Facebook Data in Tableau
Social Media data is one of the fastest growth areas in the BI world. The dashboard below shows one of the possible ways you could use Facebook data. This dashboard focuses on the demographic, who, where, how many and what they think. The data for this visual was collected using Interworks’ connector plus. Please get […]
Using Table Calcs to Hide Parts of a Viz
In one of most recent projects I was asked to show a running sum of a measure over all of time. However they only wanted to see a particular window in time of this running sum that was calculated since the start of time. This was a problem because if you try to filter […]
Tableau 8 – The Kraken Stirs!
Back with another blog post fast on the heels of #TCC2012! Now that we’ve seen Christian’s and Chris’ amazing introduction to Tableau 8 in the TCC Keynote, here are some of the Tableau 8 elements the team and I are looking forward to. Overall, this looks to be an amazingly promising set of features that […]
Symantec PGP WDE Setting up Bypass Script for Remote Machines
Security is always a concern for organizations especially when remote sites are involved. One of the ways this can be addressed is by using whole disk encryption (WDE). The big benefit of WDE is that prevents someone from gaining unauthorized access to sensitive data by pulling the hard drive out of a machine. For a […]
Smarter Legends
I’m back to the blog after a long hiatus and a trip just about around the world. I left work in San Francisco, flew to Raleigh-Durham to get married, honeymooned in London and Thailand, and have just wrapped up back to back great weeks at the Tableau Customer Conference in San Diego and working with […]
Symantec PGP WDE Hangs during Encryption/Decryption
Overview On rare occasions when attempting to encrypt or decrypt disks, PGP will initialize the action, but will hang. After initiating the ENCRYPT/DECRYPT button PGP will display the PAUSE button, however even after clicking the PAUSE button option nothing will occur. Rebooting the machine, and clicking on the button, will produce the same results. […]
Tableau 8 Beta – The Kraken
The Tableau 8 Beta was released to conference attendees last week, the beta program gets the software out to real world content producers and gives Tableau feedback on any bugs or last minute feature requests. Tableau do a great job with their releases, as each year they jump the competition in features and usability. Just […]
Google Analytics in Tableau V8
I’ve used several tools for extracting data from Google Analytics (GA) in the past so I was particularly excited to find out about the new connector in Tableau V8 straight in to GA. Once you click Google Analytics from the list of data sources, you have to enter your Google authorisation credentials. Then you get […]
Adding Custom Geocoding in Tableau
I am often asked in my classes when a user would need to use custom geocoding. In Tableau, custom geocoding is a little-known feature that is often underused. In my post today I’m going to go over why you would want to use custom geocoding, and how to add it once you do. I have […]
Is Windows Task Manager missing the menu bar and tabs?
I’ve recently seen Windows Task Manager in newer OSes like Windows 7, Server 2008, and Server 2008 R2 losing the menu bar at the top of the screen. I initially thought it was a virus or some other new sort of way to limit/prevent users from trying to close out a program/application that was running […]
