My Twitter archive featuring some good #Tableau training tips
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My Baby Boy Jett Black – A Picture for Each of His First 21 Months
Jett is now 21 months old. Starting in the upper left corner with his newborn picture and proceeding along the rows from left to right, there is one picture from each of the months that he has been with us. It is amazing how fast the changes happen. He is independent, stubborn, and really, really…
Using #Tableau to Show Performance of my 1996 Maxima SE (Part 2)
This is Part 2 of a story that has taken over 17 years to make. Now it is time to “show the beef”, so to speak. I promised to UNLEASH this data set by visualizing it with Tableau. So here it goes…
Using #Tableau to Show Performance of my 1996 Maxima SE (Part 1)
This story contains data recorded over 8.5 years. It is a serious data dork story coupled with the love of vehicle performance.
Using #Tableau to Help the Doctor Save My Wife and Baby During a High-Risk Pregnancy
Introduction It was about 7 months into my wife’s last pregnancy when things started to get scary. This is the story from that time in August 2011.
Using #Tableau to Visualize Our Kids’ Growth Curves
Introduction OK. I’ll admit it. I was a slacker for many years
#Tableau Fever – How do you know if you have it?
Introduction Growing up in Chicago, there were a few times that I had fevers. The fevers were particularly bad when it was cold outside because my body couldn’t stop shaking due to the abnormal temperature imbalance between me and the air. However, I don’t think I ever had anything as bad as the fever I…
#Tableau Buckets – How to create and use them
Introduction There is a technique that I frequently use in Tableau that I call “creating buckets”. Buckets represent categories that I create on the fly for a variety of data sets, for a variety of reasons. Buckets can be used instead of going into the original data sources to build additional fields to specify your…
Rich Roll (@richroll) has shown me the way
Introduction I have never met Rich Roll. I have never spoken to him, and I am not affiliated with him in any way. One day I hope to meet him and I’ll do my best to make that happen. September 25, 2012 Was A Great Day For Me 2013 has been a great year for…
Using #Tableau to Evaluate the MMR CS-10 TCE Mass Removal History
For 10 years I worked on remediating groundwater and surface water in Cape Cod, MA. This is a short story about that project and how Tableau was used to visualize the data collected over many years of operating remediation systems.
#Tableau, Correlations and Scatter Plots
Introduction I frequently have to perform correlation analysis of large amounts of data. The analysis might involve comparing sales from one store to another, or it might involve sales at the same store from one time period to another.
Using #Tableau to Examine 99 Years of Lake Okeechobee Rainfall Data
I think that Tableau is a great tool to use to examine large databases. Environmental data such as climate data (temps, precip, rainfall, etc) can be very large but many times is stored in compressed formats that make it hard to visualize. In this example, I pulled a file out of my Everglades Restoration Project archives…
Using daily data in #Tableau to calculate annual sales comps and generate control charts of this data
In this post, I use a combination of text and videos to show how to use daily data in Tableau to calculate a seven-day moving average and moving range Daily Comp control chart pair, with control limits shown on each.