These are articles that focus on the usage of Tableau, the data visualization software.
In this article, I give links to monthly aggregated temperatures, as well as decade aggregated results. These files are much smaller than the daily data files and should be easier for most people to render in Tableau or their favorite graphics package.
This is the first article of a series that will give download links to the processed global climate data sets I have developed. This article contains daily temperatures from monitoring stations around the world.
June 6, 2017 was a great day for me. I was able to discuss three years of work with a room full of people at the Alteryx 2017 Inspire Conference. It was dream come true.
It has taken me eight months to finish this series on achieving data comprehension. This is the third and final installment that explains how I have learned to be a data exploiter. You will need to read the article to find out what that means.
I presented this talk on May 4, 2017 in Austin, TX, at the Tableau customer summit. I want to say thanks to Brenda Akers for asking me to do this because it gave me a chance to share my work from the past few years.
There might be a time when you want to search for something in a dashboard, and this something might come from different fields. For example, you might want to search for someone based on their name OR their email address. A solution to this problem is shown in this article.
This is my second short Tableau data story. The theme is motorcycles and being a data dork. You have to read the article for proof of why I believe I am a naturally born data dork.
Now over 30 years ago, the summer of 1986 was a fun one for me. In this short story, I relate some climate data back to my life, with the focus being on July 31, 1986.
Some stories do not need pictures. This is one of them. I don’t often write them this way, but sometimes the truth must be told without accoutrements and embellishments.
Tableau was used to visualize about eight years of groundwater cleanup data. The total volume of groundwater that was remediated and the total mass of contaminants removed was visualized in Tableau dashboards.
One night after getting frustrated with helping my son complete some Excel homework, my dreaming brain made me watch a movie called “A Nightmare on Excel Street”. You have to read the article to understand what that means.
Sometimes real work leads to auxillary work that is needed for another purpose. That was the case in this article in which I took a deep dive into computing and visualizing population densities across the US. The results were fascinating and made a good case to share in this blog.
The VizPainter has delivered another masterpiece. This trail-blazing Tableau master used a shape file that had a time series history of the United States to win the most recent Iron Viz Competition against some amazing Tableau artists.
This is test 6 of a series that compares Tableau to Power BI. The purpose of this test is to compare and contrast each program’s ability to read and work with shapefiles.
This is a fun article. I created a Tableau dashboard that allows us to view 55 years of temperature data to see if global warming is impacting where we live. When you spend a little time using this tool, you will have a better appreciation of the variability of weather and the difficulty of concluding anything about global warming.