Category: Blog
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How to load data to Hadoop with Alteryx and visualize with Tableau via Impala?
This YouTube tutorial shows you a handy way to load your Excel data to Cloudera Hadoop with Alteryx, and how to see and understand your data even faster with Tableau connected to Impala. The same tool chain to load and access data can be used with Hive (eg. on Hortonworks) or Spark SQL (eg. on MapR).…
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How to use a custom Mapbox map as your background map in Tableau
Tableau now comes with more geographical data built in, including updated US congressional districts (CD), local name synonyms for world capitals, Japanese postal, and Mapbox integration. I’ve to admit I really love Mapbox! What is Mapbox? Mapbox is an online repository of custom-built maps for your needs and enables you to create the perfect map to…
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How to speed up Tableau by using Performance Recordings
Getting your dashboards up to speed can be quite difficult if you don’t know where the latency is situated. The first and most important rule about making workbooks more efficient is to understand that if it loads slowly in Desktop on your computer, then it will be slow on the server too once it is…
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Joining Tableau: My First Impressions and Journey with a Seattle-Based Analytics Startup Company
Joining Tableau has been an exhilarating step in my career. As a data enthusiast and very early adopter of Tableau, I was excited to join Tableau, a Seattle-based startup company that is coming up with the next level of self-service data analytics software – compared to classic BI software. A New Chapter: Tableau’s Frankfurt Office…
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Generation Y: Was erwarten Digital Natives von der Arbeitswelt?
Die Generation Y, zwischen 1977 und 1998 geboren, gilt als sehr gut ausgebildet. Sie sind als Digital Natives in der digitalen Welt aufgewachsen und rasche Veränderung gewohnt. Sie gelten als kreativ und technikaffin. Wären dies nicht die idealen Kandidaten, um die Digitalisierung bei Banken voranzutreiben, um Datenschätze mittels Data Science zu erschließen und um Fachwissen,…
