Emre Motan, Big Fish Games

October 1st, 2014

ADVANCED TABLEAU

Agenda

Intro to Tableau Products, Users, How we use Tableau @ Big

Fish Demo – Using Tableau Data Extract API Demo – Dashboard Demo – Advanced Mapping Techniques Demo – R Integration Demo – Advanced Charts Tableau Server

About Emre

Business Intelligence Engineer @ Big Fish Games

Started Seattle BI Meetup in April 2014 Originally from Chicago; ran meetup

there Advise UW BI Certificate Program Recently added to TDWI Seattle board

Interested in any of these? Let me know!

Intro to Tableau

Tableau products: Tableau Desktop Tableau Server Tableau Online (Cloud) Tableau Public Tableau Reader

Big Fish uses Tableau extensively As primary visualization and report delivery

platform Analysis stills happens in Excel, R, SQL client…

Tableau Data Extract API

Demo

Dashboards & Story Boarding

Demo

Advanced Mapping Techniques

Demo

Advanced Charts

Demo

R Integration

Demo

Tableau Server

Quick tour Scalability:

Whitepaper available on Tableau’s site Tableau Public is basically a large Tableau

Server Can have clusters of Tableau Server nodes

Javascript API available if you want to build your own portal

Edit mode is powerful but also limited

Tableau Server - Notes

Tabcmd – need to find in Tableau Server installation directory C:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\

8.2\extras Caching – Can change caching settings

in Tableau Server Configuration. Can set to “only refresh when asked”, “refresh after X minutes”, and “never cache”.

Tabcmd

I could see using “refreshextracts” as part of ETL to refresh a workbook’s extract at appropriate time rather than on a schedule.

Tabadmin

Emre Motan, Big Fish Games

October 1st, 2014

THANK YOU!

Resources

Tableau On-Demand Training Tableau Public has visualizations for

inspiration Amazon Pluralsight has additional training

(monthly fee – but I have “one month free” vouchers)

Tableau Whitepapers