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
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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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Exploring DataRobot predictions using Tableau and Tableau Prep
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Dashboards, Data Blending & Joining, Data Shape & Structure, DataRobot, Tableau Prep
- On October 16, 2018
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I’ve been hearing about DataRobot for a while now (in fact, Teknion Data Solutions, where I’ve been a consultant for
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Have a Maestro Christmas and Tableau New Year!
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Dashboards, Data Shape & Structure, Fun, Tableau Prep
- On December 13, 2017
- 3 Comments.
Tableau’s new data prep tool, Maestro, is now in public beta, and I’m loving it! While the first beta doesn’t
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The Need for Speed: How to build Tableau visualizations quickly
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Dashboards, DataViz, Tableau Tip Tuesday, Tips and Tricks
- On October 24, 2017
- 10 Comments.
I recently competed in the Tableau Iron Viz where Tristian Guillevin, Jacob Olsufka and I raced to build a dashboard
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Tableau, you sunk my Battleship!
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Dashboards, Fun, Pushing the Limits
- On May 22, 2017
- 9 Comments.
Ah, games and Tableau – two of my favorite things together! And it isn’t all just about fun and games, it’s about
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Design technique for Tableau dashboards: semi-transparent images
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Dashboards, DataViz, Fun, Pushing the Limits, Storytelling & Commentary, Tips and Tricks
- On April 13, 2017
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Wow! I’m still stunned to have won the first IronViz feeder contest for 2017! And excited! And humbled. And honored.
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The Changing Shape of History: From the Colonies to the United States
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Dashboards, DataViz, Mapping / Geographic Visualization, New Features, Storytelling & Commentary
- On March 23, 2017
- 1 Comment.
I previously shared the fun I had with Tableau 10.2’s ability to connect to spatial files. In that case, I used historic
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Navigating Hierarchies in Tableau using Self Updating Actions
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Dashboards, Data Blending & Joining, Pushing the Limits, Tips and Tricks
- On March 1, 2017
- 2 Comments.
The Tableau technique shown here is to use an action to update an entire dashboard, including the filter selection and
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Fun with spatial files in Tableau 10.2
- By Joshua Milligan
- All, Dashboards, Data Blending & Joining, DataViz, Dates, Fun, Mapping / Geographic Visualization, New Features, Storytelling & Commentary
- On February 22, 2017
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Tableau 10.2 is almost here! And it’s time to celebrate! One thing I’ve always wanted to do in Tableau is
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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