Many students in class ask, “Is it possible for Tableau Reader to show the detailed data using View Data functionality available in Tableau Desktop?” The answer is no, this feature is not available in Tableau Reader.
However, while you can’t use View Data in Tableau Reader, you can
This dashboard, a Customer Sales Dashboard for a boutique winery, offers one strategic view of key questions asked by winery management. Information such as amount of sales attributed to various marketing programs, estimated profits by customer segment and number of customers acquired during each of the last four years is displayed. Using a series of … Read more
The “Simple Business Dashboard Design Strategies” presentation can be downloaded here. I am presenting this presentation today at 4 PM Pacific on Stacey Barr’s Measure and More Webinar.
The dashboard example in this presentation is available below.
Feel free to download abbreviated versions of the 2 presentations given to Dr. MacLachlan’s Marketing Analytics class. Take Action with Your Customer Data Using Visualization Dashboards Students interested in using an extended version of Tableau for Dr. MacLachlan’s class can obtain the Tableau license link from him.
We have several presentations and a book release in the the month of April!
We will be at the SAS Global Forum author party Monday afternoon, April 12th. “SAS for Dummies” is being released today, April 5th. I will be at the author party at the SGF conference with Chris Hemedinger (co-author) meeting other authors and SAS conference attendees.
On April 14th at 9 AM, at SAS Global Forum in Seattle, “The Future of Marketing Analytics with SAS Enterprise Guide“.
On April 14th, we are also
The setup
You have connected to more than one data source in your Tableau workbook, for example, your sales database in Oracle and a customer call database in SQL Server. Tableau seamlessly allows you to connect to multiple data sources in one workbook. Views developed from both data sources can be placed in a single dashboard.
However, if you try to use global filters or quick filters to synchronize the two data sources, you will find that it isn’t possible; only one data source can be linked to either. In fact, the term “Global” filter in Tableau can be confounding, since it is only global to views using the current data source. Global filters will not work with other data sources even if the data items have the same name!
The solution
As of Tableau 5.0 (released in 2009), a new feature
Inspired by a post at Flowing Data, I present three visuals that demonstrate how the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine could improve the presentation of this vital information. I personally found it shocking that US agricultural subsidies were so small
Books by John Tukey
Great thoughts from John Tukey
…Far better an approximate answer to the right question,
than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise….
Once upon a time statisticians
Which “green” activities are consumers performing in their everyday lives?
Activities that-
Win a great trip to San Francisco to attend the Web 2.0 conference and be featured on the Tableau Public home page and Read Write Web! Enter the Tableau Visualization Contest (now past and the page is no longer posted.) No matter what happens, you will have your own copy of tableau public to … Read more