Introduction For four months (October 2013 to January 2014) I did a job that was tough. It was tedious, time consuming, and it caused Tableau to buckle under the pressure of multiple data sources, multiple data joins, and difficulties with data formats.
Introduction For me, Tableau is not just about whiz-bang dashboards and an awesome user experience. I use Tableau for a lot more than just its intended purpose of interactively exploring data.
Introduction This is part 3 of a blog post series on combining Alteryx and Tableau to perform a real-world example of an ETL-based analytics project. You can click on the blue links if you want to read part 1Ā or part 2.
Introduction This is part 2 of a blog post series on combining Alteryx and Tableau to perform a real-world example of an ETL-based analytics project. If you want to read part 1, click here. In this article, you will obtain and extract the data used in this project. This example uses freeĀ climate data available from…
Introduction This is one of the those blog posts that is more of aĀ novel than a short-story and it is more of a marathon than a sprint. In this series of articles, I build a detailed case study that uses the combined power of Alteryx and Tableau to investigate worldwide climate data.
Introduction IĀ wasĀ sitting at the basketball scorer’s table when the final horn sounded and the game concluded. Suddenly this little 10-year old player, with big round glasses, excitedly runs up to me to tell me something. This is how the conversation went.
Introduction In this article, I evaluate the effectiveness of my Tableau blog. To do this, I use Tableau fueledĀ with data that was extracted fromĀ the WordPress content management system. I did this self-evaluation to understand how I can become a better blogger and to quantify what kind of readership response a good Tableau article will receive…
Introduction I have scrapedĀ a wide varietyĀ data from websites over the years. Many times I have had to pre-process the data before using it in Tableau.
Introduction If you are interested in learning about Tableau, following key bloggers is a good way to learn a lot of applied techniques quickly. In a recent blog post, I described how important it is to subscribe to bloggers that produce a significant amount ofĀ good content. In a sense, this blog post could be considered…
Introduction I have been writing a lot of Tableau articles that are gathered together in a placeĀ called 3danim8’s Blog. I do this to help people learn how to solve data-science type problems. These problems arise in business, math and science and I use great software tools like Tableau and Alteryx to find the solutions. I…
Introduction The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for 3danim’s blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 47,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 17 sold-out performances for…
Introduction For the past fourĀ years (2011-2014), I have used Tableau to produce real-time AAU basketball results during a big tournament.
Introduction I have been using Tableau since Feb 2008. I have been reading Tableau-related blog posts by Andy Kriebel for nearly as long as that!Ā
Introduction Flat-files have been used around the world of the past few decades to store a lot of data. Flat-files were originally designedĀ to save space, although they do have an intrinsic inefficiency because spaces are used as placeholders instead of using a delimiter, like a comma.
Introduction This post is NOT really intended to be a super-clean and comprehensive, step-by-step instruction set for how to draw Alteryx-generated polygons in Tableau. However, if you are willing to do a little work, you will be able to reproduce the resultsĀ in this article.