Edit images with calculations in Tableau using Cloudinary and Tableau Image Roles

Check out ‪@MarcReid‬ s video on this. • Tableau Image Role + C...
Working with images in tableau can be a bit frustrating. one of the frustrating parts of the workflow is getting images sized to fit the web object pane if you're loading them from the internet. In this video, I combine the capability of the image hosting service Cloudinary with the capability of a Tableau to allow you to change the size of an image being loaded dynamically through a calculation without having to first render the image or create duplicate versions.
0:00 Introduction
0:22 Getting setup
2:52 The dashboard setup
5:32 How Cloudinary works
8:30 Adding dynamic URLs to your dashboard
14:47 Transformations Cloudinary can do with URLs
16:44 Costs
18:59 Conclusions
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[@collinsmith5704]

Super cool! As someone who doesn't have a lot of experience using image processing software, I can see this being really helpful.

[@Data.Monster]

Spectacular, nice one Tim !

[@taichou_exe]

Great reference thank you

[@TableauTim]

Glad it was helpful!

[@DanielWeikert]

Do you know how to calculate the slope and show it in tableau.e.g. take superstore dataset do a moving average across time (month on x axis, Moving Average Sales on y axis) How to calculate the slope here (especially when date is on one dimension) Any ideas? Thanks

[@snakeboy2904]

Hey @TableauTim I was wondering if you had any suggestions on supporting this with subscriptions. I implemented this process in our client reporting stuff BUT when I try and generate the subscription to PDF, none of the images get saved. Its very sad.

[@Foyzur32]

Hi Tim,
When you download a PDF version of a dashboard containing images from a URL, the container is always blank. Do you know of a solution that allows 1. The picture to be downloaded, 2, at the intended original resolution. Thanks

[@timfngwena]

I think this behaviour might have change din 22.2 but let me test. there's a new native prowser printing feature that night have effected this will try and find out

[@aboody1111]

Would this service require us to store our data in their server, or can we use our own server to store the images?

[@timfngwena]

Good question. They rely on alot of cloud computation and machine learning in AWS I think to run some of theses transformations so I don think they have a self hosted flavour. Worth asking them though I'm sure they get asked this all the time.

[@krrishchheda2252]

When hovered over images it shows entire URL in tooltip.....please guide to hide that

[@TableauTim]

Edit the tooltip in marks shelf or disable tooltips. I have a video on tooltips. czcams.com/video/3SuHBoRzfyQ/video.html

[@anmolparimoo5994]

Can we use SPLIT instead of FIND, RIGHT?

[@timfngwena]

yep could have done that but i think you'd need to build up the URL a lot more.

[@TableauTim]

You got a reply from my personal account wow ahah. That never happens.