Category: Tableau

Feed: What's New. Author: Varnit Grewal. Tableau users are passionate about exploring data and masterfully designing visualizations, but getting started isn’t always as easy as it should be. With admin-controlled projects and sites filled with outdated or unfinished content, finding the content you need and a place to save your work in progress can be a challenge. That’s all about to change with Personal Space—a private location to save or edit when working in your Tableau site! With Personal Space automatically turned on for all sites in Tableau 2021.3, users with an Explorer or Creator license will finally have their ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Francois Ajenstat. Data is no longer just a competitive advantage. It is critical to the health—and often the survival—of an organization. Fostering a Data Culture equips every individual in your organization with the insights they need to tackle your most complex business challenges. In this all-digital, work-from-anywhere world, data needs to be more accessible, more collaborative, proactive, and available anywhere. Using data effectively means being able to seamlessly access insights right where you work.  Earlier this year, we introduced Tableau for Slack to put data in the flow of work—and at the center of every conversation ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Katharine Bierce. Salesforce.org wanted to understand how higher education is evolving around the world. Together with Ipsos and the Chronicle of Higher Education, Salesforce.org surveyed more than 2,000 students and staff across 10 countries to better understand their needs amidst the tumult of the pandemic. The second edition of the Connected Student Report highlights what’s top of mind for students—and how staff and higher education institutions can foster student success.  Here are our top five takeaways for higher education institutions across disciplines, including data literacy. Data skills educators, dig into the analytics with our Trends in ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Forbes BrandVoice. Editor's note: This article originally appeared in Forbes, by Jennifer Day, Vice President, Customer Strategy and Programs, Tableau  Many businesses recently made strategic moves to build or enhance their data cultures, enabling people to make better, faster decisions as they faced unprecedented challenges. This increased pace of change forced urgent prioritization and a higher rate of decision-making as data became critical to business survival during the pandemic.  In hindsight, business leaders experienced disruptions to operations like customer service, sales, finance, the supply chain, and more. And data-driven decision making, defined as taking action and ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Kate Grinevskaja. Fully realizing your data-driven vision is closer than you think. The Tableau 2021.3 release enhances Tableau Data Management features to provide a trusted environment to prepare, analyze, engage, interact, and collaborate with data. So what’s new? Automate your Prep flows in a defined sequence, with automatic data quality warnings for any failed runs Enable data quality warnings for email subscriptions to dashboards Inherited descriptions for columns are now available in web authoring Generate missing numeric or date field rows in a new Prep step Let’s take a closer look at each of these new ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Britt Staniar. Tableau Ambassadors evangelize our brand, our products, and our community. The ambassador program recognizes leaders who share our passion for helping people see and understand data—and make the Tableau Community a more vibrant and inclusive place for all. Please join us in giving the 2021 Tableau Ambassadors a great big DataFam welcome! We can’t wait to see how this group makes the community a better place. Learn more about the ambassadors by checking out their bios and following them on Twitter. Keep reading for a breakdown of the new ambassador class in the best ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Harry Osborne. 10 September, 2021 Dynamic and customisable titles in Tableau and Power BI Neither Tableau nor Power BI make it particularly easy for you to create dynamic titles for charts, particularly when changing the default options that appear if you were to select all of the values possible (or none at all). Numerically, these are slightly easier (essentially using the ZN function to turn any nulls to 0s, and then formatting differently), but strings are a different matter entirely.  Tableau Imagine in Tableau you have a simple bar chart showing the sum of Sales ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Andy Cotgreave. I imagine you’re familiar with this line of questioning: ”How satisfied are you with XYZ?” and “How likely are you to recommend XYZ to others?” or “How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements?” Here these questions are rhetorical, but you’ve likely all seen and responded to similar survey questions as you’ve traversed the web. Maybe you’ve even worked with the resulting datasets from those surveys. If so, you may have also ended up scratching your head because although it feels like survey data should be easy to use, it’s harder ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Emily Chen. The newest release of Tableau is here! Tableau 2021.3 includes the latest capabilities to bring efficiency to your workflows and organization at scale. Upgrade now to take advantage of these new innovations and bring the full power of the Tableau Platform across your business. Let’s look at some of the exciting features in the Tableau 2021.3 release: Get Tableau notifications directly in Slack for data-driven alerts, @mentions in comments, and sharing activity to stay on top of your data, from anywhere. Better prep and manage your data with new improvements to Data Management, including ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Loreal Lynch. As more businesses accelerate digital transformation initiatives, leaders are gaining a better understanding of the value of data, and want to scale analytics across their organization. However, on the road to becoming a data-driven organization, choosing an enterprise platform often presents leaders with compromises: Strong governance or agile, self-service? Deep, powerful capabilities or approachable features for broader use cases? A platform that’s readily scalable or cost-effective? You shouldn’t have to consider trade-offs in order to enable everyone in your organization to make better decisions, faster. And you shouldn’t have to stockpile point solutions to address ... Read More