5 Ways to Improve Dashboard Engagement
Sometimes it’s the little things that can make a big impact with data visualization. Odds are you are closer than you think to build amazing dashboards that will have a huge impact on your organization. We put together our top 5 ways to improve your Tableau dashboards that make an instant impact on your dashboards […]
15 Awesome Resources for Learning Tableau
15 Awesome Tableau Resources (in no order whatsoever) Visualizing data in Tableau can help transform your business into a data driven culture. We love helping our clients and students achieve data excellence by supporting them on their path to become Tableau Ninjas. Here are some of our favorite articles, tips and tricks from around the […]
Displaying A Dashboard On A TV Screen
Displaying your data on a beautiful big screen TV can be a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. Here are some simple steps you can take to ensure an effective experience. 1. Your TV Needs a Browser It doesn’t matter if your TV is a smart TV or not. Your TV has to […]
Tableau Server Administration – Made Easy!
Tableau Server Administration At first, Tableau Server Administration seems simple enough. A fresh Tableau Server install is seamless, and you are up and running in no time. However, as your server matures, you gain more and more content, and the possibility for things to get out of hand is not just possible, it’s almost guaranteed. […]
VizBot: Automated Reporting for Tableau
VIZbot leverages your existing Tableau Server to download updated reports on a schedule and send those to users that meet a chosen criteria or ones that you specifically target. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvqOPJWOneU&feature=emb_imp_woyt&themeRefresh=1 “VIZbot burst static reports (PDF, PNG, or CSV) via email to users who are not quite ready for interactive reporting.” Basic Features: Automated email […]
Data Discovery Dashboard in Tableau
When starting to work with a new data set, it seems that we all have our own methods of how we like to dive in. I have seen – and used – almost every method in the book, but the goal is always the same: how do we find out what questions we should ask […]
Tableau Data Connectors and APIs
Looking for simplicity? Not so fast. If you have a developer who is able to build a Web Data Connector, and the APIs you are using supports CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing), then Tableau’s Data Connector will make quick work of connecting to APIs. If you find yourself without a developer, then that could really […]
Regular Expressions In Tableau
Many people may not have heard of Tableau’s new support for regular expressions, and in fact many people may not even know what regular expressions are. I want to fix both of those in this blog post, covering: What regular expressions are, and why they’re so powerful, How to use regular expressions in Tableau, and […]