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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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Using Tableau Prep to track account balance history from Mint
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Calculations, Data Shape & Structure, Tableau Prep
- On March 21, 2019
- 2 Comments.
I personally use Mint to track my personal finances (I’m not officially endorsing, but it does help me get the
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State of the Unions in Tableau Prep: MINUS, EXCEPT and INTERSECT
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Calculations, Data Blending & Joining, Data Shape & Structure, Tableau Prep
- On January 2, 2019
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Recently I gave a “State of the Unions” address for Tableau’s Think Data Thursday (the recording is here) in which
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Rank and Ranking in Tableau Prep
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Calculations, Data Blending & Joining, Data Shape & Structure, Tableau Prep, Tips and Tricks
- On June 15, 2018
- 16 Comments.
One thing I’ve submitted an idea for Tableau Prep (and would love if you voted for it!) is the ability
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Great Circles & Curved Flight Paths: Tableau & SQL Server Geospatial
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Calculations, Mapping / Geographic Visualization, New Features
- On June 8, 2018
- 3 Comments.
How can you leverage SQL Server geospatial tools in Tableau to draw cool curved flight paths (or any great arcs)?
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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