Introduction – This Is My First Reblog

I have never reblogged someone else’s work. However, when someone writes a treatise on a topic like this, I have to capture the information because I know I will need it in the future. This is a Master’s thesis delivered in the form of a blog post and this work comes directly from James Dunkerley. In this case, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Believe me when I tell you that you feel like you are on a merry-go-round when you are studying rounding. Your brain is saying, “around and around we go, where we stop, nobody knows”. Even Mr. Ned of Alteryx got sucked into the vortex one day when sent him an innocent question about rounding! I still feel bad for wasting part of his day, although he said he liked the punishment!

So now we have a place to go to get the correct formulations for rounding for our applications. I consider this to be the definitive guide for rounding when you are working in Tableau and Alteryx. I can only imagine how long this took James to write, but I’m sure glad that he did it rather than me. Thanks so much for sharing this work, my friend. – Ken 7/29/15.