Sets and the Precedence of Filtering
Recently Tableau has published a white paper on LOD or level of details computation. In the paper, there is a chart on the precedence of filters which is very nice.
Especially this shows by what precedence various filters work in succession.
Incremental Extraction of Salesforce Data via Alteryx
This is meant to be a general incremental extraction scheme. It is derived from an example of our own work with Salesforce data.
We use Alteryx to extract data from Salesforce and then share the data source in yxdb/tde format.
Taking Stock or Counting Churns with Start and End Dates
[Update - a couple of related posts have been published recently:
Counting Active Orders via Pivot
Counting Active Customers ]
Introduction
Things come and go, including yours truly. C'est la vie. Life started when I checked into Earth on birthday. When will it end? Will see.
SFBATUG Meetup in Viz
So far I attended twice the San Francisco Bay Area Tableau User Group (SFBATUG) meetups. First time was at Twitter HQ in March. This time was at Charles Schwab on July 29, 2015. In between, seems I missed quite a few.
Each time, it was fantastic. The events were well organized.
Selected as Best of Tableau Web in May, June and July 2015
The following of my articles have been selected as the Best of Tableau Web recently:
May 2015
Histogram via Size()
June 2015
Histogram via LOD
July 2015
Coding Case Statement Made Easy Replacing Data Source the Fast Way Very grateful to the Tableau community for the inspirations and encouragem
