This post is a follow-up of the “Tableau Extensibility Framework” blog post which talks about a very interesting advanced analytics manufacturing use case. The video below shows 2 more scenarios of how you could leverage the very same framework for: generating geographical data at... Read More

Today Nathan Mannheimer (Director, Data Science and ML Products at Tableau) and Andrew Beers (Tableau CTO)  publicly announced that Tableau will introduce “Tableau Visualization Extensions“! The community asked for it since years and the preview in today’s “Devs on... Read More

Hi Tableaufans, Integrating Tableau into Salesforce is more important to customers than ever before! Since Salesforce announced Tableau’s acquisition in 2019 the platform of Salesforce and Tableau are getting closer and closer together. Even prior to the acquisition announcement customers... Read More

The first thing you should notice about this blog post is, that it has got a highly precise name “Tableau Wafer Extension”, but the word “Framework” attached to it. The reason is, this Tableau Extension solves a highly specific problem, but it can be leveraged to solve... Read More

There are different ways on how to embed Tableau in a responsive way. This post references a page where you can see a couple of different examples on how to embed Tableau responsively. All of the examples might have pros and cons which you can discuss and compare with your Tableau contacts as... Read More

Dear Tableaufans, data analysis is often about “What is IN the data?”. Therefore we sometimes forget to ask the question about “What is NOT in the data?“!!! There is a very easy feature within Tableau which enables you to do so. Showing all values of a dimension  even if... Read More

Preface This document assumes you are already using or used or aware of the base set up from  Timo’s  Extension write back to MYSQL. You can use the same XAMPP or your web server and PHP (which is used to INSERT/Writeback to Snowflake DB).  Step 1: Create Role in Snowflake  Create a Role... Read More

Get to learn how to embed Tableau vizualizations with the JavaScript API Great examples to see what’s possible as well as the code so that you can go ahead and download it to make it your own! Jackson Huang (Senior Software Developer at Tableau) and I have been presenting on Kickstart... Read More

In this blog post you can get all 3 Tableau Write Back Extensions as part of a larger demo asset – a Tableau Server Site which demonstrates all kinds of cool things on the Tableau Platform. Nevertheless people are regularly asking how to just quickly demonstrate how Tableau Write Back... Read More

How to replicate this in your own environment? Create a free test account on Microsoft Azure Create a SQL Database on Azure Install Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Follow the instructions on Manoj’s great blog post to: Create 3 users on the database Create a new table Fill the... Read More

Are you interested in setting up a Proof of Concept kind of environment where you can see embedded Tableau Dashboards in action?  If so, please follow the instructions below. The idea of this asset is to see how Tableau can look like in embedded scenarios, how you can extend Tableau’s... Read More

FYI: Parameter Actions are available since 2019.2 Today I’ve been on customer side where they wanted Tableau to have a filter which is able to select a relative date as well as  range of dates   Ideally this could be chosen by a Tableau Server Viewer interactively by having a simple... Read More

Back in 2017 I’ve been posting about how to define a start page for individuals, groups, sites or all users of a Tableau Server. Back in the day’s this has been more of a hack than a feature, but is has been already possible. In Tableau’s current 2019.2 beta it looks like that... Read More

Are you interested in trying the following 3 Tableau Extensions in your own environment? If so, please follow the instructions from this blog post as it contains all 3 of them + much more as a Tableau Server Site which your can import  Or this blog post if you want to get them up and running in... Read More

A very popular post for the many data scientists within the Tableau community has been this blog post around how to setup multiple External Services for Tableau. Therefore this post is meant to be the first follow up post on it. While the initial architectural diagram showed flask as an adapter... Read More

  In 2014 I’ve been blogging about “Interactive Company Reports” for the first time. The initial post is just available in German, but the links and ideas will quickly be reiterated in this post.  Moritz Pawelke (after working at Deloitte as Director | Digital &... Read More

Last year in March I’ve been posting an extension which allowed Tableau end users to write back data directly from within a dashboard. Back in the days Tableau Extensions have been available in BETA only. Today – roughly 12 month later – 2 Tableau ROCKSTARS joined me on... Read More

Preface This document assumes you are already using or used Timo’s  Extension write back to MYSQL. You can use same XAMPP, however since I already have npm on my machine I was using that as a webserver to host the PHP file which finally writes back the data to SAP HANA. Extensions work... Read More

Preface This document assumes you have fully installed XAMPP, MySQL and Tableau Extensions per this blog: https://tableaufans.com/extension-api/tableau-extension-api-write-back-updated-source-code-for-tableau-2018-2/   Step 1: Create a New SQL Server User Log in to the SQL Server you want... Read More

Which problem does it solve? It solves the problem of having discussions around particular outliers in visualizations. You can basically select any mark on a dashboard, create a new comment for it and review what other people discussed about it. This particular Tableau Extension is commenting... Read More

Which problem does it solve?It solves the problem of finding the right information you need in order to embed Tableau into your own app/application/webpage/wiki/etc.       How to?  1. Install Tableau Server or Start a Tableau Online Trial 2. Navigate to one of the Sample Dashboards 3. Integrate... Read More

  Which problem does it solve? Not being able to change Excel files (e.g. in planning scenarios) while you’re analyzing the very same file within Tableau. How to?  Links from within the video? All Tableau DriversMicrosoft Access Driver (for 2018.2) Read More

Dear Tableaufans, are you ready for Tableau Conference in New Orleans? Jackson Huang and myself – Timo Tautenhahn – are going to have another FUN SESSION about embedding Tableau into your own apps called: “ Tableau JavaScript API | The most delicious ingredient for your custom... Read More

  As the term Internet of Things (IoT) is climbing up on many “hype cycle hills” more and more companies are starting to leverage the data each and every device is creating. By being involved in helping start-ups, medium-sized and enterprise companies to making sense out of... Read More

          LATEST VERSION OF THIS WRITE BACK EXTENSION => CLICK HERE             Due to the Google Analytics analysis I’ve done for the current quarter one can easily see that you – the Tableau community which we call... Read More

Which problem does it solve? To figure out why content doesn’t show up anymore. Did a user delete it? Has it been a Tableau Server administrator job (REST API / TabCmd)? Can I use this for my Tableau Server environment? Yes, if you’ve got access to the Tableau Server repository on... Read More

In large Tableau Server installations you can have a tremendous amount of workbooks. As migrations with Tableau Server are historically already very easy many companies are just looking at some of the most popular workbooks to see if the upgrade has been successfull. Nevertheless the amount of... Read More

What is it? It’s a web application which visualizes pictures coming from a 3rd party application (Photo Booth) based on selections end users are making on a map (Tableau Dashboard).   Which problem does it solve? It solves the problem of combining Tableau + pictures when you... Read More

The following video is demonstrating how you can connect Tableau to a REST API – LIVE – by making use of a 3rd party software (which needs to be licensed!). It is called Custom Connector SDK from Progress. It’s an SDK which you can think of as a framework which you can adjust... Read More

          LATEST VERSION OF THIS WRITE BACK EXTENSION => CLICK HERE             Due to the positive feedback of the write back extension from the video below I want to equip IT FOLKS with the right tools to setup the same environment on their machines... Read More

LATEST VERSION OF THIS WRITE BACK EXTENSION => CLICK HERE The video below is demonstrating how you could leverage Tableau’s Extension API to save a tremendous amount of time in your planning and forecasting processes. This is done by coding a Tableau Extension which is actually writing... Read More

Do you want to combine different SAP BW Queries on a single Tableau Dashboard? Well, having multiple next to each other on a dashboard is not a problem at all, but how can you make them interact with each other? This is exactly what this blog post is going to demonstrate: If you’re... Read More

Administration of Tableau Server is not a lot of effort. Yet, what if you would like to be even more efficient? What if you would like to have recurrent tasks done by themselves? Let’s automate! Tableau Server offers you an incredible amount of control, using our REST API. Eventually, you... Read More

Yesterday I’ve had a great meeting with Alican Polat. Alican has got roughly 20 years of experience in the analytics industry!!! The spectrum he covers in this area reaches from architectural design, over SAP, Tableau and other BI front end as well as backend tools, too machine learning... Read More

Are you a Tableau Admin? Do you want to define which Project/Workbook/Dashboard/DataStory users should initially see once they’re logged in? Since many customers are used to have entry dashboards for most of their applications to show latest news, maintenance windows, updates and changes... Read More

Today I want to follow up on my previous post about Customer Portals which I’m going to re-brand to “Client-Facing Analytics” where clients can be both internal AND external! The reason for the re-branding is to avoid confusion around Tableau’s “Customer... Read More

Embedding Tableau Server or Tableau Online into customer portals is quite a very popular use case and more and more companies are providing Analytics to their clients. There are many ways of doing that and Tableau‘s Community is providing hundreds of great articles and videos around it. As I... Read More

Today I want to reference a post I made in March 2015. Back in the days I was recording a video about different ways to start a Tableau presentation. A couple of days ago I got invited to give a TechTalk speach at a bank in Frankfurt, Germany. In order to introduce the crowd to Tableau I wanted... Read More

This video demonstrates how to move a workbook from one project to another project using TabCmd. The general idea of Tableau is to setup a highly agile Analytics Platform. Nevertheless some industries, companies or use cases require workflows/regulated approvals before a workbook, dashboard or... Read More

Our Tableau Conference in Austin just started and more than 12.000 customers made their way to Texas! Today I wanna post about a fun app which can be used in many different ways! It’s called “SwipeRight” and I’m more than happy to talk about it during as well as after my... Read More

This video demonstrates how to get the smallest and the largest value within each cluster: More detailed information on what happens within Tableau’s clustering algorithm can be found on Bora’s awesome blog post over here The official documentation can be found here Tableau Public Viz: Read More

Klopf, klopf… Wer ist da? TABLEAU 10.0 steht vor der Tür und es bringt viele neue Sachen! Geografische Darstellung bis 9.3 Dies ist in Summe mein zweiter(!) Blog meines Lebens und dieser Umstand macht das Thema sogar noch interessanter als es eh schon ist. Tableau 10 bringt eine Funktion... Read More

Tableau’s last Conference On-Tour is over now. After Sydney, Singapore, Paris, London and Munich Tableau set the stage for it’s biggest event this year – TC Austin. Many of you, who attended Tableau Conferences in the past are already aware of the fact that you can’t... Read More

You think the above picture does not make sense at all? Well, that’s not true! You just need to change color and sorting and you’ll figure out what’s within the bubble chart. To help you just a tiny little bit – here we go with the colors you’ll need t... Read More

This is a quick tutorial as an iPhone optimized view on how to create something like this:   Read More

Today I want to share with you some ideas around transforming raw data into something more visual and valuable. The video below is demonstrating: Copying data containing street names from a PDF Pasting this into a free online tool (Batch Geocode) to get LAT and LONG Saving the result as a CSV... Read More

Today I want to share an idea about how to visualize targets. There are a bunch of different ways to do so. If the data is already part of your CRM solution or data warehouse – just take this information and represent it as bar, bullet graph, traffic light…you name it. If this is... Read More

One year ago I was blogging about interactive company reports. Back in the days KPMG was publishing it’s Global Automotive Executive Survey 2015. Today I want to share the next level of it with you! Moritz Pawelke (Global Executive for Automotive at KPMG) himself did another amazing job by... Read More

There are many great templates and design examples out there. Due to the fact that different people like different things and companies do have their own corporate style guides use this one as a template to customize it. Feel free to download it on Tableau public and modify it so that it fits... Read More

A couple of days ago a customer reached out to me in order to get a better understand on how we can make sense out of data. He wanted to do some statistical analysis, but we didn’t speak about any details at this point of time. I responded in a way that I asked him to get some real data... Read More

You may have had this problem in the past: people fill out your survey and skip certain questions. Therefore you’ll see NULL values in your Tableau visualization: Technically it is correct to show it in this way, but for your end users you may want to show something like “0 %”... Read More

If you ask yourself how Tableau could look like in an HR environment – here is the answer: This video is demonstrating how a global HR director could analyze his most important KPIs. From a high level overview you’ll see how you can navigate yourself all the way down from a country,... Read More

Attached you’ll find a video which is focusing on a specific performance requirement for their management. Maybe it helps you to gain ideas of how you can mix and match live and extract connections to provide your users with fast and interactive dashboards where they need it. Read More

This is the Link to our third best practices document about how to design efficient Tableau workbooks from MR High Efficient itself – Alan Eldridge: Best Practices for Designing Efficient Tableau Workbooks Read More

Frage: Kann das von Tableau generierte MDX-Statement in Tableau eingesehen werden? Wozu: Zur Wiederverwendung in anderen Reporting Systemen (biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitte?????? 😉 How to Help -> Settings and Performance -> Start Performance Recording Gewünschte Felder auf das Worksheet ziehen... Read More

Anbei ein kurzes Tutorialvideo das demonstriert wie Sie als Tableau Server User (Interactor) einen neuen Ad-hoc Bericht erstellen können ohne auf bereits existierende Berichte zugreifen zu müssen. Read More

This video demonstrates 3 different ways of how you can actually start a presentation about a Tableau related topic: Click on this link for the sample dashboard on Tableau Public. Read More

Anbei ein Video, dass demonstriert wie ich mich mit Tableau und einem ODBC Treiber live zu einem Google Spreadsheet verbinden kann.   Das Ergebnis aus dem Video mit dem Link zu Tableau Public: This video demonstrates how you are able to connect Tableau with a Google Spreadsheet using a 3rd... Read More

Heute öffnen wir eine neue Kategorie mit dem Namen “Visual Inspiration” bei Tableaufans.com. Hier werden wir künftig Links und Beispiele zu optisch ansprechend gestalteten Dashboards mit euch teilen. Im ersten Teil darf ich euch Kelly Martin vorstellen. Sie wurde 2014 zu einem... Read More

Dynamische Unternehmensberichte Teil II Vor einiger Zeit habe ich etwas zum Thema “Dynamische Unternehmensberichte” gepostet. Heute will ich ein sehr gelungenes Beispiel teilen, dass KPMG kürzlich veröffentlicht hat. Seit 16 Jahren publiziert KPMG die “Global Automotive... Read More

“Ihr Datenlein kommet, o kommet doch all. Zur Datenauswertung in Tableaus Stall” … und wenn ihr nicht kommt? Dann hol ich EUCH!  Kommentare, Fragen, Anregungen sind herzlich willkommen. Im Namen aller Beteiligten von Tableaufans.com wünsche ich eine besinnliche Weihnachtszeit... Read More

Wenn Unternehmen Informationen veröffentlichen ist man in aller Regel daran interessiert, dass diese Informationen auch von einem möglichst breiten Personenkreis konsumiert werden. Eine Möglichkeit dazu bietet Tableau Public im Zusammenspiel mit dem eigenen Webauftritt. Anbei 2 einfache... Read More

Anbei ein gut 6 Minütiges Video, dass das Erstellen und Zusammenführen von Extrakten auf Basis von SAP BW demonstriert. Fragen und Anregungen sind wie immer herzlich Willkommen! Read More

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Liebe Tableau Fans, ein neuer Blog Rund das Thema Datenvisualisierung ist online gegangen: Tableaufans.com! Es ist zwar nur ein kleiner Schritt einen Blog ins Leben zu rufen, jedoch ein großer diesen auch aktuell und am Leben zu halten! Daher möchte ich gleich zu Beginn alle Tableau Fans dazu... Read More