For years, Tableau developers have lived in an awkward middle ground. Tableau developers have done great work only to hear, “That calculation should really be in the data source” or maybe, “Why is this dashboard so slow?” To which the answer, in frustration, is often, "I would… if I
When working with people who are new to Tableau and using it in enterprise environments, I'm usually asked the following within a few weeks of them starting: “Wait… are you saying I can't build relationships on top of published data sources?” The natural tendency, especially for
Part 2 of 2 - Multiple base tables Part 1 of this series explained how Tableau data models with a single base table create joins. This post will explain the differences with multi-fact relationship models, that is, models with more than one base table. To follow along with this post,
Part 1 of 2 - Single base table Tableau released the relationships feature (aka object model; aka the noodle) six (6) years ago in the 2020.2. In my experience, it is still an underused feature because people don't understand how the model leads to the creation of