Introduction If you work with large, diverse data sets, you know that there will invariably be noise and erroneous data in the database you are using. This is one reason why I treat all data as guilty until proven innocent.
Introduction Whenever I have a recurring question asked to me about a Tableau Desktop feature, I realize that something is not quite intuitive in the software and needs to be fixed. Such is the case with the Tableau trend models as they are currently described in the software.
Introduction Today there is a CNN headline that gives some predictions about the 2013 hurricane season. Click here to read the story. This reminded me of the hurricane data that I worked on recently, using Tableau to investigate spatial and temporal trends over the past 40 years. If you want to examine the data for…
Introduction I work with a lot of site-specific data that typically does not have latitude and longitude information included. I am generally given an address, city, state and zip for the data location. Although Tableau will automatically map this data at the state, city, and zip levels using generated latitude and longitude, many times I…
Today was Jett’s second birthday. We took pictures throughout the day, starting about 10 am and ending about 4:30 pm. During those 6.5 hours, over 1650 pictures were taken. Normally my extraordinarily talented wife Toni will turn these pictures into a book printed by the service Shutterfly. I love these books. They are very special…
A couple of weeks ago, I started capturing Twitter data that had the hashtag #Plantpower in the tweet. I wrote about the motivation for this in another blog post. This information is stored in a database that is automatically updated over time. This post is intended to help people learn how to use Tableau dashboards…