Range Filter on a Text Dimension
Tableau provides many types of filter including range filters for dates and numerical data, but what of textual dimensions? For instance lets say we have a dimension with data in the following format, 3-digit months with a 2-digit year and a period used by the client to adjust the year end balance: Period Sales Jan-10 […]
UK Weather – 140 Years Visualised!
With our interesting November weather it couldn’t be a better time to look at how our weather has changed in the last 140 years…the results may surprise you.
How to Make Bubble Charts
Flowing data posted nice and clear instructions on how to make bubble charts using R. It’s a great post, and I thought it would be a good thing to show how to create the same chart in Tableau. Readers can compare and contrast the ease of each. Let me know your thoughts in the comments […]
The Joy of Six: One Against the Rest
This is the third post on simple tricks that are available in version 6. This one represents a common request we get. The client says “I want to compare the performance of x against everyone else.” What is x? Well, it could be Customers, Departments, Countries, anything. Parameters once again make this easy: Let the […]
Tips, hints, etc.
Ok bloggers and bloggees. I recently ran into this issue while rebuilding an E-series Dell Latitude. Let’s say your hard-drive on your Dell Latitude E6500 laptop needed to be replaced due to multiple disk errors reported on it. After you rebuild (aka completely format and reinstall Windows) your computer you will be faced with locating […]
The Joy of Six: Add an “About” Box
You may have seen my response to an Information is Beautiful post. Here’s the viz I used in that post: Wikipedia banner testsThe effectiveness of donation appeals on Wikipedia Powered by Tableau This uses sheet tabs to create an “About this viz” tab. It is good practise to credit data sources and date your vizualisation. […]
How to Backup McAfee WebWasher Unit Configuraton
Anyone who has had the privilege of administrating a McAfee Web Gateway (WebWasher) will know that with consistent use of these devices, their configurations tend to become more and more detailed with white list entries that you have input because users will from time to time, not be able to either access or utilize web […]
A FireFox add-on to be worried about – Firesheep
There has recently been released a new FireFox add-on to help people gain access to other user’s accounts. It is not the traditional attack that most people think about where they get your username and password. This new add-on for FireFox works against the cookies (little bits of information stored on your computer for a […]
How to Import Communication Settings into an UnManaged Symantec Endpoint Protection client from the Management Console
Situation: So you have an UnManaged Symantec Endpoint Protection client that is either not updating itself correctly or is not communicating with the Symantec Endpoint Protection Management Console. Here is how to migrate the correct communication settings from SEPM to the SEP client. Solution: 1st Step (Exporting the Communication Settings from SEPM) – Log into SEPM on […]
Customizing the User Registration Form in Drupal 6
If you are coming to Drupal from another cms, right away, you appreciate the flexibility of Drupal’s theming system. I wanted to take advantage of this on a recent project and create a custom form for the user registration. If you have been using Drupal for any period of time, you’ve already experienced the disappointment […]
