This year marks the 3-year anniversary of Ohio State’s Tableau implementation. The Data and Analytics team surveyed leaders and stakeholders in January to gather data about Ohio State’s last three years of Tableau use. Check out the full post for an initial overview of results that will factor into future planning and the continual service improvement of Tableau.
This year marks the 3-year anniversary of Ohio State’s Tableau implementation. The Data and Analytics team surveyed leaders and stakeholders in January to gather data about Ohio State’s last three years of Tableau use. Check out the full post for an initial overview of results that will factor into future planning and the continual service improvement of Tableau.
As shared in October , progress continues on the retirement of the legacy reporting systems tied to PeopleSoft HR and Finance, and will be complete at the end of calendar year 2021. In preparation for the shutdown, multiple activities have been completed or are ongoing to ensure that business and data analysts will have access to legacy data as needed. See the full post for more details and additional activity highlights.
The first Tableau User Group (TUG) meeting for the 2021/2022 academic year will be held on Thursday, October 21, 2021 from noon to 1 p.m. via zoom. Registration is required . Sarah Murphy, Liana Crisan-Vandeborne, and Tim Byrne will provide a developer's Tableau Refresh workshop, reviewing how to create basic and specialty charts and apply tools from the analytics pane.
Remaining activities for the university's Workday rollout include the retirement and shutdown of PeopleSoft data sources, BuckeyeOasis tools, and eReports and BuckIQ reporting services. Beginning November 1, access to these systems will be restricted to a small group of core users prior to system shutdown on December 31, 2021. Please review the full announcement for more detailed information on how to access common reports and historical data using new data tools.
The Tableau data visualization tool allows users to quickly create visual representations of data through interactive dashboards. During the upcoming October 13 "Introduction to Tableau for Data Visualization" workshop, attendees will learn how to start using Tableau and gain a foothold into harnessing the power of their data. Interested Ohio State faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate student researchers can check out the full post to see the agenda of topics and obtain registration information. Please register only if you can attend, workshop attendance will be capped at 30 participants.
The Data and Analytics team is offering one-hour Tableau hands-on help sessions. Initial sessions will be held weekly. The agenda for the sessions includes how to request appropriate access, walking through Tableau login steps, how to interact with data sources, how to use common reports, and how to save report filters. Time will also be allotted for an open question and answer period. See the full blog post for the MS Teams session link to join.
eActivity Awards reports are now available via Tableau Server. These reports cover award activity since Workday was implemented in January 2021. The Proposals and Expenditures components of eActivity will be available soon.
The information available and the intended use of eActivity Awards has not changed. However there are some differences from the legacy eActivity Award report including separate Summary and Detail reports.
Ohio State’s Tableau User Group (TUG) helps bring together passionate users to learn, share and solve common data challenges.
During the March 18 meeting, TUG members will welcome Eric Mayberry, Senior Manager of OCIO’s Data Analytics Team. Eric will be providing a developer’s walkthrough for the Ohio State COVID-19 Dashboard and share techniques for: 1. Organizing dashboards with containers, 2. Filtering multiple dashboard objects with calculated fields, and 3. Guiding users through their dashboard experience. Check the full article for registration details.
With the completion of the financial conversion data loads to Workday, the team responsible for the Reporting and Analytics Environment (RAE) has also completed the loading of financial data to the new analytics data lake. As of Monday February 1, the RAE is synchronized with Workday via data loads that push the most recent transactions into the analytics database each night. Read the full article to learn more about how to access and use these data sources.