Looking at 35 Years of NFL Data: Tableau 3-Minute Win Viz Challenge
My submission for the Tableau 3 Minute Win Viz Challenge - looking at 35 years of NFL data in only 3 minutes! The dashboard is also available on Tableau Public here....
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A Look at Film Trilogies: Tableau 3-Minute Win Viz Challenge
As part of Tableau's The 3-Minute Win Challenge, I decided to build a 3 minute Tableau viz using film trilogy data. The rules of the challenge: Start from scratch. Build something useful. Do it quickly. The video must be no more than 3 minutes long. Your dashboard must start with...
Three Underused Features of Tableau 8 and 8.1
In the spirit of the season and inspired by Tiffany’s recent blog post (Design Efficiently in Tableau) listed below are three underutilized features of the Tableau 8.x families that will save you some time during design and analysis. Clipboard data source Tableau Status Bar, worksheet summary...
Displaying Long Text Fields in Tableau from Excel
The Problem Many times, it is necessary to display content in Tableau in a verbose manner. For example: displaying comments from a survey or showing lengthy project descriptions or calls to action in an executive dashboard. Connecting Tableau to a database with long string fields or textarea...
It’s your round at the bar…
In this post, drawing some circular inspiration from the front cover of David McCandless’ Information Is Beautiful, I’m going to take a simple bar chart and wrap it around a circle, for no other reason than to see if it can be done in Tableau. You...
How to Fix Driver Issue on Windows Server 2008 R2
After updating the driver on a Dell TL2000 tape drive, the devices appeared in Device Manager with a bang, indicating the driver was corrupt. Error message: "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)" To fix this...
Design Efficiently – Hot Keys & Keyboard Shortcuts in Tableau
Are you as efficient as you could be in Tableau when in comes to finding functionality? Most of Tableau's functionality is designed for access with Drop-Down Menus, Right Click Menus and Toolbar Buttons, but the software also has over 250 keyboard shortcuts. Coming in from the...
Windows 8.1 Upgrade
If you are having problems finding the FREE Windows 8.1 Upgrade in the store, this is the best fix I have found. Note: This is only available if the version of windows is OEM, not an after market install. If the upgrade shows up in the Windows Store: Once...
Fixing Windows 2012R2 Hyper-V Role Failing at 99 Percent
In October 2013, Microsoft released Windows 2012R2, containing many improved features. A good article outlining those improvements can be found here: http://www.petri.co.il/whats-new-in-windows-server-2012-r2.htm# Although installing the Hyper-V Role is straightforward on a new system, I have seen couple of scenarios where the Hyper-V role will fail on...
SAML Integration in Tableau 8.1
One of the best new features of Tableau 8.1 is SAML integration. SAML is an open source web-based authentication standard that uses XML to authenticate users. In Tableau, SAML can be used as an alternative to trusted tickets, so you will still need to create the...
Using R with Tableau 8.1: Getting Started
One of the much anticipated features of Tableau 8.1 is integration with R. Following is a compilation of notes and observations about this integration for those of you beginning to use this new feature. This was done using 8.1 Desktop and R installed on the...
Tableau Pills: Measures and Dimensions
This is the first in a three part series related to the four types of pills in Tableau. The four pill types are discrete dimension, continuous dimension, discrete measure, and continuous measure. Grasping these concepts is important to understanding Tableau and relational databases in general....
