A couple of weeks ago, I started capturing Twitter data that had the hashtag #Plantpower in the tweet. I wrote about the motivation for this in another blog post. This information is stored in a database that is automatically updated over time. This post is intended to help people learn how to use Tableau dashboards…
Today I was creating a scatter plot in Tableau using about 1.5 years of monthly data. Â All the data points looked like they correlated nicely except for the March 2013 data point. Â With March 2013 included in the trend line calculation, the scatter plot looked like this and the r-squared was 59.4%: If the outlier…
Rich Roll (and his wife Julie Piatt) have been the best teachers I’ve had in a very long time.  Rich is amazing and continues to deliver incredible content to many people through his podcasts, Twitter activities, website and his book Finding Ultra.
Today (8/8/13), CNN Money posted a story about Golfers and the “Major Money” they make by winning Major tournaments. Â Conceptually the visualization is very good but the execution is just OK (I can think of a few improvements). The biggest problem: the data is WRONG! Â Check it out for yourself by clicking here! Â They should…
The Term: The Cruise Effect. Definition: Gaining weight on a cruise ship is really easy. Losing that weight is not so easy. I would like to tell you about a two-month study that I just completed. The first month happened before I took a 5-day cruise from Charleston, S.C. to the Bahamas and back.
You can click here to see a Tableau dashboard that allows you to see who has been writing about Tableau on Twitter over time. Â The data embedded in this visualization has been captured using the Twitter API, and another post will be written about how that is done. Â You can search on any term you…
The Tableau website offers an enormous amount of valuable information to its users. Â The company Tableau has been very proactive in creating great training materials such as white papers, videos, articles, etc., and I’ve seen a continual buildup of this content over the past six years as a daily Tableau user. Â I really appreciate what…
I was curious to see how valuable the use of hashtags can be in performing some basic research. Â Two answer the question, I did a little study over the past couple of weeks. Â Over the past 12 days (7/20 to 7/31/13), I captured all the Twitter posts that had either #BigData or #Tableau in the…
Introduction The following work is circa October 2010, and at the time I was using Tableau version 5.2!
Are you a digital hoarder? Â I might be but I am committed to cleaning up my hard-drive! Â If you need to do some cleaning on your system, you can use Tableau to help you find the biggest offending files and to direct your clean-up activities. Â The reason for doing this is that you may be…
This post started with a simple picture from 7/11/1965 (48 years ago) that my sister posted to her Facebook page last week. Â This picture is shown below. In this photo, I’m shown sitting on the bottom step of my childhood house at 4700 West Race Ave in Chicago, IL.
Today I came across a nice tool called the TWB Auditor, by Andy Cotgreave (@acotgreave) of Tableau Software. Click here to learn about this tool.
In this simple example, I was developing some ideas on how to use concepts from statistical process control theory to evaluate the effectiveness of salesman over time.
I was in 6th grade when I came up with the name for my baby Boy – “Jett Black”. Â This is the story of how I created that name. Â This story is being written for Jett. If you like this article and would like to see more of what I write, please subscribe to…
I’ve just captured a little bit of my history.