Name: Tableau Data Sources/Desktop Performance - June 2019
Start: 2019-06-20T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2019-06-20T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 8-119

Tableau Data Sources/Desktop Performance - June 2019

George Roch - g_roch@mit.edu

This month's Third Thursday session will cover Tableau data sources and desktop performance. We will cover a couple of commonly used data sources. Specifically, what they are, how to set them up, how to publish and how to refresh the data. The data source used will directly impact your visualization performance. So, we will also discuss desktop performance during this session. 
 
The topics we are planning on covering are: 
Data Sources
<UL>
<LI>Warehouse</LI>
<LI>Excel</LI>
<LI>Tableau Data Extract</LI>
<LI>Data Blending</LI>
<LI>Live Feed vs Extract </LI>
</UL>
Publishing/Refreshing Data
<UL>
<LI>Live Database Connection</LI>
<LI>Extracts</LI>
<LI>Packaged Workbooks (twbx)</LI>
</UL>
Desktop Performance
<UL>
<LI>Extracts vs Live</LI>
<LI>Joins</LI>
<LI>Calculations</LI>
<LI>Filters
<UL>
<LI>Source vs in report</LI>
<LI>Hierarchies like report type code and profit center</LI>
<LI>Time</LI>
<LI>Filters for dev vs prod</LI>
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
This session is open for MIT employees. 
*Please note a change to our start time. We will be meeting at 2:00 pm, not 1:30pm.

8-119

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