Category Archives: Tableau

How to Load Data in Bulk to Snowflake with Alteryx

Posted on 31 October, 2017 by Frederic

Why a post about Snowflake? What does Alteryx and Tableau have to do with Snowflake? Here is some context: as I was planning to launch my Data Lake consulting business, which is now launched, I was looking for a place … Continue reading →

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Access and Process Leads Activity History with Marketo Bulk Extract APIs

Posted on 18 July, 2017 by Frederic

Marketo’s core expertise is Marketing Automation, a software category it pioneered along with Eloqua, Pardot, Hubspot, Adobe and now 208 additional vendors and counting. Marketo still holds a solid market share, especially on the West Coast, especially in Tech companies. … Continue reading →

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Turn text column reviews into a Tableau word cloud

Posted on 13 June, 2017 by Frederic

After getting my hands on a data set containing a large number of user reviews in a column, I was trying to get an overall sense of those reviews with a quick glance. Visually, there are several options to get … Continue reading →

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YoY YTD dashboard made easy in Tableau

Posted on 31 May, 2017 by Frederic

When using a set of dated transactions which gets updated, how do you provide a report which will track visually a monthly  YoY (Year over Year) YTD (Year to Date) comparison? This needs to work at the day level, to … Continue reading →

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10 Tricks to adopt Redshift In-DB

Posted on 1 December, 2016 by Frederic

If you are still manipulating data in Excel, why should you care about In-DB and Redshift? Whether you are accessing your Redshift data through Alteryx or through Tableau, knowing how to prepare your data within Redshift, with In-DB tool in … Continue reading →

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