Category: Tableau

Feed: What's New. Author: Neal Myrick. Language about supply chains and purchasing power can sometimes obscure the fact that these decisions can be a matter of life-or-death for people. That urgency has driven WFP’s investments in digital transformation both in terms of the data infrastructure and data culture of the organization. Porcari says what has made responding to COVID-19 possible is not having to start from scratch. “We have had the good fortune and foresight to invest in digital transformation over the last few years, so we have foundational platforms, services and skills that are already very strong. We have ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Andre De Vries. 22 September, 2020 | Andre de Vries NEW! The easiest way to embed Tableau into Salesforce At The Information Lab, we have lots of Tableau users and customers that are interested in integrating the power of their interactive data visualisations with Salesforce. This has always been possible but it needed a little bit of coding wizardry to embed Tableau in a Salesforce page. Therefore this was not accessible for everyone. But this has changed! You can now use the easy to configure drag and drop Lightning Web Component (LWC) that Tableau has ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Geraldine Zanolli. At Tableau, we believe that our customers need analytics in their workflows, and Salesforce customers are no exception. While there are existing ways for our customers to embed Tableau content inside Salesforce, the new Tableau Viz Lightning web component makes it easy to integrate Tableau visualizations into Salesforce in just a few clicks. Today, we are excited to release the Tableau Viz Lightning web component, available now on Salesforce AppExchange. By using it, any Salesforce admin or developer can integrate any Tableau dashboard into a Salesforce Lightning page. You may have already seen the ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Keri Harling. 1. Join Tableau for Students or Tableau for Teaching Program We’ve helped over one million students and instructors find empowerment in Tableau. Students and instructors can receive free licenses and eLearning through our Academic Programs. 2. Schedule your exam It may sound crazy but schedule your exam first. It's counter-intuitive, but setting a deadline for yourself will drive you to study. After you’ve been verified as a student, you will receive a 20% discount off the Tableau Certification Exam. The discount applies automatically during checkout. Your exam will be valid for six months after ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Tracy Rodgers. Data Management solutions have been in the market for 30+ years. However, they’ve always focused on solving data management problems from the perspective of IT. This can lead to data being duplicated, mistrusted, or too locked down. In today’s world, we have more data, in more formats, at different levels (from enterprise to departmental to individual data needs), and in more places than ever before. At the same time, more people are expected to use data to do their jobs effectively and efficiently. This is where we’re seeing a gap. Everyone in an organization ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Eillie Anzilotti. For most school districts, the first step in providing an alternate system of instruction was to assess what students wanted and needed in order to participate. They distributed surveys to households, both on paper and over the phone and web, to find out each student's readiness for online remote learning. Did they have a laptop or other connected device for attending classes? Did they need a Wi-fi hotspot in order to access the internet? Once online, could they successfully connect to the district's learning systems? In addition to technological readiness, surveys were also useful ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ben Moss. 17 September, 2020 | Ben Moss Writing your output, to your input, in Alteryx We recently wrote a blog outlining a method that allows you to take your input source, and write it to the same file as your output. In this post we are going to show you the opposite, how we can write our output data to the same file as our input data, and it’s quite simple! First things first, as Excel is the only output type that supports ‘multiple tables’ in a single file, then this will only work ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ben Moss. 16 September, 2020 | Ben Moss How to Build ‘Break Points’ into your Alteryx Workflows In this post we are going to demonstrate how we can make use of the ‘Message’ tool to create a ‘break point’ within your workflow. When we talk about ‘break points’ we are referring to the idea of completely stopping our workflow from running if a specific condition is not met, simultaneously halting your downstream actions and thus preventing any write operations. In our example we have a scenario where you only want to proceed if there are ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Carl Allchin. 15 September, 2020 Tableau Prep Up & Running by Carl Allchin Buy Now For self-service data preparation, Tableau Prep is relatively easy to use–as long as you know how to clean and organize your datasets. Carl Allchin, from The Information Lab in London, gets you up to speed on Tableau Prep through a series of practical lessons that include methods for preparing, cleaning, automating, organizing, and outputting your datasets. Based on Allchin’s popular blog, Preppin’ Data, this practical guide takes you step-by-step through Tableau Prep’s fundamentals. Self-service data preparation reduces the time it ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ben Moss. 15 September, 2020 | Ben Moss Editing an Existing Workflow on Alteryx Server So you’ve published your first version of a workflow to Alteryx Server, but how exactly can you edit it. There are a couple of ways and in this blog I’m going to outline those different methods and reasons why we might not always use a consistent approach. The easiest way to edit an existing workflow that exists upon Alteryx Server is from within Alteryx Designer. Users can simply go to ‘File’ > ‘Open Workflow’ and then select the appropriate Gallery ... Read More