Welcome

Log in, grab a treat, and take a comfortable seat.

Meet a Community Member

Francesca Gilkey (Endicott College)

Currently the Director of Institutional Research at Endicott College, Francesca Gilkey has a decade of experience in Higher Ed at public and private colleges across the Northeast. We can't wait to hear some of how she uses Tableau Prep to clean and build data sources!

• Francesca;s links:
• LinkedIn
• Heart viz
  
• Resources Francesca mentioned
• Tableau's free training videos
• Anna Kourouniotis's Overlay instruction in Tableau
• Creating a Heart in Tableau
• Searchable glossary (2nd tab)
  
• Lightning Round vizzes
• Mateusz Karmalski's Duck Hunt
• What the Duck is Jeep Ducking? (MotorTrend)
• Rubber duck debugging (Wikipedia)
• Matt Francis's How a Rubber Duck Can Improve Your Tableau Viz
  
• Halloween Pet Costumes infographic
• Saif M Mohammad's NRC Word Emotion Association Lexicon
• Sterling Weed's Breakfast in America
• Andy Kriebel's Dear Data: Compliments
• Stephen Bell's White Mountain 4000 Footers
• Ryan Kennedy's Pie Chart Art
• Sankalp Jain's Healthcare Data Breaches

Can I Tableau that?

If you're a newbie or feel like a newbie (don't we all, sometimes!), and have a question about something and aren't sure it can be done in Tableau, Slack us and we'll pull a question to tackle during the meeting!

• "" (empty double-quotes) in Tableau
• We have no idea what to call the "" (empty double-quotes) technique. As a result, it is extremely hard to search for resources. Sorry.
• Andrew Drinkwater's Using Placeholders demo workbook
• Other blank characters
• Flerlage Twins: 5 Hacks for using Blank Characters in Tableau
• How to create an empty column name in Tableau - a variation with the zero-width blank character
• Tableau documentation on renaming a measure

Enrollment Dashboards for Budget Projections

Chengbo Yin (Rutgers University - Newark)

With a new year, comes a new budget. Chengo Yin from Rutgers - Newark will share how his office is using Fall 2023 enrollment dashboards to help with the Fall 2024 (yes, we're in 2024!) budget projections. 

• The expand/collapse design and Tableau implementation:
• Louis Yu's 10 hacks to make your dashboard GREAT!
• Tableau documentation on replacing a sheet/swapping sheets

Wrap-up and Chat

We'll close out the meeting with info about our next HETUG meeting, and then open up breakout rooms to chat! (Chat may extend past 4:30pm Eastern.)

Can't get enough HETUG?

Want to present?

Have a quick tip to share? A longer presentation? Want us to interview you in our Meet a Community Member segment? We want to hear from you!

Present at HETUG!

Join the conversation on Slack!

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Have questions about HETUG?

Contact the HETUG co-leads in the #higher_ed_tug Slack channel, or email us at higheredtug@gmail.com.