Our favorite data visualization tool continues to release major improvements – and we’re excited! The PMG Analytics team had an opportunity to see what Tableau has cooking for their next release at the Tableau Conference 2017. With the upcoming release of Tableau 10.5, it is increasingly apparent that Tableau is evolving from a specialty application […]
I’ve run into this issue a couple of times during my time at PMG. I’ve used R to perform some kind of analysis, forecasting, clustering, etc., and I need to get the result into our database so anyone on our analytics team could use the output in a SQL query or connect to it in […]
There is a bit of misconception about how Tableau calculates average numbers. I have seen analysts struggle with this seemingly easy calculation. Let’s use Tableau Superstore data and calculate Average Sales by Weekday. The common way would be to drop the date into rows field and then use AVG Sales calculation, like below. The problem […]