3D Models in Tableau

Apr 8, 2020 Alex | coolbluedata.com

The blog post describes approaches to creating three-dimensional models in Tableau. 3D Models are not a common way of using Tableau, but they can be a great way to explore Tableau’s capabilities and deepen your knowledge of the platform

English,tableau

Calculating dynamic Z scores in Tableau

Apr 6, 2020 Gwilym | gwilymlockwood.com

What are Z scores? How can you calculate them in Tableau? And once you’ve done that, what can you use them for? This blog will cover all of that, using some fake data from a factory that produces things. We’ll have a look at how the things differ ...

datavisualisation,Tableau,data,statistics

Data driven pictures in Tableau

Apr 4, 2020 Alex | coolbluedata.com

В этой статье рассматривается подход к созданию точечных изображений, при котором в каждую точку можно записывать данные. Таким образом, точка становится носителем данных, и ее положение, размер и цвет обретают смысл. Из таких дата-атомов формирую...

Russian,python,tableau

Preppin' Data 2020: Week 12 challenge solution

Mar 22, 2020 | www.prosvetova.com

Here is my solution for Peppin’ Data 2020, Week 12. This challenge was about calculating weekly sales figures for products based on total sales numbers.

preppin_data,tableau_prep,data_prep,etl

New Viz: A Redesign of the John Hopkins COVID Case Tracker.

Mar 21, 2020 | www.dataplusscience.com

This visualization offers a redesign of the John Hopkins COVID Case tracker visualization.

A Journey to Custom Subtotals with Table Calculations

Mar 12, 2020 | www.dataplusscience.com

This past weekend Tableau Zen Master Klaus Schulte published a great blog post showing four different ways of Adding Custom Sub-Totals in Tableau. In this blog post, he demonstrates how to do this with data densification and table calculations. I ...

Passing League

Mar 7, 2020 Adam McCann (noreply@blogger.com) | duelingdata.blogspot.com

Preppin' Data 2020: Week 9 challenge solution

Mar 4, 2020 | www.prosvetova.com

Here is my solution for Peppin’ Data 2020, Week 9. In this challenge we looked at US Election poll results from RealClearPolitics.com. The goal for the challenge was to clean and prepare the data so it can be used to visualise poll results as a bu...

preppin_data,tableau_prep,data_prep,etl,pivot

New feature in Tableau Prep Builder 2020.1: Fixed Level of Detail expres...

Feb 29, 2020 | www.prosvetova.com

Tableau Prep Builder 2020.1 was recently released, and it now supports Fixed Level of Detail (Fixed LOD) calculations, similar to Tableau Desktop. That means that you can use them to change the granularity of fields in your data, or create new fie...

preppin_data,tableau_prep,data_prep,etl,lod

How to Embed Tableau Dashboards into Salesforce

Feb 26, 2020 | andredevries.dev

There are many ways of embedding a Tableau Dashboard into Salesforce. I recorded two videos that show how to do that. In the first one I’m showing the easy way with no coding involved. The second video uses a Visualforce page that integrates with ...

How to use a 'do... while' loop for API pagination

Feb 24, 2020 | andredevries.dev

Many APIs provide their data in several pages. In order to grab all of the data of these pages you have to make multiple API requests in a loop. In JavaScript there are multiple ways of writing such a loop. In this blog I take a look at the ‘do… w...

Tableau Metadata API, GraphQL and how to get data with Alteryx - Part Two

Feb 21, 2020 | andredevries.dev

In late 2019 Tableau released the Metadata API. This is a new API that allows you to query assets and metadata about your Tableau systems. It allows you to track lineage, do impact analysis and find content on your server. In this second blog post...

Tableau Metadata API, GraphQL and how to get data with Alteryx - Part One

Feb 20, 2020 | andredevries.dev

In late 2019 Tableau released the Metadata API. This is a new API that allows you to query assets and metadata about your Tableau systems. It allows you to track lineage, do impact analysis and find content on your server. In this first blog post ...

Feb 16, 2020 Adam McCann (noreply@blogger.com) | duelingdata.blogspot.com

How to avoid spaghetti bowl Alteryx to create readable workflows

Feb 13, 2020 Philip Riggs | www.datablick.com

What is an Alteryx spaghetti workflow?

Tableau,PadawanDojo

How to create a user snippet in VS Code

Feb 9, 2020 | andredevries.dev

I write all my blog posts in markdown in VS Code. That’s because this website is built with Gatsby and this tool makes it extremely easy to create pages with it. What I don’t like about writing markdown, especially for a Gatsby blog, is that I hav...

House Impeachment of Trump

Jan 29, 2020 Adam McCann (noreply@blogger.com) | duelingdata.blogspot.com

For this viz I wanted to play with the new animation features in Tableau. Here I use animation as a way of building and narrating a story. This particular visualization shows the story of Impeachment of Trump in the House.I build the story by disp...

The 6 Month Blues

Jan 25, 2020 | www.dataplusscience.com

One of the common issues that comes up in our “Building World-class Business Dashboards” workshops is how to gain user adoption and change culture. For example, a recent question was around color, specifically, how to steer the organization away f...

Seismometer-style animations in Tableau v2020.1

Jan 23, 2020 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

Note: this post uses a lot of animations and might be slow to load. Also the post was updated about 2 hours after publishing thanks to a tip from Pauli Isaacs @ Tableau about thinking about viz Level of Detail and what makes a markID. I use a hear...

TipsandTechniques,2020.1,padding,seisomgraph,VizAnimation

Talk! New in Tableau: Trigger Events with Webhooks

Jan 22, 2020 | andredevries.dev

In version 2019.4 Tableau released the ability to use webhooks in the platform. With webhooks you are able to integrate Tableau events in your own applications. An example could be a message in your Slack work space when a new workbook was publish...

104 WoW

Jan 8, 2020 dsmd4vid | dsmdaviz.com

My thoughts on two years worth of workouts or 104 of them…The post 104 WoW appeared first on TABLEAU PASO A PASO.

WorkoutWednesday,gallery,workout

Truncating the Axis and a Concept Redesign

Jan 8, 2020 | www.dataplusscience.com

Last week Mona Chalabi posted a chart First Time Home Buyers Average Age. Below is Mona’s chart. This chart spread quickly through the data visualization community. So what is the issue here? The primary issue is that the data is being encoded wit...

WOW2020 – 01

Jan 5, 2020 dsmd4vid | dsmdaviz.com

Primer Workout de 2020 de la mano de Luke Stanke. Interesante cómo desaparece la selección de las marcas del encabezado.The post WOW2020 – 01 appeared first on TABLEAU PASO A PASO.

WorkoutWednesday,parameter,workout

Trump Face

Jan 2, 2020 Adam McCann (noreply@blogger.com) | duelingdata.blogspot.com

Using the same approach I built for this Trump tweet post I put together this viz to allow you to change Trump’s face yourself. Have fun.

How to install TailwindCSS?

Jan 1, 2020 | andredevries.dev

In the previous blog post I explained what TailwindCSS is. In this post we will install the framework and discuss the various ways you can actually install it. This might not be one of the most exciting blog post out there, but it’s more of an exe...

Tableau Tip The INDEX Trick

Dec 31, 2019 Hanna Nykowska | www.hanykowska.com

I wanted to share something that I have found very useful in the past year. What I have in mind, is something I call ‘the Index trick’.First published on The Information Lab Blog.

tableau

What is TailwindCSS?

Dec 31, 2019 | andredevries.dev

In 2020 I want to focus more on learning how to create effective designs and how to get better at designing user experiences. A really exciting framework that will help me with this is TailwindCSS. In the next few months, while I’m learning, I wil...

Eli Manning

Dec 30, 2019 Adam McCann (noreply@blogger.com) | duelingdata.blogspot.com

Dec 24, 2019 Adam McCann (noreply@blogger.com) | duelingdata.blogspot.com

How to deploy a React application on AWS Amplify

Dec 8, 2019 | andredevries.dev

While studying for one of the AWS Exams I found a service called AWS Amplify. In this video I show you how easy it is to use this service to push a React application to a repository on Github and then have it automatically deploy on AWS.

Text Alignment on Dashboards

Dec 6, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

Yesterday, Steve Wexler posted a new blog post DON’T center, right-align, or justify text on a dashboard. Steve makes a case that only left-aligned text should be used on a dashboard. While Steve states in his blog post, “Or at least have a very g...

Hiding Selection Borders in Tableau

Dec 6, 2019 Jonathan Drummey | www.datablick.com

Tableau adds borders around the selected mark(s)…this post by Jonathan Drummey presents a technique for hiding the selection borders.

Tableau,Design

Mobile Accordion - easy access to details

Dec 5, 2019 Anya A'Hearn | www.datablick.com

Many of the mobile applications that I use have accordion-style navigation to allow me to quickly pop up additional details if I want to investigate something further, like stock activity if I see a price suddenly jump or fall. I wanted to add thi...

Tableau,Design

Target Practice: Theme and Variations on a Bullet Graph

Dec 4, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

Back in January, I published Bar Hopping: Theme and Variations on a Bar Chart. The second installement was Line Dancing: Theme and Variations on a Line Chart in collaboration with Andy Cotgreave. In this installment, I show variations of the Bulle...

How to create a printable table with multiple pages in Tableau

Nov 26, 2019 Gwilym | gwilymlockwood.com

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 ca...

Tableau

Tableau TC19 DataBlick sessions available for viewing!

Nov 20, 2019 Anya A'Hearn | www.datablick.com

We are back from an exciting and information-packed Tableau conference. In case you were not able to attend the sessions, we have handy links below so you can view the sessions at your convenience.

Tableau,Design

Alteryx: Web Scraping & APIs in 45 Minutes

Nov 20, 2019 | andredevries.dev

At the Alteryx Inspire Europe Conference in October 2019 I hosted a training session on how to web scrape and connect to APIs in Alteryx. I did a repeat of that session as a webinar two weeks later. I have now uploaded the recording of that webina...

5 Reasons Why You Should Join the Tableau #DataDev Hackathons

Nov 17, 2019 | andredevries.dev

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. In this blog I give 5 Reasons why you should join the next Tableau Developer ...

How to build Chord Chart in Tableau with Table Calculations and LODs

Nov 7, 2019 Hanna Nykowska | www.hanykowska.com

Want to build a chord chart but don’t have access to fancy data preparation tools? I got you covererd!First published on The Information Lab Blog.

tableau

Paso a Paso – Calendario con fechas resaltadas

Nov 3, 2019 dsmd4vid | dsmdaviz.com

Cómo crear un calendario con fechas resaltadas en Tableau. Qué hacer cuando hay días sin datos. Paso a Paso con los cálculos y las acciones.The post Paso a Paso – Calendario con fechas resaltadas appeared first on TABLEAU PASO A PASO.

DesgranandoTableau,WorkoutWednesday,cálculodetabla,calendario,how-to,pasoapaso,sets,tutorial

Better Tableau REST API Security with Personal Access Tokens

Nov 1, 2019 | andredevries.dev

Currently authentication of the REST API in Tableau is handled with personal login details. In order to authenticate you need to send your credentials, however in 2019.4 we also get the ability to use Personal Access Tokens. A new addition to the ...

Off the hook! Automating Tableau with Webhooks

Oct 27, 2019 | andredevries.dev

Tableau version 2019.4 will see the introduction of webhooks in the Tableau platform. Webhooks allow you to connect Tableau to your apps. This means that an action in Tableau can trigger another app.

How to integrate Alteryx with Slack

Oct 26, 2019 | andredevries.dev

In this blog post I will explain how you can integrate Alteryx with Slack. This integration means you can interact with your Alteryx Gallery from within your Slack environment. This example includes slash commands to find a list of workflows in yo...

Standard errors and confidence intervals in Tableau

Oct 25, 2019 Gwilym | gwilymlockwood.com

tl;dr version Here’s how to make bar graphs with standard errors and confidence intervals in Tableau. It involves making some calculations yourself, which may or may not differ from Tableau’s built in versions. You can download the workbook showin...

Tableau,statistics

Remembering Kelly Martin

Oct 6, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

This past Monday we lost a beautiful soul when Kelly Martin passed away. She had been battling cancer for a long time and this past Moonday she passed away in her home. For those who are new to the Tableau community or the broader data visualizati...