Tag: Tableau

Future features coming to Tableau 9.2 and beyond

Having been lucky enough to attend the huge (*) Tableau #data15 conference a couple of weeks ago - and by now managed to recover mostly - I have noted down some information from the keynote presentation and beyond of what features are likely to appear in nearby versions of Tableau. Any errors are of course of my own doing...it … Continue reading Future features coming to Tableau 9.2 and beyond →

Tableau software is now free for eligible non-profit organisations and educators

Heart-warming news for non-profits who want to save the world via data analysis from Tableau via PRNewsWire: Tableau Foundation, part of Tableau Software's (NYSE: DATA) corporate social responsibility (CSR) program, announced today that it will offer free licenses of Tableau Desktop to nonprofit organizations Qualification criteria is currently listed by Tableau as follows: Be registered as a 501(c)(3) organization … Continue reading Tableau software is now free for eligible non-profit organisations and educators →

How to map geographies in Tableau that are not built in to the product (e.g. UK postcodes, sales areas)

Tableau has a nice ability to create point ("symbol") or polygon ("filled") maps to visualise spatial data on. However, in order to do this, it of course needs to understand where each point you wish to plot is in the real world. Several of the most common geographic identifiers are built in, such as country, … Continue reading How to map geographies in Tableau that are not built in to the product (e.g. UK postcodes, sales areas) →

Kruskal Wallis significance testing with Tableau and R

Whilst Tableau has an increasing number of advanced statistical functions - a case in point being the newish analytics pane from Tableau version 9 - it is not usually the easiest tool to use to calculate any semi-sophisticated function that hasn't yet been included. Various clever people have tried to work some magic aroud this, for instance by … Continue reading Kruskal Wallis significance testing with Tableau and R →

Free dataset: all Reddit comments available for download

As terrifying a thought as it might be, Jason from Pushshift.io has extracted pretty much every Reddit comment from 2007 through to May 2015 that isn't protected, and made it available for download and analysis. This is about 1.65 million comments, in JSON format. It's pretty big, so you can download it via a torrent, as per the … Continue reading Free dataset: all Reddit comments available for download →

Data dictionary functionality in Tableau Server 9

Whilst Tableau is by far the best dataviz/exploration tool I have ever had the pleasure of using, I've traditionally felt it's not so strong in the boring "enterprise" areas around governance, metadata management, documentation and so on. It's quite clear to me why - the tool is/was aimed at data practitioners wanting to bypass all that slow, boring traditional IT … Continue reading Data dictionary functionality in Tableau Server 9 →

“Move datasource” arrives in Tableau Server v9

Oh happy days - just noticed the new Tableau Server / Online version 9 now allows one to move a datasource! Previously it was very easy to move a workbook from one project to another, but that wasn't possible for a datasource. Instead one had to delete the original datasource and republish it seperately to a … Continue reading “Move datasource” arrives in Tableau Server v9 →

Calculating prior year differences with custom calendars Tableau challenge

Visualisations of KPIs always require some context in order to make the analysis conducive to decision-making rather than just looking pretty. One that is very common within businesss and elsewhere would be to check some value, for example sales revenue, against the same value within the same time period last year.  "Same time period last … Continue reading Calculating prior year differences with custom calendars Tableau challenge →