Introduction It is currently 4 am and I am more than a thousand miles from home in a hotel, missing my wife and kids. Annoying interstate traffic is periodically causing me to awaken. Suddenly and old commercial from 1979 pops into my head and this blog post was instantly born. (Warning: to experience the full-effect of…
Introduction I recently realized that I created a lot of Tableau and Alteryx content over the past 8 months. Sometimes I need to reference the material and it can be hard for me to find. I figure that if it is hard for me to find, others will have no chance of finding it.
Introduction Today is the day that I officially blasted myself out of the comfort zone. It happened on February 5, 2015. It wasn’t an easy decision to make, but I had to make it.
Introduction This is part 5 of a blog post series on combining Alteryx and Tableau to perform a real-world example of an ETL-based analytics project. If you want to read previous parts to this series, click on these links: part 1, part 2, part 3, or part 4. In this article, I use Tableau to…
Introduction Over the past few months, I have been using Tableau and Alteryx to investigate world-wide climate data. This work has caused me to think about climate and local weather variability and our ability to predict what is going to happen in the future.
Introduction I don’t usually gripe too much about Tableau functionality, so when I do it is usually because I have had to deal with the problem over and over and over – through many years.
Introduction I commonly have to rank data sets for a variety of reasons. Today I had to create a rank in Alteryx, which is something I have not had to do before.
Introduction I have written a few articles about the necessity of data reshaping when you do a lot of work in Tableau. To read my most comprehensive article, click here. In that article, I show several examples of data reshaping, with the examples increasing in complexity throughout the article.
Introduction This is part 4 of a blog post series on combining Alteryx and Tableau to perform a real-world example of an ETL-based analytics project. If you want to read the previous parts of this series, click the blue links for Part 1, Part 2, or Part 3. In a recent headline it was reported that, 2014 was the hottest…