Meet Slack-First Analytics

Meet Slack-First Analytics
At Tableau, we know that data, and insights from data, can help answer questions that ultimately drive business growth. But in order for this to happen, all business users need to be able to access the insights in a simple way, right within their workflows. We have witnessed this with embedded Tableau CRM dashboards and ...

Einstein Discovery in Tableau – Try it for Yourself

Einstein Discovery in Tableau – Try it for Yourself
Einstein Discovery empowers businesses to explore patterns, trends, and correlations in their historical data with the help of auto-generated machine learning models. While understanding the past is helpful, Einstein Discovery machine learning models can be deployed and operationalized to predict future outcomes – all without ever writing a single line of code. Starting with the ...

Dataflow performance with field usage analysis

Some of you might have long running dataflows that you for many reasons want to have running faster. But how you approach this can be time-consuming. Siva Teja Ghattepally has provided a brilliant webinar giving techniques to optimize the dataflow performance. To aid this process Mohan Chinnappan‘s analytics plugin provides a great command that allows you ...

Field usage analysis

I cannot tell you how excited I am to be writing this blog and I think you will find this immensely helpful especially if you have had Tableau CRM (formerly Einstein Analytics) for a while. I find many users end up creating a lot of dataflows and bringing in a lot of fields because they ...

Uploading datasets via CLI

A while back I wrote a blog on how to export datasets from Tableau CRM (Einstein Analytics) using Salesforce CLI and a plugin from Mohan Chinnappan. It seems Mohan’s plugin was well received and he has since expanded on it to upload csv files to Tableau CRM. This is powerful if you want to update ...