If you have been following along in this blog series, I’m sure you are starting to see how powerful SAQL can be joining data as we see fit, but there is more to the story. You can create new derived fields that we already touched upon in part 5 of this blog series, but let’s ...
Working with Einstein Analytics I often hear people finding the data manager the most challenging part to learn. Perhaps because when people work with dashboards in core Salesforce we don’t have to shape our data the same way, we simply need to understand what objects we want to use in our report or dashboard. There ...
Something new is coming to Einstein Analytics. Something you should pay attention to as it will change the way that you work with data. The most visible part of this new data platform is a new Data Prep editor. It’s more approachable and powerful featuring machine learning capabilities. Hints have been dropped at Dreamforce and ...
A little more than a year ago I sat out to demystify bindings (or interactions as they are being called from Spring 20). I wrote a blog series covering data selection, data serialization, and data manipulation functions. It turned out to be quite a few blogs and quite a few bindings as well. I figured ...
Custom maps in Einstein Analytics is a brilliant way of portraying your data. I’ve already done a few blogs on the matter (this and this), but all these blogs assume you have the map ready to go. Let’s have a look if you have found a map but it’s not quite ready yet. How do ...
I’ve heard more than once than bindings can be hard and confusing. And if I didn’t believe that, then I only have to look at the most viewed blogs I’ve written and my demystifying binding blog series is by far the winner. In the Spring 20 release, it has become a little bit easier to ...
Before getting started with creating first your Einstein Analytics Plus Stories, there are some things you need to think through and decide. Typically people are concerned about data, but we will save that for later. But even before rolling up your sleeves and finding and crunching data, the most important pre-creation task is the need ...
When I started working with Einstein Analytics in 2015 needless to say not many knew much about Einstein Analytics. In the past couple of years, the DataTribe as we call it has emerged and we have grown in numbers. I find many more being knowledgeable on Einstein Analytics in terms of visualization and data prep, ...
So I decided to fire up my old computer with a very old version of Adobe InDesign so I could go back in time and create an infographic answering the question “Are you ready to build your dashboard?”. If the answer was “No” to any of the questions I would recommend checking out the Einstein ...