The DataDrive Blog

Our take on all things data.

Tableau

Tableau Demystified

Tableau Pricing Demystified | True Cost of Your Tableau Investment

Updated with the August 2023 Tableau pricing changes The ability to efficiently visualize and...

Read More
What is Tableau

What is Tableau? | Beginner's Guide to Key Features

Tableau is a powerful and intuitive data visualization software that has gained significant...

Read More

How to QA Tough Calculated Fields (Without Pulling Your Hair Out)

It’s tempting to try and solve calculation problems on the fly in your visualizations. Just slap...

Read More
Tableau Trusted Partner

Tableau’s Pricing Model– and Why Small Businesses Should Care

Last year, Tableau released a small revision to their subscription pricing model and it’s a big win...

Read More
HR Analytics Dashboard

HR Analytics in the Era of the Great Resignation

2021 was a prominent and influential year in the world of Human Resources. The pandemic pushed...

Read More
DataDrive is Tableau's 2021 Rising Star Partner of the Year

DataDrive is Tableau's 2021 Rising Star Partner

DataDrive is honored to be recognized as Tableau’s 2021 ‘Rising Star’ Partner of the Year. Tableau...

Read More

The Basics of Supply Chain Analytics

Supply Chain has become the term of the year thanks to the recent spotlight it’s been given during...

Read More

Tableau CRM + Salesforce Lightning Reports & Dashboards

With today's fast-evolving Salesforce product suite, we often get asked a lot of questions from...

Read More
Jeff Plattner Tableau Dashboard Templates

Start Saving Time with this Tableau Dashboard Templates Workbook

A couple of weeks ago, I published a Tableau Public workbook called Tableau Dashboard Layout...

Read More
DataDrive is a Tableau Premier Partner

DataDrive Celebrates Tableau Premier Partner Status

DataDrive is celebrating being named a Tableau Premier Services Partner! A Tableau Premier Partner...

Read More

Tableau vs Tableau CRM (Einstein Analytics)?

With the recent acquisition of Tableau by Salesforce, it’s no doubt that there are many questions...

Read More

Monday Makeover | Tableau Design Tips for a Cleaner Visualization

On April 30th, 2017 I published my very first Makeover Monday visualization to Tableau Public. It...

Read More

How to Get the Most Out of Your Snowflake Trial Part One

In most cases, a trial period is a great way to get introduced to a new tool and evaluate if its...

Read More

Regression, RServe & Tableau/Prep : Visualizing Model Performance

So you acquired all this of this awesome data and you’re asked to build a model to predict an...

Read More

Tableau Escape Room: Save the Christmas Cheer

Play Escape Room Here Twas’ the night before Christmas and all through Tableau, not a data...

Read More

Using Salesforce’s Einstein AI with Tableau

With the Salesforce acquisition of Tableau, a popular question is - how can Einstein’s powerful...

Read More

WOW2020 #49 Tutorial: Can you toggle between AND & OR filtering logic?

Analytics Consultant Sam Epley walks us through how he completed his week 49 challenge over at the...

Read More

Getting Started with TabPy and Rserve in Tableau Prep

With the proliferation of data analysis tools out there, and the growing ability to use them in...

Read More

Tutorial: Build a Clean Annotation Layer for use in Tableau

Leading up to the 2020 NBA Draft, I shared a Tableau Public visualization called NBA Draft Gems,...

Read More

Tutorial: Building a Presidential Election Dashboard in Tableau

One week remains before Election Day in the United States. That means that one of the most...

Read More

Zero to Tableau Certified in 90 Days

As an Analytics Consultant, it’s my responsibility to leverage Tableau and other tools to develop...

Read More

Parameter Use: Zoom In/Out on Chart

Have you ever had the need to zoom in and zoom out on a chart? Have you needed to be able to see...

Read More

Hex Maps for Tableau: US, Territories, & Canada

Web maps are tricky. Let's say you are using a dataset to compare sales across states and provinces...

Read More

Tableau's New Data Model- Exploring Tableau Relationships

Tableau's Fancy Feature in 2020.2 "The Noodle" Tableau continues to add awesome new features with...

Read More

Top 5 Features of Tableau v2020.1

Tableau’s latest quarterly release in Q1 2020 was jam packed with amazing features that have...

Read More