My Fifty Most Recent #Alteryx Articles
This article will always have my 50 most recent Alteryx articles. It uses a Wordpress technique known as shortcodes to produce a list of articles. I have been wanting a capability like this for a long time!
My Fifty Most Recent #Tableau Articles
This article will always have my 50 most recent Tableau articles. It uses a Wordpress technique known as shortcodes to produce a list of articles. I have been wanting a capability like this for a long time!
How We Can Identify and Prevent Future School Rampage Events
School rampage shootings need to end. We need to work together to become more observant, to identify people that might commit future mass rampage events.
Proof of How Tableau Has Transformed Careers
It is unquestionable that Tableau has impacted many people. In fact, there are hundreds, if not thousands of people that have had career transformations because of Tableau. In this article, I give some cases of people that have been Tableau transformed.
How Tableau is Transformative
This is the story behind the making of my #MyTableauVoice video. Sometimes a simple thing like making a short video can teach you a lot about yourself and your personal journey in life.
#MyTableauVoice
I really suck at making videos. That is all I have to say about that.
Benchmark Results of the Tableau Hyper Data Engine
I revised a Tableau data engine benchmark study from 2013. I compared the new hyper data engine to the original Tableau data engine to see how much speed improvement was gained with the change.
Tableau #HyPeR – Is High Performance Real, or is this just HyPeRbole?
Years fly by faster than I can believe. In this article, which is number 300 for me, I go back to the beginning of this blog to examine Tableau performance using the new hyper data engine. The results should be very interesting to see.
The Times of Our Lives Part 2 – Via Google Photos
In part 2 of this series, I go back in time to relive family events. This article will have events going back to the 1970’s and individual photos older than that.
Data Science: Why Data Comes Before Science
Doing data science work means a lot of different things to different people. Many techniques exist for accomplishing the tasks that are needed to solve data science problems. Getting the data right, however, is important in all projects and Alteryx allows us to accomplish that goal.
How to Add Geographies to Lat/Long Data for Better #Tableau Mapping
This article shows how it is possible to add larger scale geographical information to your data when all you have are latitudes and longitudes.
Sometimes #Tableau Just Lets Me Visualize Something I’m Wondering About
I’ve been watching billions of miles of driving accumulate this year. I wondered where it was happening. I wondered where the drivers were going on road trips and whether or not they were following the interstate system.
Lessons Learned From a Decade of Using #Tableau
Ten years have passed and my Tableau passion has not subsided. How can this be, I wonder? How can Tableau continue to be such an important and profound part of my working life?
To find the answers, I took a few minutes to think about what Tableau means to me and what I have learned over these 10 years. These are my insights and I believe them to be true.
The Finer Things in @Alteryx
This article contains a document that I am building to hold a series of Alteryx techniques that are useful for advanced problem solving. The techniques span a wide range of topics that originate from the weekly challenges published on the Alteryx community site. Eventually, this document will be better organized and will grow into a more thorough reference guide.
Techniques for Efficiently Handling Big Data in @Alteryx and @Tableau
When data comes flying at you at nearly the speed of light, you have to have fast processing capabilities for using the data to make effective decisions and predictions. In this article, I present some techniques I use to process large data sets in Alteryx and Tableau to be able to see the truth of what lies within the data.