Monday, 2 May 2016

Which new features added in V9?


What is the difference between tableau 8.0 and 9.0 versions
1) Visual Analytic's 

a) Type-in shelves




b) Free-form Calculation




c) Drag & Drop Calculation


d) New Calculation Editor 




e) Instant reference line & trend line 

g) Geographic Search 

2) Speed (3-4 times faster than current version) a) Muti-core Query Execution b) Vector Operations Support c) Parallel Queries d) Continuous Tool-tips e) Responsive Pan & Zoom f) Persisted Query Cache

3) Data Preparation a) Uninviting b) Web Service API Connector c) Splitting of Data automatically

4) Enterprise a) Now on server with a simple ease you can provide credentials to different business users on fly b) Server will be more secure & faster

5) Mobile a) Tableau has started a program for mobile users & they named it as “Project Elastic”. b) It is more faster & user friendly c) Now you do not need internet connection for running your dashboard on mobile or tablets.


What is the difference between tableau 7.0 and 8.0 versions
New visualizations are introduced like treemap, bubble chart and box and whisker plot
We can copy worksheet directly from one workbook to another workbook
Introduced R script.
Story, it is new report type it was introduced in 8.2.
We can customize the “Tool Bar” in 8.2.


Tableau 8.1 to 8.2 

The following new features are added in 8.2 Release:
1) Tree Maps, Bubble,
2) Accessing Tableau Server dashboards through a proxy server using Tableau Mobile would sometimes result in connection errors.
3) 8.2 Supports MAC.
4) Story Points
5) Increased Map features in this release.
6) Visual Data window.




What are the major differences between tableau version 7.0 and tableau version 8.0?

•1) New visualizations are introduced like tree-maps, bubble chart and box, 
whisker plot •We can copy worksheet directly from one workbook to another workbook.

2) •Introduced R script

3) Visualizing the Relationships among the Tables.

If we want to compare values over time, which chart is the best option?


there 2 Different kind of charts are best viz to show the Trend Charts

1) Line Chart



  • 2) Area Chart



Heat map: A heat map is a great way to compare members of a Dimension using color and size. In this, 
you can compare two different measures.







Tree Map: It is a very powerful visualization, particularly for illustrating hierarchical (tree-structured) data and part-to-whole relationships.



How to add Custom Color Palette in Tableau?

Tableau offers three types of color palettes: categorical, sequential, and diverging. You can create your own custom color palette by modifying the Preferences.tps file that comes with Tableau Desktop. The Preferences.tps file is located in the My Tableau Repository. The preferences file is a basic XML file that you can open in a text editor to modify. In tableau 9.0 version there is a color picker option.

TDE Limitations

1) TDE file size limitations is 2 GB to 200 GB.

2) Very tough algorithms are used to compress the data size in Tableau TDE .

3) TDE converts the data size into 0.1-2% of original data size.
it means 4 GB of Data in Oracle convert into 500 MB. 

Limitations of TDE (Extracts)


1) TDE file limitaion is