Tableau Prep Tackles Walmart Receipt Data
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Calculations, Data Blending & Joining, Data Shape & Structure, Tableau Prep
- On January 29, 2020
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You can’t beat the convenience of online grocery shopping. Especially with four young children, I find it wonderful to pull
Parameter Actions + Geospatial Functions = Tableau Awesomeness!
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Calculations, Mapping / Geographic Visualization, New Features, Pushing the Limits, Tips and Tricks
- On December 17, 2019
- 1 Comment.
The very first blog post I ever wrote demonstrated how to calculate distance between locations using a parameter and table
Tableau Minesweeper!
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Fun, Pushing the Limits
- On December 3, 2019
- No Comments.
It’s here! The fully playable Tableau Minesweeper Game. Designed in pure Tableau… no JavaScript, no API, no extensions, no R
Tableau Trek: Exploring and Using New Features of Tableau and Tableau Prep at #DATA19!
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Calculations, Dashboards, Data Blending & Joining, Data Shape & Structure, DataViz, Fun, Level of Detail Calcs, New Features, Pushing the Limits, Storytelling & Commentary
- On November 25, 2019
- No Comments.
When I was young I used to watch reruns of the original Star Trek. But I didn’t know they were
Tableau Prep Tackles Nest Thermostat Data
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Data Shape & Structure, DataViz, Fun, Tableau Prep
- On October 11, 2019
- 2 Comments.
Last year, I went home from the Teknion Christmas party with a shiny, new Nest Learning Thermostat. Sure, I was
Dynamic Parameters in Tableau
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Calculations, Dashboards, New Features, Pushing the Limits, Tips and Tricks
- On August 22, 2019
- 8 Comments.
Dynamic Parameters in Tableau is one of the most requested features of all time. Tableau’s developers have tackled individual use
Spatial Joins in Tableau with Excel, Text, Anything
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Data Blending & Joining, Data Shape & Structure, Mapping / Geographic Visualization, New Features
- On August 14, 2019
- 2 Comments.
How can you join your non-spatial data to spatial data? Using the latest spatial functions, you can achieve spatial joins in Tableau with almost any data source.
Python strikes again! More Python scripts for Tableau Prep
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Calculations, Data Shape & Structure, Dates, New Features, Tableau Prep
- On July 16, 2019
- 2 Comments.
I wrote previously about some very simple, but useful, Python scripts for Tableau Prep (and start with that post to
Python in Tableau Prep: simple useful scripts
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Calculations, Data Blending & Joining, Data Shape & Structure, Tableau Prep
- On July 8, 2019
- 8 Comments.
Tableau Prep Builder 2019.3 is currently in beta and I’m loving it! (along with all the other goodies: Tableau Desktop,
Parameter Actions in Tableau 2019.2 Sneak Peek
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, DataViz, New Features
- On April 17, 2019
- 4 Comments.
Tableau 2019.2 is currently in its second beta* which means it is getting closer and closer to release! And I’m
Joshua Milligan is a five-time Tableau Zen Master. His passion is training, mentoring, and helping people gain insights and make decisions based on their data through data visualization using Tableau.
He is a principal consultant at Teknion Data Solutions, where he has served clients in numerous industries since 2004.
Joshua served as technical reviewer on several Tableau titles and is the author of the book Learning Tableau.
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