Benchmark Results of the Tableau Hyper Data Engine
I revised a Tableau data engine benchmark study from 2013. I compared the new hyper data engine to the original Tableau data engine to see how much speed improvement was gained with the change.
Benchmarking Data Reshaping in #Alteryx
Introduction I have written a few articles about the necessity of data reshaping when you do a lot of work in Tableau. To read my most comprehensive article, click here. In that article, I show several examples of data reshaping, with the examples increasing in complexity throughout the article.
Using #Alteryx To Process Non-Ideal Flat-Files
Introduction Flat-files have been used around the world of the past few decades to store a lot of data. Flat-files were originally designed to save space, although they do have an intrinsic inefficiency because spaces are used as placeholders instead of using a delimiter, like a comma.
Working Notes For Drawing Polygons Using #Alteryx and #Tableau
Introduction This post is NOT really intended to be a super-clean and comprehensive, step-by-step instruction set for how to draw Alteryx-generated polygons in Tableau. However, if you are willing to do a little work, you will be able to reproduce the results in this article.
Using #Alteryx to Install #Tableau Buckets In Your Data Set
Introduction One of the most popular topics I have written about in this blog is a method I call “Tableau buckets”. I have been very surprised by the number of people that have found this concept to be useful. For this reason, I am going to extend this “bucket” concept to Alteryx workflows.