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Changing Tableau’s Repository Location
When you download Tableau Desktop, by default Tableau adds a file folder to your documents folder called “My Tableau Repository.” This folder contains data and options for your desktop application. In additio...Read Moreabout: Changing Tableau’s Repository Location -
Replacing All Links in a Word Document
Preparing documents for an accreditation visit can be a stressful task. It involves many people and lots of last minute edits. Your institution may have thought ahead and prepared a website or intranet site where the ind...Read Moreabout: Replacing All Links in a Word Document -
Using the Criteria Field in Microsoft Access
Many of us use Microsoft Access to extract data from Banner or other enterprise systems, or to store data that doesn’t fit in our enterprise system. This tip provides an overview of the criteria field in Access que...Read Moreabout: Using the Criteria Field in Microsoft Access -
Tip for Tableau Users
Analysts use visualizations to deliver complicated information in an easy to understand way. Dual axis function in Tableau helps users to be efficient with a message of visualization. Another name for a chart with a dual...Read Moreabout: Tip for Tableau Users -
Creating a Clear Slicer Button in Excel
Scenario: You are developing an Excel dashboard based off a Pivot table or tables and you have multiple slicers to allow different combinations of data disaggregation, as in the image below. Everyone oohs and ahs un...Read Moreabout: Creating a Clear Slicer Button in Excel
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