Three Aces Talk About The 2017 @Alteryx Inspire Conference
Three Alteryx Aces spent some time together talking about their Inspire 2017 conference experiences. This article has a link to that dicussion.
A Useful USA County Shapefile For #Tableau and #Alteryx
I constructed a USA county shapefile by blending two files together to create a more useful item for Tableau and Alteryx. You can download the source files and the final product, as well as a Tableau 10.4 file that holds the information.
A Useful USA Zip Code Shapefile For #Tableau and #Alteryx
I constructed a zip code shapefile by blending two files together to create a more useful item for Tableau and Alteryx. You can download the source files and the final product, as well as a Tableau 10.4 file that holds the information.
How To Do Trend Modeling In #Alteryx
This is the second of a three part series showing how Tableau, Alteryx and Power BI can be used to perform trend modeling of data. In this article, Alteryx is used to perform the work.
How To Do Trend Modeling In #Tableau
This is the first of a three part series showing how Tableau, Alteryx and Power BI can be used to perform trend modeling of data. After these three demonstrations are complete, a competition using worldwide data will be completed to see which software platform performs the best on completing this type of work.
From @Alteryx Inspire 2017: How Joe Mako is an Analytics Virtuoso
Writing articles about really talented people is easy to do. My buddy Joe Mako is seriously talented and I show why this is the case in this article.
Buckled Roads and Melting Permafrost in Bethel, Alaska
A climate skeptic recently wrote a snide article that sent me into action. This article is a rebuttal to his work and explains why roads can be buckling in Bethel, AK.
My Work on Quora
It is very easy to get lost in time as you read questions and answers in the site called Quora. Over time, I find myself reading more content on this site because it has a uniqueness that I haven’t found anywhere else.
How To Use Hadoop With #Tableau and #Alteryx
We recently made a discovery that allows us to use Alteryx and Tableau with the IBM BigInsights Hadoop platform. This article describes how that happens.
The Big Book Of Dashboards is Big, But The Workshop Is Bad To The Bone!
The workshop that accompanies the Big Book of Dashboards is excellent. I had a great time during the inaugural course and I encourage anyone interested in this topic to attend a future workshop, if possible.
Temperature Changes Over the Past 50 Years: A Visual Tour Country by Country
Three years have come down to this article. I now feel that I have a good grasp on the spatial and temporal changes in temperature over the past 50 years. I feel like I have now achieved one of my goals in doing this work.
Global Climate Data Set 2 – Monthly and Decade Average Temperatures
In this article, I give links to monthly aggregated temperatures, as well as decade aggregated results. These files are much smaller than the daily data files and should be easier for most people to render in Tableau or their favorite graphics package.
Global Climate Data Set 1 – Daily Temperatures
This is the first article of a series that will give download links to the processed global climate data sets I have developed. This article contains daily temperatures from monitoring stations around the world.
My #Alteryx17 Climate Change Presentation
June 6, 2017 was a great day for me. I was able to discuss three years of work with a room full of people at the Alteryx 2017 Inspire Conference. It was dream come true.
How To Achieve Better Data Comprehension, Part 3
It has taken me eight months to finish this series on achieving data comprehension. This is the third and final installment that explains how I have learned to be a data exploiter. You will need to read the article to find out what that means.