😀 Welcome 😀

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

👋 Meet a Community Member 👋

John LeMay (University of North Alabama)

Meet John LeMay from the University of North Alabama, and hear how he learned and uses Tableau to build dashboards like this Census dashboard. (We may ask if John's ever come face to face with Leo III, the only live--yes, LIVE--lion mascot in the country who lived on a college campus until this year.)

John LeMay: LinkedIn

UNA Institutional Research: Website | Tableau Public

• Responsive dashboard design to produce dashboards like this one by Rosa Mariana
• Tableau's Order of Operations, including Zdravka Bratuhtcheva's overview

🧛‍♀️ Tips & Tricks: Ginny the Prep Slayer 🦇

Ginny Moench (Appalachian State University)

Ginny's going to slay you with some Prep tips. Will her tips and tricks be the silver bullet that makes Tableau Prep your data prep tool?

Find Ginny Moench on: Tableau Public | LinkedIn | X (formerly Twitter) 

• Preppin' Data Community Project
• Tableau Prep Tableau User Group

😱 Under the <Dash/>{"boardwalk": "Roshni vs JSON"} 🤖

Roshni Gohil (MIT)

Get ready for some Halloween-ey SQL...

Oh, wait, our speaker informs us that we're not going to talk (much) SQL. This is a sequel presentation. We'll be following up on some of what we sped through last month: the XML source code underneath Tableau Desktop .twb files and the JSON source code underneathTableau Prep .tfl files.

We'll cover some use cases for looking at the source code, how to make sense of the underlying structures in both types of files, and how carefully editing the code (at your own risk; always make a backup first!) can help you update Tableau workbooks and flows more efficiently.

Some Tableau XML resources

• "Fully” Documented Workbook
• Illustrated XML Example

Tableau Performance: Designing Efficient Workbooks whitepaper

💬 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.)

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