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 […]
Use Tableau Table Calculations to Draw Lines
As with all things Tableau, some of the more surprising tricks happen when you’re asked a seemingly simple, yet surprising, question. In this case, it went something like this: ‘Yes, the line chart is good but can we get a ‘fake’ line in there that is always at a 45 degree angle no matter what […]
Vertica Tips: How to Reset a Lost Password in Vertica
Have you locked yourself out of your Vertica cluster, but still have SSH or console access to the servers themselves? If you’re using the default authentication method (not LDAP/Kerberos/GSS), you can temporarily use the “trust” Vertica client authentication method and reset the password. The steps to do so are detailed below. We’ll assume that you’re […]
Using Tableau URL actions to send an email
If you’ve ever wanted to be able to send an email to a colleague because the dashboard you’re viewing in Tableau is just too good to pass up, this might help you out. In the following dashboard, we’ll accomplish a few things: 1.) Use URL actions to send an email with a ‘To’ and a […]
