Category: Tableau

Feed: What's New. Author: Vanya Tucherov. R is a powerful statistical language that helps people working with data uncover rich insights. With R integration in Tableau, you can run and leverage sophisticated functions within your Tableau workbooks. This includes access to a rich collection of statistical analysis, models, and data mining libraries for advanced analytics. However, to surface insights that you’ve discovered with R in Tableau, we understand that you need to securely access your R instance. In the latest Tableau release (2018.3), we’re thrilled to announce support for TLS/SSL-secured connections to Rserve. You may be used to an External ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Bethany Lyons. Interaction with a visualisation is often equated with filtering, but filtering is just one type of response to user selections. Sometimes you may want to: Find all items that are related to a selection, instead of keeping only the items that exactly match Keep items that meet any of the selection criteria instead of all of the selection criteria Sort, align, group, or drill down on a selection while retaining the context of the remaining data Hide data instead of filtering so that you can use it in calculations While filters only keep data ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Kitty Chou. Starting with the Tableau 2019.2 release in the second quarter of 2019, we are updating our minimum machine specifications to deploy a Tableau Server trial. For Tableau Server versions 2019.2 and beyond, you will need a 4-core processor and 16 GB of RAM. This is to support a better experience with enterprise features that we’ve added in recent releases. We’ve outlined these changes below. Note that our production Tableau Server min spec remains unchanged. Current Trial Min Spec Updated Trial Min Spec Production Min Spec (unchanged) Machine Cores (Physical or Virtual) 2 cores 4 ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Phil Naranjo. Transparent worksheets open up a lot of exciting possibilities to express your creativity. Here are some other helpful tips to make the most of this feature: Data first. Worksheet transparency enables you to create beautiful, stunning dashboards. However, keep in mind that the subject of your data should always drive the formatting and analytical usefulness and readability should always come first. When choosing background images, ensure that those images aren’t obscuring axes, labels, or marks. For starters, stick with visually simpler background images with long stretches of uniform color like a blue sky, the ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Ruhaab Markas. Using Ask Data, anyone with a question can start typing and instantly get a response. Ask Data is fully embedded into the Tableau Server or Online experience. Simply select a data source and type in a question. No setup is required. Here’s how Ask Data makes it even easier to analyze your data: Easy and powerful analytical capabilities. Analyze your data with a simple statement or question. Rapidly iterate with additional questions by adding follow-up queries or statements. Our semantic models automatically enrich your data for more natural interactions. You can even add synonyms ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Johanna Knapp. On November 15. & 16. 2018, Telekom hosted a women-only hackathon at the hub:raum in Berlin. The event was supported by Udacity, IBM, T-Labs, hub:raum, Telekom Open Spaces and Tableau. Initiated by Kenza Ait Si Abbou Lyadini and organized by 20+ members of the Women@Telekom network, the event welcomed 91 attendants out of a much larger number of applicants—all working or studying in the fields of AI, machine learning, data science, and programming. Participants worked in teams of six, each with the support of a mentor. The groups had the choice to work on ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ravi Mistry. 11 December, 2018 | Ravi Mistry Project Griffon: Workbook Access Frequency With Project Griffon, we want to share examples and started with you – the Tableau Community. The objective here is to share tools which use what you have in front of you to help explain more about what’s going on. Please be sure to read the introduction to Project Griffon, and ensure that you have access to the Tableau Server Repository via the Postgres connection. What’s going on? I need intel! The biggest benefit that the Tableau Server Repository brings is the ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Jamie Gough. 10 December, 2018 | Jamie Gough Drivetime analysis in Tableau using R During our recent back to school week, my cohort was given mini-projects related to Tableau and Alteryx. One of those projects was to create use cases with either the R or Python integration within Tableau. I decided to work around the limitations of the R integration and create a tableau dashboard that can perform drivetime analysis using OSRM. OSRM is a routing service based on Open Street Map (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/osrm/README.html). The final outcome, see above, is a dashboard where the user inputs ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Hannah Blacksmith. The community has spoken. We compiled all of the votes and the winner is clear. The community-sourced 11th trend for 2019 is The demand for better predictive analytics! Predictive capabilities are now built into self-service BI platforms including things like regression and forecasting along with integrations for data science tools like Python, R, and MATLAB to support advanced use cases. Building on the democratization of data skills and data ubiquity in self-service BI, organizations are adopting predictive analytics to support more informed decision making. This democratization links back to our trend around the changing ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ravi Mistry. 20 November, 2018 | Ravi Mistry Project Griffon: Datasources & Connections Audit With Project Griffon, we want to share examples and started with you – the Tableau Community. The objective here is to share tools which use what you have in front of you to help explain more about what’s going on. Please be sure to read the introduction to Project Griffon, and ensure that you have access to the Tableau Server Repository via the Postgres connection. Project Griffon is about sharing the love. The ethos behind much of what we do here ... Read More