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Using Tableau with PowerPivot
• Author: Jen Stirrup• Twitter: @jenstirrup
• Email: [email protected]• www.jenstirrup.com
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Agenda
• Capabilities of Microsoft PowerPivot and Tableau• Creating and sharing visualizations with drag and drop ease
• Re-doing PowerPivot samples in Tableau
• Scalable and empowering access to data
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PowerPivot
• What is PowerPivot?• Two types:
• Free Excel add-in• Sharepoint presentation layer
• Strength: Vertipaq column-oriented data store• Scaleability
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Tableau
• Tableau’s strengths:• Visualisation, visualisation, visualisation! • ease-of-use for business users• Leveraging the power of DAX to build
complex calculations• In itself, low reliance on IT
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Tableau & PowerPivot
• The key advantage is that business users have the power of analysing their own data; • no requirement to go to IT• Create DAX expressions in PowerPivot• Tableau then consumes the DAX expressions
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Demos
• PowerPivot sample visualisations are not best practice
• We will re-visualise the sample PowerPivot visualisations in Tableau• Demonstrate rapid-fire data visualisation
improvements• Visualisations in accordance with data visualisation
best practices
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Tableau Stand Alone
• Oracle• SQL
Server• Teradata
Data Sources TableauAnalysis Business
UserBI
Tableau via PowerPivot and Sharepoint
•Oracle•SQL Server•Teradata
Data Sources
•PowerPivot•SharepointAnalysis TableauAnalysis Business UserBI
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PowerPivot Sample Dashboard
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PowerPivot Sample
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Empowering Users
• The key advantage is that business users have the power of analysing their own data in PowerPivot
• And then visualising their data, in accordance with data visualisation best practices, using Tableau
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Tips
• If the dataset contains > 1 million sets of data, then it’s more efficient to use x64 PowerPivot
• If the enterprise doesn’t use Sharepoint, then the workbooks can be shared using Tableau Server
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Summary
• PowerPivot Reference: Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010 by Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari
• Questions
• Author: Jen Stirrup• Twitter: @jenstirrup• Email: [email protected]
• www.tableausoftware.com
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