Relational-ish: A Preview of Working with JSON

Next week, I’ll be presenting with Patrick McCormick on working with JSON. Here’s a quick preview of WHY you want to attend the session (or watch it afterward if you plan to cover your eyes through the scary part).

JSON by itself is great for passing around. It’s lightweight, you can even open it and take a look through it with no special software required, and it seems to be used at least once a bit of everywhere.

Until you drop it into Tableau and run screaming like it’s a chainsaw in your face when more than 10 schemas load.

Holy mother of LODs is right! You’ve got fixed calculations everywhere and none of your dimensions seem to relate. Yes, kids, this is a problem if you want to try to make some compelling dashboards that allow you to discover a problem.

Some people try to Cartesian their way out. Cartesians are cute until they take over the city and start eating electrical wires. Or, worse, singing Christmas songs outside your front door.

Here’s the secret: there is a way to make this work elegantly. Come to our session if you want to see it live or yes, watch this space, if this movie is too scary to watch in the theatre.

https://tc19.tableau.com/learn/sessions/voicebase-json-shouldnt-remind-you-friday-13th