Posted by Eric
LOD expressions are an amazing, fantastic, and revolutionary enhancement in the Tableau world, but there are some things to keep in mind. An LOD expression is essentially an additional request for data within a database. Under the covers it’s a bit more complicated than this simple statement, but conceptually an LOD is a secondary request […]
Posted by Eric
Background One of the most common types of data we see at Unilytics is survey data. We’ve worked with surveys ranging from hundreds of respondents and dozens of questions to large surveys with tens of thousands of respondents and hundreds of questions. While there are some idiosyncrasies between small and large surveys, there are far […]
Posted by Teigen Enhorning
Automation is the future, there’s no doubt about it. After all, who doesn’t want to save time and money. Tableau helps companies and government organizations automate reporting with a drag and drop style that doesn’t require coding, but welcomes it all the same. Automation is a hot topic in almost every industry including healthcare, agriculture, […]
Posted by Teigen Enhorning
If data alone could convince anyone of anything we’d all run perfect businesses. In the last two years we’ve created more data than all other years combined! So why does it feel like we’re not learning enough from all this information? Well, it’s because we’re using less than half a percent of all this data. […]
Posted by Karen
As new technologies are developed each year, our ability to deliver better technologies also increases. This leads to new breakthroughs each and every year in tech sectors, and in data analysis and management as well. We are constantly seeing newer and better techniques and methods to categorize, organize, and present data to make it easier […]
Posted by Eric
The following list of changes, tweaks, or considerations are all designed to improve performance of a Tableau dashboard. Not all suggestions will work in all situations, so even with this list there is a need for experience and understanding of how Tableau works in order to properly evaluate this list. There are three broad categories […]
Posted by Peder Enhorning
Your data needs to be easily accessible and stored in a way that leads to insightful analysis. That means using a data architecture to create that perfect data warehouse – an amalgamation of disparate data sources optimized and organized into one. This will enable informed decision-making. And will make your job more meaningful. Bringing data […]
Posted by Adam Jacobs
What is Tableau Prep? Tableau Prep is a desktop software tool that was introduced this summer. It’s a new offering in the Tableau Product family, joining Desktop, Server, Online and Reader. Tableau Prep is a separate software installation, with its own license key. With the new licensing of Tableau, everyone with Tableau Creator (which includes […]
Posted by Adam Jacobs
RFM (Recency, Frequency, Monetary) analysis is commonly used for customer segmentation, to split our users into types. For example, people who visit a website regularly but don’t buy much would be a high “frequency” but a low “monetary” visitor. This analysis is especially common in retail where we want to create a view of our […]
Posted by Adam Jacobs
Points and Polygons – together at last. But how? Read on… Tableau has made amazing progress on spatial data over the past year or two. In Tableau 9.2, we got the ability to add new maps through Mapbox, which opened up a world of more detailed and creative backgrounds like satellite or live traffic. Another […]
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