This Is My Gift To All #FantasyFootball Players
Introduction According to ESPN, it is now time to sign up for Fantasy Football (Figure 1).
Please Take a Look at a Couple of My Favorite New #Alteryx and/or #Tableau Blogs
Introduction There are a couple of relatively new blogs that focus on Alteryx and Tableau. I really like both of these. The insights I gain from them are meaningful. They are well-done and authors do a great job of explaining their topics.
Adding Custom Geocoding For Airport IATA Codes in #Tableau
This article demonstrates how to implement custom geocoding for Airport IATA codes in Tableau.
Using the #Alteryx Fuzzy Logic Tool To Find Matching Names
When you review these results, the brilliance of the fuzzy matching algorithms begins to be seen. You can see that spaces in the names are accounted for, Jr/Sr’s are accounted for, and even the swapping of the first and last names are accounted for. To me, this is a superb result and gives me great confidence is using the fuzzy matching results.
Four Months of Living Outside of My Comfort Zone (Part 3)
Introduction To understand this article better, you might consider clicking here to read part one of this article.  After that, you can read part two by clicking here. Â
Rounding to the Nearest Dollar Using #Alteryx
Introduction What I describe in this article is a small piece of a fairly big and complicated Alteryx workflow that involves a lot of operations. I wish I could explain the whole sequence of events, but for now, I have to settle on this small technical detail related to rounding currencies to the nearest dollar.…
The Wimberley, TX Flood – Part 1
Introduction On May 23, 2015, a flash flood formed in the Blanco River and slammed the residents of Wimberley, TX. Houses were instantaneously removed from their foundations, giant trees were snapped in half, and tree bark was removed for over 30 feet into the air because the depth of the flood was so great. The…
My Thoughts On Being Selected As An #Alteryx ACE
Introduction Last week, I drove over 4,000 miles to spend a couple of days in Boston, MA. It was a delightful journey for many reasons. This article will explain what I did and why IÂ took this cross-country journey. I will also explain what it means to me to be selected as an Alteryx ACE.
The Brilliance of #Alteryx In-Database Processing
Having a super fast data processing engine doesn’t help if you have to pull a terabyte of data from a data warehouse only to find a subset of it and produce a report.
Easy Access and Navigation to the Rich Roll (@richroll) Podcasts
Update August, 2015 Google changed their minds and broke this technology. It is a shame. Click here to read about what they did to make this approach no longer work. You can still gain some insight to Rich’s podcasts by viewing my original article, but the easy navigation links are no longer valid. Sorry folks.…
Using Bookmarks to Visualize My #Tableau and #Alteryx Blog
Blogs are basically terrible at showing their content. Articles get buried over time and forgotten by everyone…
A Nice Update to the Seven Fantastic #Tableau Background Maps Article
Today (4/22/15) Omar wrote a couple of comments to the original article that provided the fix needed to make the maps appear automatically once they are selected from the map menu. This allows you to quickly toggle between background map types without having to hit those pesky check-boxes.
How To Install and Use Seven Fantastic #Tableau Background Maps
Allan is so cool that I sometimes get him confused with Walker, Texas Ranger, played by Chuck Norris. Figures 1 and 2 show you what I mean.
A Quick Big Data Excel Tip For #Tableau Users
By doing this sequence, you will save yourself a lot of time and grief. Trust me, I’ve had this happen more times than I care to remember.
What Do You Do When The Least Expected Thing Happens?
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?