Introduction I use Tableau for scheduling basketball games and reporting tournament results. One of the difficulties I have faced in these applications arises because team schedules and results are stored in multiple dimensions. This means that a team can be either a home team or a visiting team in the database, which are two different…
Introduction Blogs are one of the best sources for learning Tableau techniques that I have found. A couple of the problems with using Blogs as a learning tool, however, is that they are scattered throughout the web and they are not published on a routine schedule. Unless you are really diligent in subscribing to the…
Introduction I think that writing a useful blog shouldn’t be too hard with the technologies we have. But it is.
Introduction Whether I’m exploring personal or work-related data, I frequently use a technique that I call “creating Tableau Buckets”.
Introduction Earlier this year I realized that one of the absolutely most powerful features of Tableau is its ability to act as a visual interface to any type of database that I can dream of.
Introduction Fifty is the theme for today. This is blog post number 50 and I’m 50 years old. Hence, my 50/50 list.
Introduction I guess you can say that I’ve been on a mission lately to understand and document the performance, capabilities, and limitations of Tableau Desktop software. Today I decided to answer the following question: When is it necessary to switch from a professional workstation to a “big-data platform” to analyze large structured data files with…
Introduction I have always liked to benchmark computer programs. For that reason, I thought it would be fun to see how fast Tableau is in reading typical structured data sets that I have used in Process Improvement work. The question I want to specifically answer is: How fast does Tableau read data from a character-separated…