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 four 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!
Introduction Flat-files have been used around the world of the past few decades to store a lot of data. Flat-files were originally designed 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 results in this article.
Introduction Normally I only write about my own work, but today I saw something that was so innovative that I feel the need to write about it.The work that caught my attention uses observed flu data in a mathematical model to predict the spatial and temporal occurrence of the flu. This work is creative and innovative…
Introduction One of the most popular topics I have written about in this blog is a method I call “Tableau buckets”. I have been very surprised by the number of people that have found this concept to be useful. For this reason, I am going to extend this “bucket” concept to Alteryx workflows.
Introduction About three months ago, I used Tableau to build a predictive model for my blog readership. Today I checked the accuracy of that predictive model. This short article shows the results of this fairly simplistic work.
Introduction Sorting data is fundamental technique and is a skill that anyone that frequently works with data needs to possess. I have sorted a lot of data through the years, for many different reasons. Sometimes the only way to get a job done when working with a wide variety of data sources that might include periodic data…
Introduction Writing a technical blog is challenging in many ways. Finding topics to include in your blog is just one of the challenges. This story helps elucidate this challenge from my perspective.
Introduction I have discovered a pdf file that I forgot about and it isn’t something that you can find using a Google search, until now, that is. I have re-discovered Mahdi Hantush’s lecture notes from 1959-1960 on the theory of groundwater motion. I believe I got this file when I was a student at the New…
Introduction This post is to encourage you to watch an amazing movie. The movie took over 4 years to make. It is 1 hour and 41 minutes long and worth every second of your time. Trust me. You will learn a lot. Many thanks to my friend Neil (Neil on Twitter) for sending me this information…
Introduction This is blog post number 101, and I now have a clarity about 3danim8’s blog that I did not have before I started writing it a year and a half ago. It took me writing the previous 100 blog posts to gain this clear vision and to develop my mission statement. It only took me 536 days,…
Introduction I have been thinking a lot about how Alteryx and Tableau work together to help me innovate when solving business and science problems. In this article, I’m going to explain what I mean by the term innovation and how I use Alteryx and Tableau to achieve this term.
A New Vision This was a difficult article for me to write for a lot of reasons, but I am glad that I wrote it. In this two-part article, which will be my 99th and my 100th blog posts, I revisit my past and present a revised vision for my future as a technical blogger.