Earlier this week you heard from Kevin, talking about the new user interface enhancements in Tableau Desktop 9. Today, I will be introducing the new data connections that now come as standard within Tableau 9.0 In Tableau Desktop 9.0, there have been some fantastic UI improvements...
I met Tableau Zen Master Andy Kriebel at the first Tableau Customer Conference (2008) at the Edgewater Hotel in Seattle. Andy and I happened to sit next to each other at a meal, and we discovered that we both lived in Atlanta. Later that year,...
Today, we’re going to cover labels and some of the tricks and tips you can use with your visualization. To start, let’s take a simple horizontal bar chart. Our bar chart shows the penetration of Internet usage of countries with 200 million people or more. Now,...
One of the most important aspects of security and data governance is establishing and enforcing a strong password policy. In 2012, LinkedIn had 6.5 million passwords cracked and eHarmony lost another 1.5 million. If 2014 has taught us anything, it’s that hackers and the threat of...
We received notice on a server that the World Wide Web Publishing Service had stopped. This happened to be an Exchange 2010 server, so all webmail functionality stopped. I attempted to start the service manually but received an error that a dependency was unable to...
Today, we’ll look at some formatting ideas that you can use on your next visualization. Specifically, we’ll look at using custom shapes to serve as our marks. Here is a simple table illustrating where players from the 2014 World Cup play their club football: Club Location field...
Now that we have some basics out of the way and a few chart types in our arsenal, it’s time to move onto some of the finer points of data visualization in Tableau. First, let’s talk about formatting. Most of us know the saying, “don’t judge...
I met Ramon Martinez via Twitter before I met him in person. Ramon is a fellow Tableau Zen Master and works as a specialist in health metrics at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO). The first dashboard of Ramon’s that I recall seeing was this...
Early last year, I got some bad news after a routine doctor visit. The specifics are unimportant, but the gist is that I needed to make some significant changes in my life while I was still young enough to do so. I’ve always been a...
A couple years ago, Josh Varner was a consultant working on our BI team at InterWorks. The last time I saw Josh (when he was still on our team) was at the Vertica Conference in Boston. I was leaving early for a gig in New...
A couple weeks ago, I came across a College Football Playoff blog post that mapped the distance of each team’s campus to each player's hometown. While detailed and visually appealing, you could not interact with the map – making it impossible to do more detailed...
Of the hundreds of data visualizations I’ve seen, only a few stand out as exceptionally striking. The design, subject and uniqueness all come together perfectly. One of them is the animated Wind Map at Hint.fm. I can practically feel the air moving along the smooth, sweeping...
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