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 run on this site”, but it would still prompt every […]
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 it is we’re trying to do here. The […]
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 Colm MácCarthaigh Unfortunately, I didn’t see this script on his […]
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 which users must not only log into in order to […]
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 need to crush out a quick report. InterWorks recently received […]
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, I have taken the liberty to visualize this data using […]
Veeam Explorer: An Overview and How-To Guide
Purpose of Article This article has been written to give some of my initial impressions of Veeam Explorer (currently in Beta) and to provide some screenshots of the ease of use. What is Veeam Explorer Veeam Explorer is a tool designed by Veeam to provide instant visibility into Exchange Backups. In a nutshell, this utility […]
Art in Tableau 2
This is our second belated post on producing art in Tableau. Well strictly speaking the visuals are more mathematically generated patterns with parameterised variables… Powered by Tableau
The Future of Data
‘The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age; since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader’s way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful lumber’ […]
Business Questions and Data Structures
While teaching an Advanced Tableau session in Washington DC last week, we ran across a great little puzzler that highlighted to me the value of discussing data structures. Working from one of Tableau’s standard data sets, the Superstore, the question was “Can we use Tableau to show which states had higher or lower sales than […]