This post started with a simple picture from 7/11/1965 (48 years ago) that my sister posted to her Facebook page last week. 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”. This is the story of how I created that name. 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.
Jett is now 21 months old. Starting in the upper left corner with his newborn picture and proceeding along the rows from left to right, there is one picture from each of the months that he has been with us. It is amazing how fast the changes happen. He is independent, stubborn, and really, really…
This is Part 2 of a story that has taken over 17 years to make. Now it is time to “show the beef”, so to speak. I promised to UNLEASH this data set by visualizing it with Tableau. So here it goes…
This story contains data recorded over 8.5 years. It is a serious data dork story coupled with the love of vehicle performance.
Introduction It was about 7 months into my wife’s last pregnancy when things started to get scary. This is the story from that time in August 2011.
Introduction OK. I’ll admit it. I was a slacker for many years
Introduction Growing up in Chicago, there were a few times that I had fevers. The fevers were particularly bad when it was cold outside because my body couldn’t stop shaking due to the abnormal temperature imbalance between me and the air. However, I don’t think I ever had anything as bad as the fever I…
Introduction There is a technique that I frequently use in Tableau that I call “creating buckets”. Buckets represent categories that I create on the fly for a variety of data sets, for a variety of reasons. Buckets can be used instead of going into the original data sources to build additional fields to specify your…
Introduction I have never met Rich Roll. I have never spoken to him, and I am not affiliated with him in any way. One day I hope to meet him and I’ll do my best to make that happen. September 25, 2012 Was A Great Day For Me 2013 has been a great year for…
For 10 years I worked on remediating groundwater and surface water in Cape Cod, MA. This is a short story about that project and how Tableau was used to visualize the data collected over many years of operating remediation systems.
Introduction I frequently have to perform correlation analysis of large amounts of data. The analysis might involve comparing sales from one store to another, or it might involve sales at the same store from one time period to another.