Category: Tableau

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ravi Mistry. 17 April, 2019 | Ravi Mistry Digging into Unions in Tableau A question we had internally recently was whether Tableau’s union function was by position or by field name. The ability to Union data together was brand new in Tableau Desktop 9.3 A union is where you would add additional rows by effectively putting two data tables on top of one another. Tableau’s help guide has a nice way of visualising this. The best way to find out how Tableau was doing this by default was to test it using our good friend and ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Sean Li, Ann Ho. The fully redesigned navigation pane is now on the left side of the page with more options for your browsing needs. It can be easily collapsed and is responsive to screen sizes so you’ll get optimal space for browsing, even on your tablet or mobile devices. Make the navigation your own by customizing it! As with previous versions, you can replace the Tableau logo with a custom image but now you can also add a different photo for the collapsed navigation so it looks better in the reduced space. After browsing and ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Patrick King, Britt Staniar. With Tableau Desktop versions 2019.1 and later, you can connect directly to Google Ads, extract necessary fields for a time frame, and begin analysis within minutes. In Tableau, the possibilities for analysis paths are endless, but for the sake of this blog post, I share our most popular Google Ads dashboard to give you a starting point. This dashboard gives our digital media team an understanding of the key information about their Google Ad performance in one place. If you’re familiar with Tableau, feel free to download, replace the data source, and ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Davide Guatta. To implement TabPy, assuming that both Python and TabPy are already installed, you need to run three steps: Prepare a draft Tableau dashboard Create calculation routines backend in Python Design the Tableau frontend leveraging it To walk you through the three steps, I designed a use case around complexity reduction through product portfolio optimization. The Use Case: Complexity Reduction The subject of the optimization is a B2B retailer that experienced growth mainly through mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Because of this inorganic growth, the retailer faces a great deal of complexity, operating on several markets ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Andy Cotgreave. Hello and welcome to Best of the Tableau Web. It’s a big list this month for two reasons: first of all, we skipped a month. Second, lots of you responded to our call for new blogs to follow last month. Thank you to everyone who added their blog to the list. I’ve updated the list of blogs I’m following. Keep the ideas coming. Your posts make my commute more fun! A post that caught my eye from the new blogs was by Marc Reid, who’s been playing with the Tableau 2019.2 beta. A new ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ravi Mistry. 12 April, 2019 | Ravi Mistry Thinking about Ask Data Tableau 2019.1 brought some killer features to the table, and amongst these was a natural language capability called Ask Data. This blog will focus on the applications of the tool, and how it could change your business. The area of natural language processing has grown over the past decade, and Tableau made their move by acquiring ClearGraph in 2017. The startup’s focus was to allow users the ability to analyse data using natural language. Tableau’s ethos has very much been on lowering the boundaries to allow people to “see and understand their data”, and Ask Data seems to lower that boundary further. Ask Data allows users to type in natural questions such as “How much did we sell last ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Laine Caruzca. 12 April, 2019 | Laine Caruzca Why is learning something new so hard? Learning Tableau In my first placement, one of the key areas of my role was training and driving engagement at the company. People who attended the training sessions were surprised at how easy Tableau was to navigate once you understood how Tableau organised your data and where you needed to drag/put it. However, I noticed that some became complacent and used lack of time as a justification for not practising. On the other hand, there were some people who kept ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Chris Love. 11 April, 2019 Iron Viz – Agriculture Feeder: 10 potential data stories to get you started Tableau announced their Iron Viz feeder event this week, and with the new competition came a twist – everyone gets the same data! At The Information Lab we love Iron Viz, and love the fact this new rule will help level the playing field – ensuring as many people as possible can dig into the data and enter something. In the post below Zen Master Chris Love will walk through his workflow in Tableau Prep to prepare ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Alexander Fridriksson. 10 April, 2019 | Alex Fridriksson Sentiment Analysis Using Python in Tableau with TabPy Tableau is already an amazingly powerful tool and TabPy makes it even more powerful by allowing you to run Python scripts. There are many uses cases for using Python in Tableau, in this post we’ll go over how to do sentiment analysis. What is sentiment analysis? Its a form of natural language processing (NLP) which tries to determine the emotion conveyed in text. Simply explained, most sentiment analysis works by comparing each individual word in a given text to ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Soha Elghany. 9 April, 2019 | Soha Elghany A quick guide to In-DB tools Part 1 In Alteryx we have In-Database tools. This allows users to connect directly to your database. The aim of this is that it lets you do ETL and calculations in the source system without moving the data out of it. The In-DB tools let users visually build their SQL query, which is processed in the database. Therefore, when writing your formula or filter the data in the In-DB tools only the SQL syntax will work and not Alteryx-specific functions. How ... Read More