This article discusses how you can make changes to the
XML codes in a *.twb file to move a workbook to an earlier version of Tableau. The technique can help you get out of a jam at times if you inadvertently used a version of Tableau that is too new for your Tableau Server or for Tableau Public publications.
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.
I had a feeling I could use Tableau to make an image and blog viewer that was dynamic and fully functional, but I wasn’t quite sure how to do it. Well, today, I revisited the concept and accomplished the task.
I really like weather data. I also really hate inaccurate weather data. If you have an Acurite Weather Station at your house, you might want to be wary of the data it is collecting.
This is definitely one of my more obscure and somewhat creepy Tableau applications. I visualize the skin healing process after a skin cancer operation I had to remove a Basal Cell Carcinoma.
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?.
It took me 20 years to collect the data for this idea. It only took me a couple of hours in Tableau to complete the idea.
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.