Tag Archives: Alteryx

Overcome 10 Excel limitations with Alteryx

Various sources estimate that Excel has between 750 million and 1 billion users worldwide. Odds are that the vast majority of analysts start manipulating data with Excel. Beyond its ubiquity, and from my days of analytics at Microsoft, I have … Continue reading

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Getting Started with Alteryx and Tableau

This post will finally address a topic a bit overdue for this blog: How to get started with the powerful combo of Alteryx + Tableau. If you are reading this post, you necessarily belong to one of those categories: New … Continue reading

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Automate Target to Date Attainment

This post is an extension of the previously covered topic: Display optional business Targets to your Actuals in Tableau The business scenario used to introduce the topic in the previous post was kept basic, on purpose. I’d like to introduce … Continue reading

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Upload directly to Tableau Server from Alteryx

Since I posted last June on automating Tableau operations using Alteryx, new versions of Alteryx (V10 + V10.1) and Tableau (V9.1 + V9.2) got released. That post remains relevant as ever, but a new feature is worth a separate update: the great Information Labs Upload … Continue reading

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How to Automate Data Refresh Operations to Tableau Server with Alteryx

new Alteryx Macro to upload to Tableau Server and Online directly> So you built a kick-ass visualization in Tableau, which reads from a tidy single TDE file you obtained, after you blended in Alteryx several data sources and performed complex … Continue reading

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