An introduction to the data manager

Working with Einstein Analytics I often hear people finding the data manager the most challenging part to learn. Perhaps because when people work with dashboards in core Salesforce we don’t have to shape our data the same way, we simply need to understand what objects we want to use in our report or dashboard. There ...

Welcome to the new data platform

Something new is coming to Einstein Analytics. Something you should pay attention to as it will change the way that you work with data. The most visible part of this new data platform is a new Data Prep editor. It’s more approachable and powerful featuring machine learning capabilities. Hints have been dropped at Dreamforce and ...

Preparing Your Data For Einstein Discovery

Einstein Discovery is AI-powered analytics that enables business users to automatically discover relevant patterns based on their data – without having to build sophisticated data models. However, Einstein Discovery is only as good as the historical data it is analyzing. Wrangling the data, which is always the hardest part, involves cleaning and consolidating your historical ...

Enrich Your B2B Marketing Data

I have to admit I don’t get to work with Pardot much anymore, that’s just the nature of my job. However, lately, I’ve been asked a lot about the B2B Marketing Analytics App and how you can customize it to your needs. Now I’ve already touched on this topic before with the blog on custom ...

My most used computeExpression

One thing I cannot control in the Einstein Analytics UI is the sorting of the values. It’s either alphabetically or descending/ascending values, which do make sense. Now, most of the times that’s all good, just not when you are dealing with values that happen in a certain order. As an example, I can mention opportunity ...

Flag Null Values in your Datasets

It would be great if your data in Salesforce was complete! I mean it would be so much easier to do reporting and get some great insight. Unfortunately, complete data is the same as seeing unicorns, it would be great, but just not realistic. So what happens when you have null values in Einstein Analytics? Well, ...