Reading Time: 3 minutes Tableau has Python packages for working with its Hyper API, both for native operations (tableauhyperapi) or through pandas (pantab). With the recently announced public preview of Microsoft Fabric, you can also easily work with data sourced…
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Have You Completed a WORKOUT WEDNESDAY for Tableau or Power BI?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Workout Wednesday is a weekly challenge that has been running for a few years for Tableau users at http://www.workout-wednesday.com/. Community contributors build a sample, provide requirements for you to follow to recreate it, and often post…
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Four Core Differences Between the Tableau and Power BI Data Models
Reading Time: 4 minutes Tableau recently released a logical data model in version 2020.2, while a similar semantic layer has been core to Microsoft Power BI since its inception. Power BI’s “tabular” model has a shared lineage across Microsoft products…
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Tableau to Power BI: Running Total and Other Running Calculations
Reading Time: 6 minutes One of the conveniences of Tableau is the ability to easily create “running” totals or other aggregations. These table calculations can be handled through the user interface. One of the questions that I sometimes receive from…
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Tableau to Power BI: Dashboard Layout & Size
Reading Time: 5 minutes The distribution of various charts and other objects on a canvas is a key part of creating meaningful data visualization. For anyone coming to Power BI from Tableau, what might they expect the experience to be…
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