Category: Data Prep
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Year in Review / Top Playfair+ Tutorials of 2025
What a year 2025 has been! With 29 new written tutorials, 18 new video tutorials, and many public and private training events held throughout…
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Describing Your Data with Tableau Prep
Being able to take a new dataset and create an actionable visual analytics tool with it can be a challenge. In fact, sometimes figuring…
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Bringing Tables Together: Working Across Independent Data Sources in Tableau
Welcome to the fourth part of our series on bringing tables together! This article covers working with multiple data sources without using Joins, Relationships,…
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Bringing Tables Together: Blending Data Sources
Welcome to the third part of our series on bringing tables together! This article covers using blends to work with multiple related data sources.…
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Bringing Tables Together: Multi-fact Relationships in Tableau
Welcome to our series on bringing tables together in Tableau where this tutorial walks through a deep dive into multi-fact relationship models. This is…
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3 Ways to Fix Null Values
Have you ever experienced this situation or a similar one? You are working with your data, building out some sort of data prep process…
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Exploring Random Number Generation in Alteryx: Techniques and Applications
Random Number Generation (RNG) as the name suggests, is a useful tool that generates a random number, and can provide the foundation for numerous…
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Why It’s Important to Understand the Granularity of Data
When kicking off a project involving data, one of the first questions will be, “Do we have the right data to complete this project?”.…
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An Introduction to the Power BI Power Query Editor
With the Power BI Power Query Editor, the data engineering world is at your fingertips. You can shape data to your heart’s (or report’s)…
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How to Remove Duplicates in Tableau Prep
One of the most common data cleaning issues after joining or unioning data is duplicate rows. Without deduplicating rows, you run the risk of…
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Bringing Tables Together: Tableau Relationships
This is part two in a series on combining data tables together for analysis in Tableau. Other posts in this series Part 1 –…
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Quick Start Guide to TabPy
TabPy is a Tableau feature that allows you to utilize Python scripts as calculated fields for your visualizations. It is not to replace the…
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Data Lake vs Data Warehouse: What’s the Difference?
With the vast amount of data available today, many organizations are assessing their data solutions and making decisions to support the integration of AI…
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Tableau Prep Builder and Tableau Prep Conductor for Data Automation
With the ever growing emphasis on data visualization and analysis, it is easy to overlook the backend processes and tools. Data pipelines and ETL…
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How to Connect to Data in Power BI Desktop
Microsoft’s Power BI is one of the top data visualization platforms on the market. The Power BI platform has products to suit many of…
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A Quick Start Guide to Tableau Prep
In this tutorial, we’ll be covering the Tableau Prep tool and how we can use it to build out data workflows. If you are…
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How to Manipulate Dates in Alteryx
Whether you work with data as a hobby or as your career, it is all but certain that you will encounter dates within a…
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Bringing Tables Together: Tableau’s Physical Layer
Welcome to our series on bringing tables together! This first article is all about the physical layer in Tableau, including unions, joins, and custom…
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Statistical Tableau: How to Analyze Distribution with Histograms
There are many times when performing data analysis when we may want to view the distribution of our data. One way to view distribution…
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How to Use Spatial Data to Map Rivers and Roads in Tableau
Spatial data is becoming increasingly relevant in the world of data visualization, and is easier to use with Tableau than ever before. Personally, I…
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How to Do Customer Segmentation with Dynamic Clustering in Tableau
Tableau has a few different built-in analytics features that allow you to both summarize and model your data in various ways. One of those…
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9 Quick Alteryx Tips to Optimize Your Data Workflows
When beginning to develop an Alteryx workflow, sometimes I find myself asking, where should I start? What happens next? How do I take this…