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Here I will be posting my experiences on Business Intelligence including Business Intelligence Analytics, SAP Business Objects, Microstrategy, Tableau, Hyperion, and so on

Corona Virus Updates with Tableau.

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Corona Virus Epidemic Updates using Tableau Visualization

Sadly I put this dashboard together to keep track of the updates on Corona Virus epidemic. As Tableau Public does not allow live updates, I'll do my best to update the data extracts daily.
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California DMV Locations with Tableau.

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Unfortunately, DMV California does not provide a proper map for its locations. This is what you get:
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Tableau Dashboard Performance.

Sunday, August 26, 2018

When you start complex dashboards for bigger scale of audience, there are some issues you need to be careful in terms of delivering a high performance dashboard on Tableau.
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Tableau Dashboard with Sliding/Collapsing Menu.

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Yesterday, someone asked me for the idea of a dashbard with sliding / collapsing menu. It seems like it was a quite common question within Tableau Community. So I have decided to make an easy to understand version of it for all who need it.
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Creating Multi-Language Tableau Dashboard.

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

It is commonly needed to have multi-language supported dashboards. Tableau does not have build in multi-language or dictionary support for the dashboards but you can achieve this with parameters and calculated field. It just requires your dedication on creating the translations with the calculated fields.
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My Tableau Public Profile.

Thursday, August 17, 2017

From now on, I have started using my Tableau Public Profile more efficiently. Not only will I share my visual designs on Tableau, also I will be sharing some dashboards where I have found some work arounds and tricks.
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My Tableau Server 10 Qualified Associate Certificate Exam Experience.

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

As of August 15, I have also obtained my Tableau Server 10 Qualified Associate Certification. I will be honest, this was my second trial as I failed the first attempt with one point only! Also I would like to share some of my experience with the examination that I think it would be helpful for future exam takers. Especially for Tableau Server test because I barely find any resources for this one online.
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Tableau Parallel Query Session for Oracle and Exadata.

Friday, August 4, 2017

By default Exadata receives queries in serial rather than parallel. And you might want to execute your queries in parallel. To achieve this you have basically 3 options:
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My Tableau Desktop 10 Qualified Associate Certificate Exam Experience.

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

As of July 17, I have obtained my Tableau Desktop 10 Qualified Associate Certification. Here, I would like to share some of my experience with the examination that I think it would be helpful for future exam takers.
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Tableau User Filters and Security.

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

I have just attended a webinar on Tableau Server and I always wonder the security issue. Because most of the time, you publish your report to public but you only want certaion groups to access certaion data within reports as the whole report may contain sensitive information.
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SAP BusinessObjects Central Management Console User Security.

Friday, February 12, 2016

Here you can find how to set up your security on Central Management Console of SAP Business Objects
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How to get multiple values into one cell.

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Here I would like to describe how to get multiple values from rows into one single cell as a comma separated list in 4 steps with 4 variables
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Working with Page Layout.

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Here I would like to share a great and valuable experience I have had today. I was trying to show the gridlines on design view for easier page layout design. And I have been through a lot with a great java error at the end.
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How to handle #MULTIVALUE on Business Objects.

Thursday, December 24, 2015

Here I will like to convey one of my work around to handle MULTIVALUE warning or you can say error.
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Working with Functions.

Thursday, December 17, 2015

In this article I would like to show you how much more you can do with the regular functions of Business Objects.
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Dealing with Time Stamp on Date Time Prompts.

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

When you are dealing with the date time prompts, you may most likely want to remove the time stamp.
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