Category Archives: Alteryx

How to Automate Data Refresh Operations to Tableau Server with Alteryx

Posted on 2016-01-05 by Frederic

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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Create a delta extractor for MongoDB with Alteryx

Posted on 2015-12-18 by Frederic

Did you get excited by the MongoDB + Tableau announcement about the availability of a BI Connector to extract from MongoDB and convert BSON documents on the fly to the relational format Tableau requires? Then you might have been a bit … Continue reading →

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Report and Analyze Marketing Campaigns ROI

Posted on 2015-12-01 by Frederic

Marketing ROI is a vast topic, top of mind for most CMOs who feel accountable for their budget. Yet, that topic is not well established academically, and even less technically. A simple search on Amazon shows some books addressing the … Continue reading →

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How to easily Document your Tableau Reports

Posted on 2015-11-03 by Frederic

Every shiny Tableau dashboard comes, or should come, with less glamorous strings attached: documentation… If you want to share the Tableau love, you ought to document how you drove from a data source to a new indicator, and ultimately to … Continue reading →

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Using the new REST API Marketo Connector in Alteryx

Posted on 2015-10-05 by Frederic

“Why would I need to use a Marketo connector in the first place? The reports, called Smart Lists I can whip together in Marketo in a matter of seconds should be good enough? They handle large volumes of transactions pretty … Continue reading →

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