The good people over at the Species at Risk Public Registry, sararegistry.gc.ca, which is part of the Government of Canada, provide website visitors with a list of species monitored by the Ministry for the Environment and Climate Change for any changes in the sizes of...
Four years ago, I wrote a blog post speculating about future business intelligence workflow and tools for business information systems that would provide the capabilities of high-priced legacy enterprise business information systems but at a fraction of the cost. Part of that post included a...
Here’s the scenario: I work at Global Superstore. We sell products from lots of different sub-categories. I can always reference this from our Master Inventory File: I get weekly sales data sent to me, and my job is to make a weekly report for each region...
A couple of summers ago, I read a short 577-page book on the dynamics of wealth and income inequality by the French economist Thomas Piketty. This book had kind of become a huge deal in the field of economics. One reason was its huge scope....
Scorecards are used to observe KPI’s over time, are incredibly valuable for real-time business insights and are available for use in Portals for Tableau! This post will go into how to create the example below: Before you begin, make sure you have Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server...
Automating Tableau Server Backups Tableau recently released the latest evolution of their analytics platform: 2018.2. Unless you have been living under metaphorical data analytics rock, you should already know that with this release Tableau is coming with a whole range of new features. With support for...
Yet another great project came out this month from the folks at Viz for Social Good. This time around, we’re exploring data from the United Nations Development Programme to help build a crisis risk dashboard to assess risk and crises in the Sahel region of Africa. The...
A client recently had a challenge wanting to use Exasol’s User-Defined Functions with a Python script, but they were having a hard time coming up with the right syntax to get it working properly. There’s a good deal of documentation out there, though much of...
Portals for Tableau have had the ability to show a sort of live view of the workbooks and dashboards within those workbooks as a part of the navigation for a while now (see this post for more info); however, the portal treated each dashboard as...
There is an example we do in the Tableau Desktop Intermediate course to look at how to union your data. In the example, we use Tableau’s Union function to append different sheets, labeled as different quarters, from a single Excel file into one long table...
Python is quickly becoming the first programming language exposed to non-tech folks. While working on my data pipeline, I found a perfect example of how you can use Python to bring external data into your reporting environment – especially when the host of this data...
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?!? It's officially football season, meaning armchair quarterbacks, pick six packs, and, of course, fantasy football! George Chahrouri of Pro Football Focus joins our panel of sports nuts led by Chris Sanders to talk about collecting data on every player on...
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