Going Behind The Scenes Of 3danim8’s Blog
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.
A Truly Unbelievable #Alteryx Flat-File Reading Result
Introduction I previously wrote a blog post about strategies for reading flat-files (fixed-format, un-delimited ASCII files) to get the flat-file data ready for Tableau analysis. That post was written before I became an Alteryx user.
Strategies for Using Fixed-Width ASCII files with #Tableau
Introduction It does not happen often, but whenever I get a flat file (i.e., fixed-width ASCII file) to work with, I have to work some magic on the file to get it ready for Tableau. This post describes how some of that magic happens.