Category: Tableau

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ravi Mistry. 21 February, 2019 | Ravi Mistry Consultant’s Diary: Nested LoD for Ranking I’m going to try and share some of the techniques and methods I use as a consultant. Using Tableau & Alteryx daily means that I’ve found I take small techniques, tips & tricks for granted. Hopefully this will be useful for you all. Table calculations can be mysterious. When first learning about table calculations, it may be a tricky subject to wrap your head around. One of the most used table calculation is the RANK() function. Rank is a function which comes in many flavours… ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Jason Forrest. This post by Jason Forrest, Data Visualization Designer at McKinsey & Company, is part of Tableau’s #VisualizeDiversity series celebrating Black History Month. For further reading, check out this post from earlier this month with Tableau Foundation’s newest partners, PolicyLink, on their work with the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color (ABMoC), a grassroots network of over 200 organizations and community leaders across nine states. W.E.B. Du Bois is predominantly known as a scholar, activist, and author, but he was also a data visualization innovator. Born in 1868, Du Bois was the first African-American ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Robert Dolan. Achieving and demonstrating success for these priorities requires moving from data collection to data insight by: Establishing baseline performance standards Determining what drives outcomes Evaluating impacts of course correction efforts (re: programs, services, policy shifts) and actions correlating with the principles of modern business analytics, below. Often this is described as a journey from descriptive and diagnostic analytics to predictive and prescriptive analytics. Gartner’s IT Glossary defines these types of analytics as follows: Descriptive Analytics is the examination of data or content, usually manually performed, to answer the question “What happened?” (or, “What is ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: JoAnn Peach. We’re excited to host all our developer community at each hack. We’ll make sure you’re fed, fueled, have access to our engineering team - and get some awesome “hack packs” as gifts to boot! What do you get for spending time having fun, building your hack idea? A first-time-ever, custom Seattle hack trophy. (It’s cool, we promise. Don’t worry, we’ll have custom trophies for other cities as well.) And the winning hack team will receive complimentary tickets to this year’s Tableau Conference in Las Vegas! You read that right. You and your crew—or just ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Adi McCrea. 18 February, 2019 | Adi McCrea We Need to Talk About Density Marks Or: how knowledge is power when it is shared Act 1: on dealing with “busy” data On inspecting a dataset it becomes clear that the insight might be lost in how tightly packed together the data points are. It becomes difficult to separate the signal from the noise. Take this example – rat sightings in New York City. Source: NYC Open Data Some form of aggregation could help in which the number of data points is reduced. Or a statistical ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ravi Mistry. 15 February, 2019 | Ravi Mistry Project Griffon: Datasource & Workbook 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. Ask and ye shall receive! The first Project Griffon blog of 2019 comes via a request from Sam Parsons. Sam’s ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Adriana Gil Miner. As the standard language of analytics for business users and analytics professionals, Tableau is one of the fastest-growing technical job skills in today's job market. And Tableau helps people learn and develop data skills fast. When people explore data in an easy, iterative way that provides immediate feedback, users feel more connected to their data, which leads to deeper understanding and better decisions. Tableau’s unique user experience paired with our industry-leading education and user enablement resources are proven to help people develop skills, unlock curiosity, and unleash their creativity using data—helping our customers ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Joe Macari. 14 February, 2019 | Joe Macari Finding the latest year in multiple categories Here is my problem: I have a number of countries and some sporadic data over the years. My challenge is to isolate the latest data point as shown below. The first thing I want to do is bring in my measure, in this case ‘Percentage’, to the filters shelf. It doesn’t really matter how this filter is configured as we are about to change it. The next step is to turn this from a green, continuous filter to a blue, ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Robin Kennedy. 14 February, 2019 | Robin Kennedy Tableau releases the Data Management Add-on for Tableau Server In February 2019 Tableau released Tableau Server version 2019.1. This version now gives the option for Prep users to be able to schedule flows using the hotly anticipated ‘Tableau Conductor’. In this post we examine what capabilities this brings, and what you need for your organisation to enable it in your Tableau environment. Data Management Add-on Managing a flow using Tableau Prep Conductor The first thing to note is that Tableau Conductor, which gives scheduling capabilities for ‘Flows’ ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ben Moss. 14 February, 2019 | Ben Moss Documentation Best Practices with Alteryx Great documentation is a hugely important asset in any environment where your work is consumed/used by others; heck, it’s even good to jog our own minds!In this blog I want to outline an array of methods we use to document our Alteryx workflows/macros/apps that we create and publish within our internal environment. On a high level, what the hell does your workflow do? Start with a title, that is descriptive; but keep it as short and succinct as possible.Some examples from our ... Read More