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Gordon Rose

Gordon is a Sales Consultant with Tableau in the New England region. Gordon has worked with data most of his professional career (dBase III, anyone?). Thanks to Tableau, data – and working with people with data – have never been more fun.

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    Tableau Data Extracts - Tips, Tricks and Best Practices

    Gordon Rose August 15, 2014
    This is the last post in a three-part series about Tableau data extracts. In the first post, we looked at how Tableau data extracts are built and used by Tableau. In the second, we looked at why you would want to use TDEs and some sample use cases. In this last post, we will look at tips, techniques and best practices.
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    Why use Tableau Data Extracts

    Gordon Rose July 31, 2014

    This is part two in a three-part series about Tableau Data Extracts. In the first post, we looked at how Tableau Data Extracts are built and used by Tableau. If the content of the first post did not already sell you on the benefits of TDEs, then here are several reasons that Tableau Data Extracts (TDEs) are valuable—even essential—to Tableau users:

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    Understanding Tableau Data Extracts

    Gordon Rose July 18, 2014
    This is the first post in a three-part series that will take a large amount of information about Tableau data extracts, highly compress that information, and place it into memory — yours.