2014 BYU College Football Preview Visualized in Tableau
If you’re a sports fan like me, the next month can be one of the longest of the year. The World Cup and NBA Finals are over, the British Open just ended, and the baseball playoffs have not yet started. Thus, we are left with a long month of waiting for the college football season […]
Website Data Collection Made Easy Using XPath in import.io
The release of import.io saves headache and heartache for many data lovers. Using a simple interface and a little bit of magic, manual input of data from websites is shortened to just a few minutes. I can say from experience how pleasant and easy the interface is to use, even for beginners. With all great data […]
2014 OSU College Football Preview Visualized in Tableau
If you’re a sports fan like me, the next month can be one of the longest of the year. The World Cup and NBA Finals are over, the British Open just ended, and the baseball playoffs have not yet started. Thus, we are left with a long month of waiting for the college football season […]
Identify a VID PID for a USB Device
One of the more common ways organizations choose to address security on computers is to restrict what USB devices can be utilized within an environment. Depending on the program, there are a number of ways in which devices can be identified and filtered. In most cases, third party programs can utilize the vendor identification and product […]
Cleaning Up WinSXS Folder on Windows Server 2008 R2
I finally found some good information for cleaning up the WinSXS folder on new instances of Windows. I found the following site extremely helpful: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2014/05/13/how-to-clean-up-the-winsxs-directory-and-free-up-disk-space-on-windows-server-2008-r2-with-new-update.aspx. Consequently, I was able to get 7GB of data cleaned up from the WinSXS folder on the first Server 2008R2 machine I followed this process on. Here are the basic steps: […]
Evolution 2014 Viewer Numbers Visualized in Tableau
Two of my passions in life are data visualization and fighting games. These two passions haven’t overlapped a whole lot, but lately I’m finding more and more uses for data in taking my Ultra Street Fighter 4 game to the next level. Last weekend, July 11-13, was the Evolution Championship Series, more commonly known as […]
Tableau Essentials – The Status Bar
Concluding the Tableau workspace in our Tableau Essentials series is the overlooked Status Bar. It runs along the bottom of the application, beneath the Data Window and the worksheet tabs. See it pictured below in Figure 1. Figure 1: The Status Bar. Summary Information The three pieces of information on the left-hand side of the […]
How I Went from Investment Management to InterWorks Business Intelligence Consultant
I got my introduction to rigorous, fine-grained analytical reasoning while studying philosophy in college. I took to it like a fish to water. There are few things better to me than being immersed in information and emerging with the feeling that I’ve understood something new. It’s not just about how deep you dive. What matters […]
Redirect Loop on portal.microsoftonline.com After Trying to Log In
I’ve noticed this happens fairly often when trying to log into portal.microsoftonline.com. Firefox and Chrome will throw an error about a redirect loop. Seems like a conspiracy, Microsoft, because this never happens to me in IE! Workaround Use an Incognito tab (Chrome) or a Private Window (Firefox) and save yourself from having to wipe all […]
Tableau Essentials – Title, Caption & Summary
Building a compelling visualization with Tableau is all about telling a “story.” Within your data, there is a story. That may sound strange to new Tableau users or to data analysts in general, but that’s the best way to describe what it means to “guide” your report consumers to the most critical and important insights […]
