Category: Tableau

Feed: What's New. Author: Erin Gengo, Robert Bloom. As we reimagined data management across all of Tableau, we identified five pillars for the  migration process framework that dovetailed well with our Snowflake selection criteria, and would thereby increase trust and confidence in the data that everyone uses. These pillars are: staffing, governance, authentication, communication, and documentation.  We’ll first discuss staffing, governance, and authentication in this post, highlighting some key lessons learned, unexpected issues with responses, and recommendations to consider when migrating and tackling data sets—large or small, simple or complex. Staffing We don’t want to sugar-coat the complex undertaking of ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Sarah Wachter. We were excited to release Predictive Modeling Functions in 2020.3, empowering Tableau users with predictive statistical functions accessible from the native Tableau table calculation interface. We put powerful predictive analytics right into the hands of business users, keeping them in the flow of working with their data. Users can quickly build statistical models and iterate based on the prediction quality, predict values for missing data, and understand relationships within their data.  However, we knew that a significant use case was still challenging. Surprising exactly no one, a key use case for predictive modeling is ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Steve Schwartz. Tableau: As you look back on the polling data you gathered in the lead-up to the election, what is your big-picture takeaway about what your data revealed? Wronski: One thing that we really came to appreciate was the value of having the 50-state Candidate Preference map to visualize our data. We actually feel that we did well in terms of directionally calling the states correctly. We were dead-on in a lot of cases, and the places where we were off, they were oftentimes less than the degree to which other pollsters were off. And ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Tony Hammond. Data literacy is a priority for businesses that are data-driven, increasing competitiveness Even as some respondents recognise data’s benefits, nearly 75 percent of the data-driven companies across all four markets still see a need to continue (or increase) spending on data skills training and development in the future. “We started building data skills across the business in 2013, and the pandemic has definitely seen us benefit from these capabilities,” explained Dirk Holback, Corporate Senior Vice President and CSCO Laundry and Home Care at Henkel, one of the world’s leading chemical and consumer goods companies ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Andy Cotgreave. Editor’s note: A version of this blog post originally appeared in Nightingale, a publication by the Data Visualization Society. How was US general election night for you? For me, it was underwhelming.  That emotion had nothing to do with the political story, but everything to do with the data storytelling of US TV networks. My goal on election night was to enjoy and comment on the way they told data stories, which you can find on Twitter under #ElectionViz. I came away disappointed. The gulf between the charts we find on news websites and ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: ryan.lowers. 18 November, 2020 | Ryan Lowers Creating a Family Tree in Tableau In this blog I’m going to provide a detailed guide about how I created an interactive family tree using Tableau. Though a base level of familiarity with the tool will certainly make things easier, my aim is to make this guide as easy as possible to follow so that anyone could pick this up and build their own family tree. I will be including steps on how to format the data all the way through to building out the visualisation. My motivation ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Shweta Jindal, Jim Cox. Current connected experience Up until now, when you launch a favorite view, the preview loads quickly with limited interactivity, and displays a ‘Go Live’ button.  Tapping ‘Go Live’ initiates a server request, and you’ll see a spinner while the view is calculated. You will be switched to the view once it is rendered. We thought this flow would work well for the majority of cases. The preview loads quickly and with sufficient interactivity—you can clearly see the data (pan, zoom, and scroll), tap any mark to see a tooltip, and see highlighted ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: ruth.amarteifio. 13 November, 2020 | Ruth Amarteifio 10 Essential Questions To Ask For A Seamless Tableau Project Before starting your Tableau project, you must know the key answers and insights you are trying to obtain from the data, the roles and responsibilities of users involved, and how you are going to interact with your data. Decision making in the right order can save a lot of time later by preventing myriad setbacks stemming from poor planning or communication. These 10 questions cover the main areas you need to consider when planning your project. See the ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Forbes BrandVoice. Data success comes more easily if senior leaders make it a priority and show in their own work how analytics should be used to drive business outcomes. 1. Share and leverage the knowledge of others One of the obstacles to effective collaboration around data is grading yourself against your peers. In other fields, it’s easy to rate and clone processes that lead to low manufacturing defect rates or efficient supply chain execution. Data is more slippery, and so the sources and skill sets that serve one team or company best might not work the ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Ann Ho. Getting started with collections Once collections are enabled for your Tableau Online site, you’ll see a new option in the left navigation for collections. Here, you’ll find all the collections you have access to—the ones you own and the ones in your site that have been made public. You can also see the collections you own on a tab in My Content. As long as you’re a licensed user on a site, you can create a collection! Click the New Collection button at the top of the collections page to create your collection and ... Read More