Category: Technical Features
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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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Beginner’s Guide to DAX in Power BI: Creating a Date Table
In the same way that you can’t bake a cake without flour, you can’t use Power BI Desktop without Data Analysis Expressions, also known…
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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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Understanding Advanced Tableau Calculations Like Standard Deviation, Moving Average, and More
Tableau is a useful tool for an analyst to have in their repository, with its drag and drop interface allowing practitioners to easily dive…
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How to Enable Tableau Pulse and Ensure a Successful Launch
Tableau Pulse has created a lot of buzz within the Tableau community. Tableau developers around the world are celebrating because it can enable your…
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Power BI Service vs Power BI Desktop
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the words, “Power BI”? Is it Power BI Desktop or the Power BI service?…
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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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An Introduction to Parameters in Power BI
Parameters are user-generated values that define how a system can operate. We can use parameters in Power BI to grant users control over visuals…
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The Beginner’s Guide to Tableau Level of Detail (LOD) Calculations
In the ever-evolving landscape of visual analytics, you can often find yourself working with complex datasets, multiple data sources, and different systems. This can…
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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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The Beginner’s Guide to Basic Tableau Calculated Fields
At Playfair Data, we call calculated fields one of the “Big 3” – the three technical features that unlock the most flexibility in Tableau.…
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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 Use Dynamic URL Actions in Tableau
URL Actions and webpage objects are not new Tableau features, and a few use cases have been covered previously by Playfair. For example, URL…
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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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3 Ways to Optimize Tableau Workbook File Size
Are you running into file size issues when you attach Tableau workbooks to emails? Has IT asked your team to delete files or buy…
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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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How to Run and Interpret the Tableau Workbook Optimizer
Imagine you’ve just spent days, weeks, or maybe months creating the perfect dashboard. It has an eye-catching design, cutting-edge UX, and features every data…