A Car Chase, A Near Miss and a @RichRoll Podcast

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.

Tableau Visualizes Jett’s Grossery Gang Collection

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 Try to Inspire Because I Have Been Inspired By Alteryx

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.

In Three Days of Teaching Tableau…

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?”.

Software Development Excellence At Tableau

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.

Alteryx Strategies For Solving Tough Problems

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.

Tableau and Backwards Compatibility

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.

Yes, Working at GM is Great Fun!

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.

Using Tableau to Animate Great Circle Flight Paths

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.

Benchmarking the Alteryx Fuzzy Matching Tool

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.

The Emergence of Popular Baby Names in 2015

In part 2 of my baby name series, I determine the emerging popular baby names for boys and girls in 2015.

Possibly The Most Important Rich Roll (@richroll) Podcast So Far

There is a great new RRP episode on the importance of sleep. I found it to be a outstanding resource and helped me understand many things about the critical need for sleep.