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
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
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
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,
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
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
- No Comments.
Recently I gave a “State of the Unions” address for Tableau’s Think Data Thursday (the recording is here) in which
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
- No Comments.
I’ve been hearing about DataRobot for a while now (in fact, Teknion Data Solutions, where I’ve been a consultant for
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
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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