Innovation Examples From General Motors
General Motors is a company that has been reborn and is now a leader in innovation. This article looks at some of the ways GM is innovating.
The Future of #Tableau As Discussed By Three Experienced Gentlemen
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…
3danim8 Blog Links – A Summary of the Past 8 Months
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.
Today I Blasted Myself Out of the Comfort Zone
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.
How To Build An #Alteryx Workflow to Visualize Data in #Tableau, Part 5
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…
Using #Tableau to Help Visualize Temperature and Wind Variations
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.
I Wish #Tableau Would Change How Annotations Work
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.
How to Compute A Rank In #Alteryx
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.
Benchmarking Data Reshaping in #Alteryx
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.
How To Build An #Alteryx Workflow to Visualize Data in #Tableau, Part 4
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…
Hard Jobs Made Easy Using #Alteryx
Introduction For four months (October 2013 to January 2014) I did a job that was tough. It was tedious, time consuming, and it caused Tableau to buckle under the pressure of multiple data sources, multiple data joins, and difficulties with data formats.
I Wish #Tableau Would Give Us A Way To Document Our Figures!
Introduction For me, Tableau is not just about whiz-bang dashboards and an awesome user experience. I use Tableau for a lot more than just its intended purpose of interactively exploring data.
How To Build An #Alteryx Workflow to Visualize Data in #Tableau, Part 3
Introduction This is part 3 of a blog post series on combining Alteryx and Tableau to perform a real-world example of an ETL-based analytics project. You can click on the blue links if you want to read part 1 or part 2.
How To Build An #Alteryx Workflow to Visualize Data in #Tableau, Part 2
Introduction This is part 2 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 part 1, click here. In this article, you will obtain and extract the data used in this project. This example uses free climate data available from…
How To Build An #Alteryx Workflow to Visualize Data in #Tableau, Part 1
Introduction This is one of the those blog posts that is more of a novel than a short-story and it is more of a marathon than a sprint. In this series of articles, I build a detailed case study that uses the combined power of Alteryx and Tableau to investigate worldwide climate data.