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Simple Histograms in Tableau
Histograms are yet another example of an efficient statistical tool that Tableau can create for you with ease. Created by well-known Statistician Karl Pearson, a histogram also functions as an effective approximation to a variable’s probability distribution function. A histogram is a frequency plot: it will...
The Art of Living
I’ve been thinking a lot about life balance lately. If I love what I do for my ‘work’, why would I want to stop doing it to ‘play’? I’ve struggled with these questions for a long time. Chuck Hooper (blog:twitter) shared his thoughts on this...
Using Custom Shapes in Tableau
Tableau comes preloaded with a great set of shapes already available for the user to choose from. Shapes are useful in scatterplots and in bulletgraphs, among other visualizations, so having a variety to choose from is necessary to create as dynamic a visualization as possible....
.twb vs .twbx: What’s the difference?
Whenever you save your work in Tableau, the default file extension is .twb, or Tableau Workbook. However, you have the option to save your work under a different extension, .twbx. A .twbx file is a Tableau Packaged Workbook, meaning it is the original .twb file grouped...
Get Your Web App On!
With iOS5 boasting such an wide array of HTML5 and CSS3 support there's no better time to start dipping your toes in the world of web app creation. So I thought I'd go ahead and put together a quick reference for all the little snippets...
Drupal: Render Images with Style
In Drupal 6, a module called Imagecache allowed developers to create custom styles to dynamically manipulate an image. We typically use Imagecache to scale and crop images to specific dimensions, but Imagecache can rotate images, deal with opacity, add borders, change colors and even change...
SOPA Congressional Picture
House Resolution 3261, more commonly known as SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, is garnering a great deal of attention lately, especially as major websites such as Wikipedia and Reddit are blacking out their services in protest of the controversial legislation. For proponents of SOPA,...
Veeam 6: Resource not ready: VI proxy
Encountered a weird issue in Veeam 6. We had migrated from one server to another, and the replica jobs suddenly all started hanging. The job as a whole showed "Waiting for processing resources availability", and the individual machines showd "Resource not ready: VI proxy". We had...
Veeam 6: Importance of Proxies in Replication
We have been using and recommending Veeam for quite some time. The local backup product has been very solid, and always improving. The replication piece of the software on version 5 was quite non-functional. If you're considering setting up replica jobs, make sure your support...
Data Connections – Making life easy for your fellow colleagues
In my experience most technical IT types love to name databases and data fields in weird and wonderful ways. A good example is this gem I encountered recently "ATV", take a guess at what that means. If you create a data field called "ATV" and...
Instruction for Tableau Dashboard Hidden in Tooltip
Are you creating a Tableau dashboard and need to leave instructions for users on how to use the dashboard, but you don't want to take up valuable space for these instructions? If so, this post is definitely for you. Using a Created Field, we will...
