3 Way Venn in Tableau Upgrade
This post is an upgrade to my original 3 Way Venn post, or at least is a better alternative as it gives the right numbers loads faster and is easier to make! This method doesn’t use sets or anything complicated within Tableau but rather it uses a self join on the data tables. I am using […]
Tableau Essentials: Chart Types – Line Charts (Continuous & Discrete)
The line chart is ideal for when you want to illustrate trends over time. To use the line chart, you must have a date field. In the below example (Figure 1), we are comparing the quarterly profit by SubRegion over the course of several years. Each colored line represents a different sales region. Figure […]
Tableau Viz: Reddit Watches Peyton Manning Make History
For those of us who cannot live without both the internet and NFL football, Sunday afternoons no longer involve staring at just one screen. The television is dedicated to the game, my phone is dedicated to fantasy football and my laptop is for Reddit game threads on r/nfl. Reddit has a thriving football community that […]
Market Segmentation Using Tableau and R – An Example in Baseball
Does your organization use data to better inform its marketing? Have you heard the words “segmentation” or “micro-targeting” thrown around and don’t quite understand what it means? In the spirit of the World Series, I give you an example of customer segmentation using baseball. The goal here is going to be two-fold: Use data from […]
A Look Back at the 2014 Ruckus Big Dogs Conference
Keith Johnson and I just finished wrapping up the 2014 Ruckus Big Dogs Conference two weeks ago, and it was a doozy. Some of you might remember last year’s conference in sunny Miami. Ruckus Wireless came through again this year with another dynamite location: Las Vegas. This was our second conference to attend, and it […]
Tableau Essentials: Chart Types – Side-by-Side Circle View
The side-by-side circle view is a variant of the circle view. The side-by-side circle allows you to add more measures to be compared next to each other for a richer analysis. To examine the side-by-side circle view, let’s take a hypothetical retail company and use our visualizations to conduct an analysis. In the circle view […]
What I Did in September – TC14 Plus a Few Other Things
Blogging was impossible for me immediately following the 2014 Tableau Conference. I left Seattle on the Friday morning of conference week and spent the next day in Portland doing some consulting work. Notably, our client picked me up in a Tesla Model S (Tableau clients do well). I returned home late on the Saturday afternoon following […]
Fun with Finances in Tableau: Stepping Up My Game with Action Filters
Last time out, I created a very simple and straightforward dashboard based on my family’s finances up to this point in the year. You can find that original dashboard here. While I’m all about making things less complicated than they need to be, I thought it might be fun to it up a notch and […]
A Brief History of Graphs
Next week, there is a little conference going on in the great city of San Francisco called Graph Connect. Graph Connect is the only conference of its kind. It’s a conference that focuses solely on the world of graph databases and applications, featuring the leading graph database, Neo4j. In honor of this conference and my […]
Windows Search Not Working in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
Setup I recently ran into this problem when deploying templates of Windows Server 2012 inside of VMware. The template machine had been pre-configured by another engineer that made use of Windows Search during setup under the local Administrator account. When sysprepping the image, we utilized a profile copy command in order to copy our profile setup […]