Tableau Parameters: Let’s get Flexible
Parameters in Tableau Software are one of the more interesting and valuable aspects of the tool (when they work). As with most things, what you want to accomplish (with limited resources) can force some valuable insight, not to mention innovation. So, here’s the question: Can I make the parameter input dynamic like a quick filter? […]
Select a Chart
One of the requests we get quite often is can you set Tableau to have interchangeable charts on a dashboard so that when the user can select which chart to show in a particular place on a dashboard. Whilst not out of the box this is something that is very much possible using parameters and […]
Menu Navigation within a Tableau Workbook
There has been a conversation floating around on how to successfully navigate around different sheets of a workbook. On the face of it there doesn’t appear to be an obvious way of doing this in Tableau (perhaps Tableau 8.0 will address this!!). However it is possible and below is an example of a menu system […]
Leveraging Tableau at Carnegie Mellon University: Putting the Focus on the Quality of Data, Not Just the Quantity
Ted Curran, Executive Director of Finance of the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), took a leap of faith when considering a massive over-haul of the school’s data evaluation system. This system affected over 250 faculty and staff, and an over-haul would potentially uncover necessary alterations to the school’s reporting and analytics. […]
Drupal for Decision Makers: Innotech OKC 2012
I started my career as an artist, not a website developer. So it’s been a long, hard road convincing myself that I have the knowledge and background to be TEACHING other developers some of the technical skills that I’ve learned along the way. Developers can be an intimidating group, so a person needs to really […]
Move Over, Drupal Workflow … Workbench Moderation Does it Better
It’s pretty common for a client to require an internal approval process for updates and new content creation on their website. Often times, the person that’s changing/updating content is an administrative assistant, but for quality assurance reasons a manager or supervisor needs to give the final approval before the update is published. The Obvious Choice: […]
VPN Error 806: VPN Validate Server Certificate Re-Enables Itself
Summary This article describes one potential cause for receiving an Error 806 when attempting to connect to VPN via a PPTP connection. Additionally this article explains how to fix the ‘Validate server certificate’ by overwriting the rasphone.pbk file. Purpose A while back, I ran across a client that had a VPN utilizing PPTP. The user […]
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 […]
