How To Use and Have Fun With Baby Name Data
This story goes back to the 1970’s, the 1990’s, and the 2010’s. It contains references to the famous John Travolta and naming popularity. It is a cool story, at least I think so.
Text Analytics Improved With Tableau Clustering
In Part 2 of my blogging experimental analysis, I use Alteryx coupled with Tableau 10 clustering to perform some text analytics. This work answers a single question related to how certain words can improve blog readership rates.
Tableau Visualizes Jett’s Grossery Gang Collection
The Grossery Gang is a toy collection that was released this month (July 2016). My 4-yr old son, Jett, is totally mesmerized with this collection. This story is the beginning of our journey with Tableau and the Grossery Gang.
In Three Days of Teaching Tableau…
When I teach Tableau, I hit the wall. It happens to me every time. For this reason I am now asking myself: “Am I going insane?”.
Software Development Excellence At Tableau
The Tableau Desktop software development history exhibits several salient features that indicate excellent strategy, planning, vision, execution, and dogged determination. In this article, I explain why I believe this statement is true.
Alteryx Strategies For Solving Tough Problems
This article describes some concepts and methods I use when building more advanced workflows. In some ways, writing workflows is analogous to writing computer programs. You have think critically about what you want to accomplish. By breaking the problem down into small pieces and solving those, complex workflows become more manageable.
Tableau and Backwards Compatibility
This article discusses how you can make changes to the
XML codes in a *.twb file to move a workbook to an earlier version of Tableau. The technique can help you get out of a jam at times if you inadvertently used a version of Tableau that is too new for your Tableau Server or for Tableau Public publications.
Using Tableau to Animate Great Circle Flight Paths
I built upon an approach published by James Dunkerley to animate flight paths using a great circle approach. I’m going to use this method to introduce nice visualizations at my workplace.
Benchmarking the Alteryx Fuzzy Matching Tool
I’m a guy that likes to know how things work. By its very nature, interpreting results from a fuzzy matching algorithm can be a bit fuzzy. The reduce the fuzziness, I got down and dirty and did a couple of sensitivity analyses on the fuzzy matching tool to gain a better understanding of how it works.
The Emergence of Popular Baby Names in 2015
In part 2 of my baby name series, I determine the emerging popular baby names for boys and girls in 2015.
Why Data Science Is One Reason I Love My Life
This is a short story of why I love data science. This story was written deep in my brain during one night of restless sleep.
The 3danim8 BEAP1 – Visualizing Geographical Blog Expansion
Title Definition 3danim8 BEAP1 = 3danim8 Blogging Experiment Analysis Part 1 – Visualizing Geographical Blog Expansion
How To Videos For Tableau Training
These are Tableau technique and application videos that supplement my Tableau training course.
A Dynamic Image and Web Page Viewer Using Tableau
I had a feeling I could use Tableau to make an image and blog viewer that was dynamic and fully functional, but I wasn’t quite sure how to do it. Well, today, I revisited the concept and accomplished the task.
Using Tableau to Check Accuracy of Acurite Weather Station Data
I really like weather data. I also really hate inaccurate weather data. If you have an Acurite Weather Station at your house, you might want to be wary of the data it is collecting.