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One thing that works very well for me is reading, especially lessons learned and case studies from practitioners. A book I frequently turn back to is Making Things Happen by Scott Berkun (he was a Microsoft program manager who shipped things like Visual…
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Of course, you can SEE the version and build number of Tableau Desktop from the Help menu, with Help > About. But usually you want to give this information to someone else – for example, pasting it into an email or support…
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Tableau releases maintenance updates on a regular basis – about monthly. Since Tableau connects to dozens of kinds of datasources, which are themselves constantly updated, it’s always a good idea to stay on the latest maintenance release for your Tableau…
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Color is tremendously powerful in creating data visualizations. Tableau allows you to create custom color palettes. And usually people do this by: Find an image with the colors you want to use Use an eyedropper color picker tool; select each…
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I like to listen to music while I’m working. In fact, I like to listen to music all the time. Especially good music. Here’s some: For anyone interested, I put together a 6+ hours Spotify (yeah yeah) playlist of my…
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Do you have multiple versions of Tableau Desktop installed on your Mac? You might be beta testing the new version, but still need to work with a current version for production work. Wish you could just right-click on a .twbx and choose on the fly which…
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Tableau Desktop’s .twbx packaged workbook files are archives which contain both a .twb workbook file and the data. On Windows, Tableau Desktop installs an “Unpackage Workbook” command which is available by right-clicking any .twbx file. And Tableau Desktop is coming to the…
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Back in the early days of PC’s, comparing performance was relatively easy: just look at the processor and the clock speed. A 486/33 (with an Intel 80486 CPU running at 33mHz) will perform calculations about twice as fast as a…
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Web developers and users notoriously hate old Internet Explorer versions. You might think from the web that as of April 8, 2014, Internet Explorer is going to be unsupported, end of life, on its way out, an ex-browser, going the way…
