by Christopher Ktenas | Oct 2, 2020 | Christopher Ktenas
In the previous blog post, I explored how to connect to the Tableau PostgreSQL port 8060 (a database that stores tableau server metadata) using Alteryx. I also went through some examples of why you would want to connect through Alteryx. For today’s blog, I wanted to...
by Christopher Ktenas | Oct 1, 2020 | Christopher Ktenas
Alteryx and Tableau are a match made in heaven, and for today’s blog, I will showcase just one other beautiful pairing of these. Connecting to Tableau metadata (or more broadly the process of connecting to databases). Before we go through the process, however, I want...
by Christopher Ktenas | Sep 29, 2020 | Christopher Ktenas
Over the past few months, one of my responsibilities at the Data School Down Under has been to review Tableau dashboards. This task has raised the question of how I approach building Tableau dashboards. In today’s blog, I wanted to share one of my preferred...
by Christopher Ktenas | Sep 16, 2020 | Christopher Ktenas
Prescriptive Analytics, a buzz word like predictive analytics, aims to find the “best” solution to a problem, given a number of constraints (business rules). Within Alteryx, there is a handful of sample workflows to help understand different prescriptive optimization...
by Christopher Ktenas | Mar 27, 2020 | Christopher Ktenas
Today is cohort five’s final day of training, and our final agenda like all data schoolers is to write a reflection on our 4 months of training. In a world currently filled with uncertainty, I am thrilled to say that my time training was the best decision I’ve ever...
by Christopher Ktenas | Mar 27, 2020 | Christopher Ktenas
Unlike Alteryx Designer which has an extensive list of spatial tools and equations, Tableau offers equations with spatial capabilities that are more targeted towards the simple visualization side of analysis: Distance, Makepoint and Makeline under the spatial...
