Introduction Jett is now 2.5 years old. He knows his ABC’s, can count to 20 in English and to 10 in Spanish. His brain is a sponge. So tonight, we decided to play with his new group of blocks to practice learning words and the difference between small and capital letters. It was a lot…
Introduction I use the “set” functionality in Tableau for a lot of different things. “Sets” are very useful to me and I am still trying to learning how to use them effectively in my work. Because there are multiple techniques for creating sets in Tableau, there might be better techniques available to control the set…
Preamble Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 07:31:44 EDT From: Patrick Leach <leach@BEDFORD.PROGRESS.COM> Subject: Re: alt.tools.hunting (was Re: Bagging and Emmert! (was re: Bagging the big iron)) Patrick Olguin <polgu@PARACEL.COM> writes: >[shameless bragging deleted] >I love these stories. Keep ’em coming guys. OK, Paddy O’Deen, of Parts Unknown, HaHaHalifornia, you asked for it. Now it’s my turn…
Introduction I suppose that I have been blogging long before blogs were invented. Various old hard drives hold stories from my past, just waiting to be published. I thought of this story the other day when I was looking for something in my woodworking shop. I wondered if I could find the text. Well I…
Introduction In the past couple of blog posts, I’ve been writing about how I get data ready for analysis in Tableau. One special data condition that arises is the data type that I’ll call an alpha-numeric field. This data type can be tricky to work with, so you have to pay attention to the details…
Introduction Rarely, if ever, does data arrive to me in the exact format that I need it to be in for efficient analysis in Tableau. This means something has to be done to the data before I can use it. In Part 1 of this series, I provide specific examples of real-world data format changes…
Introduction It does not happen often, but whenever I get a flat file (i.e., fixed-width ASCII file) to work with, I have to work some magic on the file to get it ready for Tableau. This post describes how some of that magic happens.