Readers: Well, TC18 Europe occurred this week and I was unable to attend again. However, I was able to catch Francois Ajenstat’s, Chief Product Officer for Tableau, keynote address on YouTube. Below are some screenshots and comments from his keynote. Best regards, Michael Francois Ajenstat Keynote Francois pointed out that more people and more data provide […]
Readers: Today, I am blogging my one-on-one discussion with Tim Messar. Tableau Community Spotlight: An Interview with Tim Messar Tim Messar – Biography Tim Messar is a Senior Data Architect working in the insurance industry at Sentry Insurance in Stevens Point, Wisconsin for over 12 years. He serves as a technical lead and resource on several projects and […]
Readers: Today, I am blogging my roundtable discussion with Bridget Cogley and Joshua Milligan. Bridget Cogley Bridget started her professional career as an American Sign Language interpreter. She loved it, did a fair bit of medical and post-secondary interpreting, and enjoyed analyzing language. Bridget feels it set the stage for what she does now. Since interpreting, […]
Readers: In Part 3, and our final part of this series on Improving Performance with Data Extracts, we will aggregate a Tableau data extract to the Month level, and review how you can unpackage a .TWBX file. If you have not read Part 2 of this series, you can do so by clicking here. If you have […]
Readers: It has been a while since I posted a new Tableau Deep Dive. I have to really admire the folks that blog on various Tableau topics every week. Researching, writing, and validating these technical blogs posts takes a lot of time and I wish I could devote more time to posting these. This week, I […]
Readers: In Part 2 of my deep dive into Trending in Tableau, I went over how to customize trend lines as well as the Trend Model. In Part 3, I will finish up this deep dive by discussing how to analyze Trend Models. I hope you enjoy this series about trending in Tableau. Best regards, […]
Readers: In Part 1 of my deep dive into Trending in Tableau, I went over the the different ways of adding trend lines, how trends are calculated by Tableau after querying the data source, and how trend lines are drawn based on various elements in the view. In Part 2, I will go over how to customize […]
Readers: Since my life now seems very centered in the Tableau World, I have decided to add a new blog topic called Tableau Deep Dive. I will, to the best of my ability, take a deep dive into a topic related to Tableau Desktop or Tableau Server. My first dipping of my toe in these […]
Readers: I have been creating some internal documentation at work for our new Tableau community who have been chomping at the bit to start working with it on some real projects. One of the topics that comes up a lot is the concept of COMPUTE USING or scope and direction. I have created some PowerPoint […]
