Kickstarter has been making waves in recent months as the premier place for crowd funding. Projects range from big to small, from purely entertainment to potentially life changing. There’s a lot to love about this dream factory. However, there’s been controversy as well. All projects are not always what they appear...
It should come as no surprise that data is not always as it seems. Well, maybe not that big of a surprise to the data analysts out there. After all, most of us are swimming in data. And it might not have had time to...
It's common for Tableau Server users to want to embed content into a separate web application while maintaining tight security restrictions. If you want your web application to handle all of the authentication, it's possible to use the trusted ticket authentication system offered by Tableau...
In my last post (Part 1) I showed you how to create a combination area fill & symbol map. Last week a client in Washington, DC asked me if it was possible to create these types of maps and display specific regional groupings of states. The...
Building on the KPI tutorial from Tableau found here, I would like to add a neat trick to increase your data-pixel ratio and remove additional clutter from your KPI charts by using a custom shape. The premise is based on Stephen Few and Edward Tufte's...
Loading data into Teradata can be done quickly and fairly easily using the Teradata FastLoad utility, but the utility isn’t exactly friendly to new users. This article provides a quick introduction into the FastLoad utility, which is included in the free Teradata Tools & Utilities...
Fresh off a West Coast swing that took me from the Central Valley to Silicon Valley and into San Francisco, I'm back in Oklahoma for Independence Day. This quick blog post explores a question that always comes up during Tableau Training sessions - "What locations can...
While in Chicago conducting a training last week a client asked me whether you can offer a hide/show option for reference lines on a published dashboard. My immediate thought was Tableau doesn't have a native option to support this, but quickly my mind turned to...
Last week, a client in Washington D.C. (and several clients before) have asked me about building combination maps that combine the new filled map style with the symbol map. This is not a Show Me option but is pretty easy to do once you understand the...
Managing Tableau Server security can be a lot of work, especially when you're dealing with tons of users from all over the enterprise. Fortunately, Tableau has an easy way to set this up once and let users manage it themselves using Active Directory Groups (aka...
At 27,000ft on the way home from the Big Apple (New York City) with another quick blog post. No mud, barbed wire, or fire pits here, sorry to disappoint. I had a question come in about Multi-Measure Dual Axis Charts and I thought this might make...
I’m confident the sudden, all-encompassing change in pace for ‘data’ over the last few years has been fueled by our need to want more information out of our world. The immediacy and sheer speed with which it arrives is faster than most of us have...
I was writing a query today and came across a set of data with an annoying leading space. Or what I thought was a leading space. My first instinct was to throw this around my field: LTRIM(RTRIM([SKU])) But the space was still there. OMGWTFBBQ! After...
What do Tableau Software, Business Intelligence and User Experience have in common? Combined, they represent the New Age of Data. More specifically, they push data visualization, data personalization and data emergence to higher levels of understanding. At the present moment, we are seeing a massive...
Hello from 25,000ft! Today I'm en route to Louisville, Kentucky, but yesterday I had a blast running the Warrior Dash along with 15-20 of the InterWorks crew. We all had a great time in the mud, and while we’re not necessarily out to win, everyone...
Creating visualizations in Tableau that are out of the ordinary are always fun. If you visit the Visual Gallery at Tableau's website you can see great examples of this. My personal favorite is "An Analysis with Teeth" Like the analysis with teeth, I leveraged the...
On the walls, in our emails, or on our desks, the calendar is everywhere. We use calendars to book events or meetings, remember birthdays, verify bandwidth for client coverage, etc...
Dashboard space is highly valuable, and there are many suggestions out there as to what is a best practice when creating. One thing that most everyone agrees on is that too much clutter is just confusing to the end user. It makes the dashboard harder...
Building time series charts is easy in Tableau. But what if you want to display a month-year time series? There are a few ways to do this, but this video shows you the fastest way. ...
In a perfect world, we'd have a single comprehensive data source to meet all our analytical needs. When that can't happen, I frequently turn to Tableau's Data Blending functionality that allows me to access and combine data stored in multiple systems. Data blending is a fantastic...
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