Category Archives: Tableau

Customer Cohorts and Product Sequence with orders data

Posted on 25 August, 2020 by Frederic

Whether you work in B2B or B2C, getting a better understanding of customer or account transactions in sequence is core. Customer cohorts will show you how well you are doing acquiring new customers, but also do they conduct repeat business … Continue reading →

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Easy Fuzzy Match on Names in Tableau with SQL

Posted on 14 July, 2020 by Frederic

Finding duplicate entities at scale in large databases using only names coming from free text boxes is always a challenge in Marketing, common in B2C, often ignored in B2B. Let’s take a simple scenario: I have a very long list … Continue reading →

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How to Import SFDC Recursive Hierarchies to Tableau

Posted on 7 May, 2020 by Frederic

If you have dealt with hierarchies from Salesforce (SFDC), or from most normalized transactional systems, you have faced some challenges to use those hierarchies in Tableau. Those systems treat hierarchies as a recursive model, storing Parent to Child relationships in … Continue reading →

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Snowflake Summit 2019 Debrief

Posted on 11 June, 2019 by Frederic

I was very excited at the thought of attending the first edition of the Snowflake customer event In San Francisco last week, and the event did deliver…

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TC18 Tableau Conference Highlights

Posted on 4 November, 2018 by Frederic

I skipped the Tableau conference last year as it was taking place in Vegas, and that is usually not a good experience, even without crowd shooters. I was happy to partake again this year to TC18, which took place in … Continue reading →

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