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. The list is generally presented […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
When I was asked to write a blog about Tableau Server Governance, I pondered how to make it somewhat entertaining. And I don’t think I can. Unless you’re a nerd like me, it’s not an exciting topic. With that in mind, I’m writing this blog as if I were having a friendly chat with a […]
Seemingly every week, there’s a story of an epic failure of a well-intentioned IT project. The company, or government, or charity set out to make changes and incorporate modern technology. They ended up wasting gobs of money and having nothing to show for it. Some stories can be truly mind-boggling, like the US Veterans Administration […]
For years, most of us have been using Excel for data analysis and are now ready to take advantage of the live visual analytics offered by Tableau. Tableau is well worth learning whether it’s for the ability to explore data and get insights quickly, for its automation functionality, for its sharing and collaboration capability, or […]
Recently while working with a client, I came across a challenging scenario: how do you filter the view, using a date filter, without impacting a calculation which included data that didn’t meet the date filter. In this case it was a moving average calculation (i.e., mean of specified time series). This is a tricky situation […]
We know a thing or two about analytics! Unilytics has been in analytics consulting since 2001 and started out in web analytics. We turned our attention to business intelligence and building dashboards five years ago and see many parallels. Website designers are always trying to enhance site usage, encourage more engagement, and improve the user […]
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