustices in your community. Last year, Tableau launched the Racial Justice Data Initiative (RJDI), committing to a new three-year, $12 million expansion of equity work done by the Tableau Foundation and its network of partners. We’ve been working with our partners and the Tableau Community to expand conversations and community projects to address the intersectional diversity—the intersection of multiple identities—of community members. To help people use data and analytics for greater diversity, inclusion, ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Francois Ajenstat. We are blown away every day by the passion, creativity, dedication, and support of the unparalleled Tableau Community. Our customers often tell us, “the Tableau Community will not let you fail.” You've grown to more than a million data rockstars all over the world, connecting to help accelerate learning, answer questions, and build a network that inspires and supports one another to reach personal and professional data goals. We believe this community is so successful because it’s made of all kinds of people—not just technical users, but bloggers, analysts, teachers, and people just like ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Channing Nesbitt. Data is a critical tool in the fight against racism and for justice and equity in cities, towns, and rural communities across the United States. It is a societal problem, one that every individual and institution has a role to play in dismantling. That’s why today, the Tableau Foundation is launching the Racial Equity Data Hub as a first step toward democratizing more of the types of data that can empower grassroots organizations in the movement towards equity and justice in their own communities. Since its founding in 2014, the Tableau Foundation has worked ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ben Moss. 15 February, 2021 Trigger an Alteryx workflow/app to run upon loading data to S3 Note: The python scripts and libraries shown in this blog post were deployed using Python 3.8. A year or so ago I published a blog series where I looked at how we can use Alteryx to create Lego images from someone’s portrait. I recently went back to this project to look at how I could automatically trigger this Alteryx workflow to run when an image is loaded to Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3. In this blog, we’re going to ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Mark Bradbourne. Hello, DataFam! Welcome to my first edition of Best of the Tableau Web (BOTW), where I’ll recap highlights from last month. For me, the Tableau Community has been a treasure trove of content that’s both highly inspirational and technically deep. In fact, the first piece of Tableau content that I found online in 2012 was the first edition of BOTW. That blog post led me to the community forums, and the rest is history. I’m now part of Tableau (having joined in 2019) and recently created Real World Fake Data (RWFD) to scratch an ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Andy Cotgreave. Happy New Year! Welcome to another year of reviewing the Best of the Tableau Web (BOTW). Can you believe we’re entering the 10th year of this blog series? I personally want to thank every person who shared a tip, detailed technique, analytics that inspired them, or some wacky piece of data art. The Tableau ecosystem has significantly grown in the last decade, and I still enjoy seeing what new ideas are  created every month, plus get excited thinking about what may come in the future.  Kicking off 2021, there are some changes and I’m ... Read More