Even now, I still can’t believe that I received that phone call. I wondered if this was going to be another “phone call of a lifetime”, like the one I received from Microsoft in 1988. How did she “find” my resume and how did she know that I was the right guy for the job, I wondered?
Since I use my blog about every day to find techniques I previously used, I wanted a quick way to launch my posts and to quickly show people where to find information.
We had a good time last night at the Tableau 9.0 event in Austin. I just had to take a few pics to show the skyline and the scene of the upcoming SXSW in Austin. It is going to be crazy in Austin over the next week or so. P.S. If you want a good…
I first tried this extensive, multi-step procedure outlined in this Tableau knowledge base article about installing Teradata drivers, but I was not able to complete the connection. If you want to try it, go ahead and bang your head against the wall for a while. Otherwise, if you want to experience less pain, you might just try the three step procedure shown below.
General Motors is a company that has been reborn and is now a leader in innovation. This article looks at some of the ways GM is innovating.
Introduction It is currently 4 am and I am more than a thousand miles from home in a hotel, missing my wife and kids. Annoying interstate traffic is periodically causing me to awaken. Suddenly and old commercial from 1979 pops into my head and this blog post was instantly born. (Warning: to experience the full-effect of…
Introduction I recently realized that I created a lot of Tableau and Alteryx content over the past 8 months. Sometimes I need to reference the material and it can be hard for me to find. I figure that if it is hard for me to find, others will have no chance of finding it.
Introduction Today is the day that I officially blasted myself out of the comfort zone. It happened on February 5, 2015. It wasn’t an easy decision to make, but I had to make it.
Introduction This is part 5 of a blog post series on combining Alteryx and Tableau to perform a real-world example of an ETL-based analytics project. If you want to read previous parts to this series, click on these links: part 1, part 2, part 3, or part 4. Â In this article, I use Tableau to…
Introduction Over the past few months, I have been using Tableau and Alteryx to investigate world-wide climate data. This work has caused me to think about climate and local weather variability and our ability to predict what is going to happen in the future.
Introduction I don’t usually gripe too much about Tableau functionality, so when I do it is usually because I have had to deal with the problem over and over and over – through many years.
Introduction I have written a few articles about the necessity of data reshaping when you do a lot of work in Tableau. To read my most comprehensive article, click here. In that article, I show several examples of data reshaping, with the examples increasing in complexity throughout the article.
Introduction This is part 4 of a blog post series on combining Alteryx and Tableau to perform a real-world example of an ETL-based analytics project. If you want to read the previous parts of this series, click the blue links for Part 1, Part 2, or Part 3. In a recent headline it was reported that, 2014 was the hottest…
Introduction For four months (October 2013 to January 2014) I did a job that was tough. It was tedious, time consuming, and it caused Tableau to buckle under the pressure of multiple data sources, multiple data joins, and difficulties with data formats.
Introduction For me, Tableau is not just about whiz-bang dashboards and an awesome user experience. I use Tableau for a lot more than just its intended purpose of interactively exploring data.