You can click here to see a Tableau dashboard that allows you to see who has been writing about Tableau on Twitter over time. The data embedded in this visualization has been captured using the Twitter API, and another post will be written about how that is done. You can search on any term you…
The Tableau website offers an enormous amount of valuable information to its users. The company Tableau has been very proactive in creating great training materials such as white papers, videos, articles, etc., and I’ve seen a continual buildup of this content over the past six years as a daily Tableau user. I really appreciate what…
I was curious to see how valuable the use of hashtags can be in performing some basic research. Two answer the question, I did a little study over the past couple of weeks. Over the past 12 days (7/20 to 7/31/13), I captured all the Twitter posts that had either #BigData or #Tableau in the…
Introduction The following work is circa October 2010, and at the time I was using Tableau version 5.2!
Are you a digital hoarder? I might be but I am committed to cleaning up my hard-drive! If you need to do some cleaning on your system, you can use Tableau to help you find the biggest offending files and to direct your clean-up activities. The reason for doing this is that you may be…
This post started with a simple picture from 7/11/1965 (48 years ago) that my sister posted to her Facebook page last week. This picture is shown below. In this photo, I’m shown sitting on the bottom step of my childhood house at 4700 West Race Ave in Chicago, IL.
Today I came across a nice tool called the TWB Auditor, by Andy Cotgreave (@acotgreave) of Tableau Software. Click here to learn about this tool.
In this simple example, I was developing some ideas on how to use concepts from statistical process control theory to evaluate the effectiveness of salesman over time.
I was in 6th grade when I came up with the name for my baby Boy – “Jett Black”. This is the story of how I created that name. This story is being written for Jett. If you like this article and would like to see more of what I write, please subscribe to…
I’ve just captured a little bit of my history.
Jett is now 21 months old. Starting in the upper left corner with his newborn picture and proceeding along the rows from left to right, there is one picture from each of the months that he has been with us. It is amazing how fast the changes happen. He is independent, stubborn, and really, really…
This is Part 2 of a story that has taken over 17 years to make. Now it is time to “show the beef”, so to speak. I promised to UNLEASH this data set by visualizing it with Tableau. So here it goes…
This story contains data recorded over 8.5 years. It is a serious data dork story coupled with the love of vehicle performance.
Introduction It was about 7 months into my wife’s last pregnancy when things started to get scary. This is the story from that time in August 2011.
Introduction OK. I’ll admit it. I was a slacker for many years