I have had two unexpected infatuations in the past decade. Not with women, but with software companies?!? How crazy is that? As I continue my blogging mission to help myself and others, I was rewarded today in a way I never expected. This article explains what I mean.
This article describes some concepts and methods I use when building more advanced workflows. In some ways, writing workflows is analogous to writing computer programs. You have think critically about what you want to accomplish. By breaking the problem down into small pieces and solving those, complex workflows become more manageable.
I built upon an approach published by James Dunkerley to animate flight paths using a great circle approach. I’m going to use this method to introduce nice visualizations at my workplace.
I’m a guy that likes to know how things work. By its very nature, interpreting results from a fuzzy matching algorithm can be a bit fuzzy. The reduce the fuzziness, I got down and dirty and did a couple of sensitivity analyses on the fuzzy matching tool to gain a better understanding of how it works.
In part 2 of my baby name series, I determine the emerging popular baby names for boys and girls in 2015.
This article includes a fun dashboard that can be used to investigate the popularity of names over time.
This is a short story of why I love data science. This story was written deep in my brain during one night of restless sleep.
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These are Tableau technique and application videos that supplement my Tableau training course.
In this article, I give answers to three questions I was recently asked on a General Motors podcast. The questions were: (1) What brought you here? (2) What keeps me here? and (3) How does my job move GM forward?.
Tableaupedia is a tool that I have built to save me time. Since I teach people to use Tableau, I have to have quick access to information and this tool allows me to find what I need very fast.
This article explains why I feel like my Blogging Experiment was a failure. You have to read the article to understand what I mean.
By writing this blog, I was simply pursuing my passions. I allowed the blog to meander across topics because my passion is widespread. I wrote about techniques in math, science, Tableau and Alteryx. I solved problems and I shared stories. I met many new friends. I got better in the field of analytics because I connected to a wide group of really talented people. I loved that experience and as I now know, I was driven to learn. It was fantastic journey that included 1/8 of a million blog hits and one that I will always be glad that I took.
Sometimes I have an idea that I want to investigate. I think I know what the answer will be, but every once in a while the result blows me away. This is one of those cases. Tableau makes it really easy to find the answer to these kinds of questions.
Nothing in my life has allowed me to solve problems the way that Alteryx has. If you want complete and total control of your data, your work processes, and an unmatched ability to create stunning visualizations, then learn how to couple Alteryx with Tableau and unleash your complete creativity.