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Hi everyone!
I’m currently looking for Tableau / Business Intelligence / Data Analyst opportunities in the US ( primarily east coast).
I have 6+ years of BI & Data Analytics experience which includes Tableau dashboard development, Tableau Server, SQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, Power BI, data modeling, KPI reporting, ETL, and reporting automation.
I do not require visa sponsorship.
If you know of any relevant positions or are able to refer me within your organization, I would sincerely appreciate it.
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Thank you to everyone in the community for your help and support!

Hey everyone! I was looking for a project to complete over my summer break and figured I'd turn the tracker over on r/Canadiancitizenship into an interactive Tableau dashboard to make it easier to explore our data. Would love to know your thoughts and any feedback on usability, accessibility, etc. (it is best viewed on a monitor, but depending on how useful folks find this, I may work on a mobile version/change up the resolution)

Dashboard Link

All PII (personally identifiable information) such as usernames, notes, documents sent, and other private/fields not necessary for data analysis have been scrubbed from the public data set. Huge credit to everyone who has contributed to the spreadsheet and made this dataset possible.

So I have a sql view with the field Store Name in it. Its in a published datasource on server.

For some reason at one point some idiot (it me) edited the published datasource and added a relationship to the dim store table. So if you use the published datasource you have Store Name twice.

I want to rectify this, but every report built is using the store name field from the relationship, which is the one I want to kill.

I've gone ahead and removed the relationship and renamed the remaining store name field to match what the previous one was. But all reports are broken with the cant find referenced field error. Is there something im missing? Any way to do this without widespread impact?

Hello! I hope I'm using the right tag. Ive been interning and am close to the end of my contract but I'm hoping to finish updating a few dashboards before leaving. I'm working on some old dashboards that are longer than they should be (as in the actual dashboard size height is too tall). There are many many floating objects, and no matter how i try to resize the dashboard, it reduces the size of all of the floating containers proportionately as well, not to mention it moves them all closer to the top of the page as far as I can tell. Is there any way to avoid this? If I can't find a way I may spend all of tomorrow trying to record the positions and dimensions of all of the objects, and then manually move everything back into place.

The custom size of the dashboard is "fixed" if that makes any difference, also I am working on a Mac.

Any tips to save some time on this would be greatly appreciated! My biggest concern is going ahead and adjusting everything tediously just to have someone ask it to be slightly longer or shorter lol.

This started about a month ago and randomly happens when we run our extracts. We increased server resources and updated our bridge clients to the latest version and are still getting this message randomly.

The refresh will fail one day, but then the same one will be successful the next day. It's driving me batty and not sure where else to look.

Any ideas here?

I'm using the Desktop version of Tableau Public and I've made my sheets and am creating my dashboard. I've realized that a lot of things need to be within containers to really have a good layout, but that it seems like it's hard to put things into a container if you set it up without one. Should you first plan the dashboard and know what container layout you will have first and set it up before creating the dashboard?

For instance, I made a map chart and put it on my dashboard within a container that has other charts. On the map, I did 2 custom float objects. I am now realizing that if I want to move the map, it won't bring the 2 floating objects on top. It seems like if I had put the map within it's own container, and so those floating objects are in it, that I can just move the container and everything will work.

Again for context, I'm using the Desktop version of Tableau Public so I know that it comes with less features so idk if this is something that makes it harder to work with?

I'm a data analyst, working with SQL, python, snowflake, dbt and airflow. I've worked with tableau too, but not extensively.

Is it worth doing tableau desktop cert? I've seen job postings specifically saying having it is a plus. Will it help stand out, or is it enough to be thorough with it and have a project or two?

I come from a Power BI background at a Microsoft shop. I have a lot of data engineering and analytics experience under my belt. Recently, I moved to a Tableau shop, and I am experiencing issues with the dashboard refreshes, based on what I was told by whoever handed this off to me. Basically, they said Tableau refreshes are based on the server’s capabilities, and the reports draw from our warehouse.

Coming from a Power BI background, once your warehouse refreshed, your Power BI refresh was instantaneous, and your dashboard being up to date quickly was dependent on your data pipeline refreshing. The only time you’d have issues was when you ran live SQL queries against the database, which could cause performance issues. So this is different from what I’m used to.

So I guess my question is: we do have a warehouse where the pipeline refreshes in minutes, but Tableau picking up the changes from the warehouse extract is supposed to refresh every business hour, from six to six. If I calculate it, we just get maybe four to six refreshes during business hours, as opposed to hourly refreshes.

I'm a data analyst, working with SQL, python, snowflake, dbt and airflow. I've worked with tableau too, but not extensively.

Is it worth doing tableau desktop cert? I've seen job postings specifically saying having it is a plus. Will it help stand out, or is it enough to be thorough with it and have a project or two?

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