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Well, it’s been a hectic week in Las Vegas for our customer conference but I have a brief window to put up this post. If you’ve been here, I hope you had a great time and learned heaps! One of … Continue reading →

I thought it might be helpful to share with you a recent experience where I was helping a customer who was complaining of slow performing workbooks. When I arrived their Tableau analyst showed me a couple of workbooks that were … Continue reading →

[Sarah Battersby has on previous occasions shown how outrageously smart she is, but she has blown my mind today. I am sooo not worthy…] I’ve been asked on occasion if we can show point data from one data source (containing … Continue reading →

As a follow-up to my last post, we now have all the presentation recordings from our Data Day Out event in Melbourne available for viewing. TITLE LENGTH Ideas that Should Die 32 MIN Scribbles and Lines 20 MIN Playing it Safe: Freedom … Continue reading →

At the recent Tableau Data Day Out in Melbourne, I presented a session entitled “More than Dots on a Map”. The idea was to show how Tableau could allow users to do spatial analysis of their data – irrespective of … Continue reading →

Following from my post yesterday I had a colleague ask me: “So what happens when you force client-side rendering at the detailed level? Does it blow up with too much data?” Interesting question. Let’s find out. (For those of you … Continue reading →

In the pre-10.3 world, if we wanted to show custom regions on a map we had to use custom polygons. This approach was less than optimal for a number of reasons (probably the most painful of which was changing the … Continue reading →