Over many years, I dreamed of this day. The interesting thing about this story, however, is that my dreams never included what actually happened. Becoming a Tableau Zen Master continues to be a mystical experience for me.
Each day I get to fulfill my analytics dreams. This occurs because of great software from Alteryx, Tableau, and Mapbox, as well as having very talented friends like Allan Walker and Anya A’Hearn. To learn about my latest global warming insights, read this article.
As part of the NFL Big Data Bowl in late 2018, I created a presentation that discusses how I explored game data to uncover insights on how NFL player speed can lead to NFL success. The results weren’t always what I expected them to be!
YouTube is king when it comes to reaching people with your message. There is no doubt in my mind that this is true. In this video, I give several examples that compare and contrast the effectiveness of YouTube, Linked-In, and Wordpress.
In the first Kenny Cool special edition video, I thank Tableau for choosing me to be a 2019 Zen Master. I explain some behind the scenes attempts I made to work for Tableau. Even though I was never hired, I continued to pursue my Tableau passions ,and now I am a bit of a Tableau historian.
In Kenny Cool Episode #4, I discuss the various methods available for using the Data Blends Blog.
In Kenny Cool episode #2, I discuss how much fun I recently had working with real NFL data as part of a competition.
Preeclampsia (pre-e-CLAMP-si-a) is a condition unique to human pregnancy. It is diagnosed by the elevation of the expectant mother’s blood pressure usually after the 20th week of pregnancy. In this story, we used data collection and visualization to help our doctor make the right choices for my wife during our high-risk pregnancy.
Contrary to the “Agony of an Eduction”, this article expresses the joy of an education. The joy comes from first learning to use Tableau.
Ten years of happiness data is what I used to find something interesting. I didn’t plan on writing this article, but an anomaly I detected really made me think about the significance of this data.
I am going to reset my biological age. This article describes what I plan to do. I don’t know how how long it will take, so you should subscribe to this blog to follow this story!
Some stories just pop out of my mind. Other stories take time. This one has been forming for the past three months. It should have a subtitle: Why Using Alteryx and Tableau is a lot more fun than using SQL and R.
This article explains how to show every Nth data label along a line. This extends some work I explained three years ago.
Global warming has been visualized using world-wide temperature anomaly data. This work uses a pre-computed data set to understand temperature changes over the past 7 decades.
Somehow hundreds of connection requests are being repeatedly sent out from my LinkedIn account. I’m not doing it, so it is very frustrating.