Category: Tableau

Feed: What's New. Author: Britt Staniar, Tina Ngo. Selling is a team sport and to support success, there are many players contributing to making the process data-driven, seamless, and fast. Behind the scenes, sales operations and analytics teams focus on measuring pipeline status, forecasting, managing the sales tech stack, and enabling solutions like Sales Navigator. If there are blind spots in the data, this has a downstream effect to reps and their ability to be effective with the reporting they’re given. Currently, most sales ops teams upload tags to Sales Navigator, then download results and run manual processes through spreadsheets ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Ryan Sleeper. The table and dot plot you see in my visualization are actually two separate sheets made to appear as one. When this is the case, by default, Tableau adds a scroll bar to each sheet. Not only does this take up space with a clunky gray scroll bar, the two scroll bars do not scroll to the same spot in unison. Needless to say, this can result in a horrible user experience and design. As with most things in Tableau, there is a hack for that. This is an ingenious trick I picked up ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ravi Mistry. 28 November, 2019 | Ravi Mistry Chapter One Part III: Interpreting Data with Technology We accept the data we think we deserve Given that data comes in many forms, shapes and sizes, it’s important to understand the things you can do with data. Amongst the numerous level of jargon we have to remember in our day to day lives, trying to figure out the difference between a FAT table and a FACT table is not what you want on a weary Thursday afternoon. Show me the data Pivotal to getting to grips with ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Eillie Anzilotti. On the surface, solving homelessness in cities, improving racial equity in public schools, ending hunger, and combating infectious disease in the developing world might seem like goals with little in common. But through Tableau Foundation, organizations with these goals have found kinship with one another, as well as a shared experience creating data culture. Every year during Tableau Conference, Tableau Foundation brings together nonprofits working on complex, global issues for a day-long summit on how data is transforming and amplifying their impact. The Tableau Foundation Summit offers a platform for nonprofits to share how ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Craig Bloodworth. 27 November, 2019 | Craig Bloodworth A Closer look at TC19 Devs On Stage It’s been 2 weeks since TC19…have you watched all the recordings yet? There’s over 370 of them and at an average of say 40 mins per video that means about 240 hours of content…so if the answer is yes I have a follow up question: when do you sleep?! Hopefully one of the first recordings you watched was the amazing Devs on Stage keynote where Tableau’s developers give us a view on what they’re working on and most excited ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Gwilym Lockwood. 26 November, 2019 | Gwilym Lockwood How to create a printable table with multiple pages This isn’t my favourite use of Tableau by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s something that comes up now and again when doing Tableau consulting: “I’ve got a massive table, which is fine to scroll through online, but I can’t print it. How can I print out this table over multiple pages while keeping all the dashboard formatting and the column headers?”. My solution to this uses a parameter and a running total calculation using the [Number ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Jason Dudek. According to TDWI research, companies are capturing terabytes of data from dozens or more sources, and in a self-service manner, to drive insight and action. Although, this doesn’t mean that they’ve modernized their data warehouse and analytics architecture. A single-layer analytics solution in a modern stack can help you overcome some of the pitfalls of using a traditional analytics solution or on-premises data warehouse, including data silos, stagnant data, redundant work efforts, and limited visibility into business health. And Tableau can be that analytics solution—with connections to diverse data sources regardless of the data ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Calen Holbrooks. We rolled into San Francisco fully energized from Tableau Conference 2019, where we spoke enthusiastically about Data Culture and how critical it is to power your people—all people—with data. And guess what? Marc Benioff, Co-CEO of Salesforce, felt it was incredibly important for Dreamforce attendees to hear what we had to say, so he invited Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky to his Dreamforce opening keynote to amplify, for all to hear, our sincere belief that the true power of data is unlocked when everyone in your organization is empowered to use it. Adam shared how ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Geraldine Zanolli. Each year at Tableau Conference, we host hundreds of developers at our annual hackathon. Developers form teams and compete—not only for prizes and bragging rights—but also to spend time with our Developer Platform team to sharpen their skills and learn from our experts. This year marked the fifth year of the #DataDev hackathon, and participants brought their A-game. From creative extensions, to using the Hyper API, to bringing CSVS into Tableau, to dynamic filters, our DataDevs used their coding skills and creativity to battle it out for our annual code championship. Over 20 teams ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Andre De Vries. 19 November, 2019 | Andre de Vries 5 Reasons Why You Should Join the Tableau #DataDev Hackathons The final Tableau 2019 hackathon which took place on the 12th of November at the Tableau Conference was the last session organised by the Tableau Developer team in 2019. There were a total of eight hackathons this year in six different cities. I participated in two of them – London and Las Vegas. I really enjoyed taking part, and in this blog post I want to highlight a few reasons why you should join these ... Read More