When data comes flying at you at nearly the speed of light, you have to have fast processing capabilities for using the data to make effective decisions and predictions. In this article, I present some techniques I use to process large data sets in Alteryx and Tableau to be able to see the truth of what lies within the data.
Introduction I have scraped a wide variety data from websites over the years. Many times I have had to pre-process the data before using it in Tableau.
Background Just because something is trendy, don’t believe that it is good…Follow your own instincts. Donald Knuth, May 2, 2012. Over the past seven years, I have used Tableau Desktop to investigate over 1,000 different data sets. The data I have used is from many different businesses and industries. I have been very lucky to…