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Time for some tools
TC24 really put me into the spirit of doing more coding. It’s something that I’ve always enjoyed doing and it’s helped me get into the
Why am I not a Tableau Ambassador in 2023? (the sequel)
I’ve been thinking about this blog post for a while, as a follow-up to my previous blog post: Why am I not a Tableau Ambassador
Remotely triggering a refresh in Tableau
A few years ago I wrote this code to trigger a refresh of a published data source (PDS) in Tableau. I’ve adapted the code over
Why am I not a Tableau Ambassador in 2023?
A warning to start, this is going to be difficult for me to write and it’s probably going to be difficult to read (for you,
Creating a Personal Access Token (PAT) in Tableau Cloud
With Tableau enforcing the MFA logins for Tableau Cloud, it’s important to switch to another method of authentication when you have scripts that interact with
Python to Tableau Hyper publishing
Using Python, you can automate the publishing of new (or updated) data to Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud. A lot of my clients use Tableau
Taking a great Tableau screenshot
I see a lot of people on the Tableau Community Forums, Reddit, Discord, Stack Overflow (and probably a few others that I frequent) posting screenshots
Monitoring Snowflake use and costs in Tableau
A quick intro Snowflake has been around for a number of years now, it’s an awesome cloud-hosted database that works very easily with Tableau. I
A tale of two Certifications
A little bit of background info This probably doesn’t sound very good, but this story started almost a year ago when I decided to sit
Pivotting data for easier use in Tableau
I just answered this question on the Tableau Community Forums : https://community.tableau.com/message/1082243 It’s the typical problem of having the data created as a cross-tab (ie