Select a Chart
One of the requests we get quite often is can you set Tableau to have interchangeable charts on a dashboard so that when the user can select which chart to show in a particular place on a dashboard. Whilst not out of the box this...
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Menu Navigation within a Tableau Workbook
There has been a conversation floating around on how to successfully navigate around different sheets of a workbook. On the face of it there doesn't appear to be an obvious way of doing this in Tableau (perhaps Tableau 8.0 will address this!!). However it is possible...
Leveraging Tableau at Carnegie Mellon University: Putting the Focus on the Quality of Data, Not Just the Quantity
Ted Curran, Executive Director of Finance of the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), took a leap of faith when considering a massive over-haul of the school’s data evaluation system. This system affected over 250 faculty and staff, and an over-haul would...
Drupal for Decision Makers: Innotech OKC 2012
I started my career as an artist, not a website developer. So it’s been a long, hard road convincing myself that I have the knowledge and background to be TEACHING other developers some of the technical skills that I’ve learned along the way. Developers can...
Move Over, Drupal Workflow … Workbench Moderation Does it Better
It’s pretty common for a client to require an internal approval process for updates and new content creation on their website. Often times, the person that’s changing/updating content is an administrative assistant, but for quality assurance reasons a manager or supervisor needs to give the...
VPN Error 806: VPN Validate Server Certificate Re-Enables Itself
Summary This article describes one potential cause for receiving an Error 806 when attempting to connect to VPN via a PPTP connection. Additionally this article explains how to fix the ‘Validate server certificate’ by overwriting the rasphone.pbk file. Purpose A while back, I ran across a client that...
Google Chrome: Remove Java Needs Your Permission to Run Message
This could actually happen with any site, but I noticed it on a daily basis with LogMeIn. When using Chrome to access our LogMeIn clients, I kept getting prompted with this Java message everytime I tried to connect to a machine. I would click "Always...
You Didn’t Get The MVP. Here’s What You Need to Know.
So you didn’t get an email from Microsoft welcoming you into the MVP program yesterday, and now you’re wondering, “What happens next? What does all this mean?” First off, you’re not alone. I didn’t get that email either. Let’s step back a moment and think about what...
Virtual Piano Chords and Scales as a jQuery plugin
Years and years ago I was trying to understand how chords and scales related to each other visually and mathematically. I came across a lot of informative posts, but by far the most helpful app I came across was a virtual piano chord/scale creator, by...
Automating Dashboard Delivery Using Tabcmd
After working in Seattle with the wonderful folks at Tableau for the last week I was reminded of the incredible significance of Tableau Server. I have found that we often look at Tableau Server as a self –service tool. We see it as a tool...
Create a basic KPI Chart and Calculated Field Formatting in Tableau
When you are just starting out with Tableau it will often surprise you how easy it is to replicate tasks that might take hours in Excel but just moments in Tableau. While formal training is an excellent start to becoming an expert, sometimes you just...
Visualizing Consumer Confidence… correctly
Recently NASDAQ OMX released their NASDAQ Economic Calendar Reports on Facebook. One of these reports attempted to explain that consumer confidence rose 6% month-over-month in July 2012. Unfortunately the visualization was so poorly designed that this information is almost impossible to extract. Thankfully for you,...
