Posts Tagged ‘Tableau’

Both Tableau and MicroStrategy are great for analytics. And when you combine MicroStrategy’s security, governance and scalability with Tableau’s ease of use and self-service you get the best of both worlds. A customized web data connector allows Tableau users to do just that. Perficient’s MicroStrategy experts have created a plug-in for Tableau users that provides access […]

Outliers are considered as single points that are not part of 99% of datasets. Outliers represent the things that are present outside the normal experience. In this post, we will see how to detect these extreme outliers in Tableau. Steps for detecting Outliers in Tableau: I have used Tableau Superstore dataset for detecting these outliers. […]

Bump chart is used to effectively visualize ranking of dimension members across different measures over time. It is very easy to interpret from bump chart, how ranking of dimensions with respect to any measures varies over time. Steps to create BUMP charts in Tableau: I have used Tableau Superstore dataset for creating this BUMP charts. […]

Data sets are not static. They are constantly being updated, which can affect the quality of data. Data quality monitoring helps to resolve data issues quickly and also provides quality data. There are various ways we can resolve data issues in Tableau without changing the original data sources. Renaming We can rename fields in the Data pane […]

Implementation of PDF Connector in Tableau: Step 1: Connect to your data. Open the Tableau tool, and go to the ‘Start Page.’ In the Connect pane you can find all the connectors to connect to the various sources. Start page and Connect pane as below: Because you are going to use source as PDF and […]

Organizations are turning to self-service data visualization and analytics tools like Tableau to explore enterprise data without limiting users to pre-defined questions or IT requests. We’ve helped many companies across a variety of industries implement these data discovery solutions with great results. The following high-level overviews are a sample of these implementations, highlighting the power […]

In this blog, I will be describing how to configure Tableau 10 Desktop connection to Apache Drill and explore Hive or HBase instantly on Hadoop. By using the combined feature of these tools, we are convenient to get direct access on semi-structured data such as key-value format and even document storage, without having to rely […]

I recently attended the annual Tableau user conference in Austin, TX. They had record attendance this year with over 13,000 attendees. This highlights Tableau’s popularity and its reception in the marketplace. The big news was the keynote, which reviewed Tableau’s Three-Year Roadmap. Highlights included: A new data engine for faster analysis Project Maestro: A self-service […]

  Gartner forecasts that the business intelligence (BI) and analytics market will increase 5.2% over last year, reaching $16.9 billion by the end of 2016. Ian Bertram, managing vice president at Gartner, believes “The shift to the modern BI and analytics platform has now reached a tipping point.” He urges the organizations that are lagging […]

When it comes to choosing the right Cloud BI platform, there is usually a trade off between governance and centralization on one hand and agility on the other. BI software vendors like Tableau and Qlik, that are relatively newer to the game than traditional BI platforms, have changed the rules of what defines a better BI […]

  According to IBM, we generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. And, 90% of the data that exists today, whether found in your clinical systems, on social media, or on your mobile devices, has been gathered within the last two years. All of that is what we call “big data.” As the volume […]

The end of 2015 is fast approaching, with December looming just a week away. For most people, December is packed with the hustle and bustle of last-minute gift shopping, or end-of-year projections and budgets for 2016. Often in the sway of all this activity, many are so focused on the approaching New Year that they […]