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This means that Tableau Public is rather a no-go since not all live connections are available there.

How do you want the users to access your viz? Is it just you, do you have a Tableau Server that you could publish your viz to? The connection to data will have to be a live connection since we want the viz to use the latest data. Thankfully, we have an Alteryx Server so we could go with that. With the Scheduler, you’d have to make sure your local computer is running. The advantage of Alteryx Server is that you set it once and don’t really have to worry about it. To schedule an Alteryx workflow you’ll either need Alteryx Server or Scheduler (read more here). Logisticsįirst of all, think about the final outcome. OK, so how do you go about it? (It might be a lengthy post so if you’re not interested in the journey but the solution, you can head to the end of the post.) Step 1. Especially that I think it’s an important thing to know. This turned out to be quite a hefty task actually and so I decided to share it with you. By the end of Thursday, Joe and I had our workflow ready, we just needed to upload the data to Tableau Server so that we could have a live connection there. This project was quite nice because we were working in pairs and we had Thursday afternoon and Friday morning for it. The second part was to schedule the workflow to run daily and set up a dashboard that would use the updated data, so that whenever you access the dashboard you know it’s the latest information. If you wonder how to download zip files and un-zip them automatically in Alteryx, look out for my next blog posts.) (Although there was a bit that I’ll blog about. The first part of the project was to web scrape a meteorological institute website to get weather data for the Netherlands.

It is actually something I’ve learnt during our Friday project of web scraping and API week with Andre. via web scraping or APIs) and you want your visualisations to be up-to-date without the need of you running the data workflow manually. Let’s say you are gathering your own data (eg. This is something with a lot of potential.

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