Tableau Tip Tuesday – Splitting Metrics on Dimension Values
I recently came across this question on the Tableau forums. Serendipitously, I had just started doing this and had worked out the rather simple solution. Because someone other than me had raised the question, I thought it might be worth sharing here. The Problem: Splitting a measure into discrete, sub-measures based on the values of a dimension. The Why: Lets say you have a measure ‘Sales’ and a dimension ‘Product Type’ (this should sound familiar as its from the ‘Coffee Chain’ sample DB). Further assume that you want to do some parts-to-whole comparison which could be achieved via a table calculation but there are

Step Past the “WTF” Adobe-Omniture Moment
According to Twitter, I had the same immediate reaction to the Adobe Omniture acquisition that just about everyone else had: WTF? How does this make sense. I immediately tweeted that. Ok next time, think before you tweet. Adobe is more than Flash. Heck, before Adobe acquired Macromedia it wasn’t anything approaching Flash. Don’t get me wrong, Flash is important. How much of online video is distributed via Flash? A significant majority I imagine. Flash is also used for interactive web pages and light gaming. Oh, it’s also developing into a desktop connected-application platform via Flex. Integrating Omniture (or any other measurement technology) int