Tableau for Excel users – Part 3 – Data Blending
Tableau has a number of ways to support visualisations and data analysis using multiple data sources – this includes ‘joining’ data and filtering from one view to another – but todays subject is DATA BLENDING. This post will explain the concept of data blending from the perspective of an Excel user, and is part of a series of posts to help Excel users get the best from Tableau. If you are looking for earlier posts in this series: Tableau for Excel users – Part 1 – Recreating the Pivot Table Tableau for Excel users – Part 2 – Calculated fields If you’re...
Read MoreDaily Vizzes Direct to Your Desktop
Ever wondered how many vizzes are on Tableau Public? How about enough to send you one every single day! Tableau have just redesigned the Public portal around the notion of delivering a viz to you each day. This is not just a great way to keep up with what everybody’s doing but also to improve your Tableau skills. If you want to learn ‘just how did they do that’ or simply be inspired by what’s possible, signup and download the workbooks which catch your eye. Ross Perez of Tableau Software recently filled me in on what it’s all about.
Read MoreBarcelona Tips & Tricks
This year’s Tableau conference in Barcelona made use of an hour each day during lunch to have Tableau employees, customers and partners give their favourite tips and tricks. The Information Lab had both Tom and Craig going up against each other in a 5 minute frenzy with Tom explaining how to take control and understand table calculations and Craig showing his innovative method for clearing dashboard filters. We’ll leave it to the attendees to decide which they preferred but for those who couldn’t make it here’s what you missed.
Read MoreFollow what’s happening in Barcelona
Whether you're in Barcelona or back at home here's our Twitter visualisation to help you keep track of what's going on at this year's Tableau European customer conference.
Read MoreHow to analyse the Tableau Server database
The following post is a guest post by Mark Peck – Database Administrator and Tableau Jedi from HiFX. Mark has kindly taken the time to explain his recent journey taken to understand the database behind Tableau server. Many thanks Mark. With Tableau being so good at providing mechanisms for users to analyse, report, extract and present data, we have quickly built a very large repository of workbooks and views. Over time, we have refined many of the earlier reports and visualisations to make them better as our experience and knowledge have grown. This...
Read MoreTableau for Excel users – Part 2 – Calculated fields
This is the second part of a series of posts, see part 1 here. Calculated fields in Tableau very similar to Excel formula, so if you have a reasonable understand of how Excel formula are used, transitioning this knowledge to Tableau can be straightforward. There are three major families of calculated fields in Tableau, and each has an equivalent in Excel – only the first two are dealt with in this post. 1. Non-aggregate calculations – calculations which are meaningful on each row of the underlying data 2. Aggregate calculations – calculations which are ONLY...
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