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.
How Popular Is Your Name?
This article includes a fun dashboard that can be used to investigate the popularity of names over time.
Why Data Science Is One Reason I Love My Life
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.
The 3danim8 BEAP1 – Visualizing Geographical Blog Expansion
Title Definition 3danim8 BEAP1 = 3danim8 Blogging Experiment Analysis Part 1 – Visualizing Geographical Blog Expansion
How To Videos For Tableau Training
These are Tableau technique and application videos that supplement my Tableau training course.
A Dynamic Image and Web Page Viewer Using Tableau
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.
Using Tableau to Check Accuracy of Acurite Weather Station Data
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.
Using Tableau to Visualize Healing After Skin Cancer (BCC) Surgery
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.
My General Motors Story
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?.
A Tableau-Based Photo Viewer
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, Part 1
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.
Epilogue
This article explains why I feel like my Blogging Experiment was a failure. You have to read the article to understand what I mean.