I Wish #Tableau Would Change How Annotations Work
Introduction I don’t usually gripe too much about Tableau functionality, so when I do it is usually because I have had to deal with the problem over and over and over – through many years.
Benchmarking Data Reshaping in #Alteryx
Introduction I have written a few articles about the necessity of data reshaping when you do a lot of work in Tableau. To read my most comprehensive article, click here. In that article, I show several examples of data reshaping, with the examples increasing in complexity throughout the article.
How To Build An #Alteryx Workflow to Visualize Data in #Tableau, Part 4
Introduction This is part 4 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 the previous parts of this series, click the blue links for Part 1, Part 2, or Part 3. In a recent headline it was reported that, 2014 was the hottest…
Hard Jobs Made Easy Using #Alteryx
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.
I Wish #Tableau Would Give Us A Way To Document Our Figures!
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.
How To Build An #Alteryx Workflow to Visualize Data in #Tableau, Part 3
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 1 or part 2.
How To Build An #Alteryx Workflow to Visualize Data in #Tableau, 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 free climate data available from…
How To Build An #Alteryx Workflow to Visualize Data in #Tableau, Part 1
Introduction This is one of the those blog posts that is more of a 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.
How I Evaluate My #Tableau Blog Effectiveness
Introduction In this article, I evaluate the effectiveness of my Tableau blog. To do this, I use Tableau fueled with data that was extracted from 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…
How to Extract Hyperlinks From Excel Formulas To Use In #Tableau Dashboards
Introduction I have scraped a wide variety data from websites over the years. Many times I have had to pre-process the data before using it in Tableau.
You Should Consider Following These #Tableau Bloggers
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 of good content. In a sense, this blog post could be considered…
Helping You Find Value in #Tableau Blogs
Introduction I have been writing a lot of Tableau articles that are gathered together in a place 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…
Using #Tableau For Real-Time AAU Basketball Score Reporting (Knoxvegas)
Introduction For the past four years (2011-2014), I have used Tableau to produce real-time AAU basketball results during a big tournament.
Using #Alteryx To Process Non-Ideal Flat-Files
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.
Working Notes For Drawing Polygons Using #Alteryx and #Tableau
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.