Introduction Growing up in Chicago, there were a few times that I had fevers. The fevers were particularly bad when it was cold outside because my body couldn’t stop shaking due to the abnormal temperature imbalance between me and the air. However, I don’t think I ever had anything as bad as the fever I…
Introduction There is a technique that I frequently use in Tableau that I call “creating buckets”. Buckets represent categories that I create on the fly for a variety of data sets, for a variety of reasons. Buckets can be used instead of going into the original data sources to build additional fields to specify your…
Introduction I have never met Rich Roll. I have never spoken to him, and I am not affiliated with him in any way. One day I hope to meet him and I’ll do my best to make that happen. September 25, 2012 Was A Great Day For Me 2013 has been a great year for…
For 10 years I worked on remediating groundwater and surface water in Cape Cod, MA. This is a short story about that project and how Tableau was used to visualize the data collected over many years of operating remediation systems.
Introduction I frequently have to perform correlation analysis of large amounts of data. The analysis might involve comparing sales from one store to another, or it might involve sales at the same store from one time period to another.
I think that Tableau is a great tool to use to examine large databases. Environmental data such as climate data (temps, precip, rainfall, etc) can be very large but many times is stored in compressed formats that make it hard to visualize. In this example, I pulled a file out of my Everglades Restoration Project archives…
In this post, I use a combination of text and videos to show how to use daily data in Tableau to calculate a seven-day moving average and moving range Daily Comp control chart pair, with control limits shown on each.
OK. So it has been a couple of years since I last wrote to my blog. I have a lot to say, so I’ll get started with a little #Tableau training.
I’ve used Tableau Software to visualize the historical record of Tour de France winners from the early 1900’s to 2011.
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Introduction The technologies available today allow us to do some incredible things. Google is a leader in enabling us to share our lives with others. The program Picasa is amazing and continues to grow in its on-line album capabilities (now with auto synchronization), making Picasa one of my favorite programs of all time.
Let me introduce you to Mr. Spinner.
I just starting using a new website development tool called “Artisteer” which creates visually appealing website templates. This tool is very efficient and interesting and saves a huge amount of time in developing a nice looking site, especially for a non graphics-design person like myself. Although this site is not yet completed, the following two…