When you present your data to Tableau, it is possible to fool the data interpreter. When this happens to you, you can become frustrated. To learn how to understand and then resolve the problem, just read this article.
Tableau 10 highlighting can be very useful for big data sets. In this example, I show how highlighting quickly reveals differences in consumer behavior by state. Some of the behavioral difference are caused by the geographical settings the consumers live within.
Sometimes my blog is simply my diary. This is one of those articles. This article has nothing to do with Tableau and Alteryx.
I don’t expect anyone to read this because I am writing it for my little dude, Jett!
This is 3danim8 article #200. It took 2 years for me to write the previous 100 articles on the usage of Alteryx plus Tableau. The next 100 articles will go into a deeper exploration of the power of these two tremendous tools to achieve great things.
This article was written in one day in March, 2015, and then forgotten for 1.5 years. Today I revived and revised the manuscript to get this thing out into the blogosphere. One day, I predict, someone will thank me for writing this one.
This story goes back to the 1970’s, the 1990’s, and the 2010’s. It contains references to the famous John Travolta and naming popularity. It is a cool story, at least I think so.
In Part 2 of my blogging experimental analysis, I use Alteryx coupled with Tableau 10 clustering to perform some text analytics. This work answers a single question related to how certain words can improve blog readership rates.
Today I got to experience pure chaos while on the road. This is the type of story that we all believe will not happen to us.
The Grossery Gang is a toy collection that was released this month (July 2016). My 4-yr old son, Jett, is totally mesmerized with this collection. This story is the beginning of our journey with Tableau and the Grossery Gang.
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.
When I teach Tableau, I hit the wall. It happens to me every time. For this reason I am now asking myself: “Am I going insane?”.
The Tableau Desktop software development history exhibits several salient features that indicate excellent strategy, planning, vision, execution, and dogged determination. In this article, I explain why I believe this statement is true.
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.
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.
Mary Barra, our CEO, calls GM a tech company. Advanced analytics is a part of that company and it is a lot of fun to do. In Part 2 of this series, I share some of the fun things going on at GM.