Name: Tableau Data Sources/Desktop Performance
Start: 2018-05-17T13:30:00-04:00
End: 2018-05-17T15:30:00-04:00
Location: Atlas Service Center Conference Room (E17-134)

Tableau Data Sources/Desktop Performance

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 commonly used data source. 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 visualizaiton 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>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.

Atlas Service Center Conference Room (E17-134)

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