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You may have noticed that our blog doesn’t allow you to make comments. We can assure you that this is not because we don’t value conversation! It’s simply taking us time to implement all the features we want on the blog. Much as we’d love to be blogging full-time, clients have pressing demands and we […]
World Aid – Donors and Receivers
With the UN MDG summit underway in New York, Jonathan Glennie of The Guardian has an interesting blog looking at countries contributing to world aid and the countries receiving aid. The blog contains the following visualisation looking at donators and receivers of aid in 2007: Whilst I found this viz engaging and it did get […]
UK Tableau Users Group Meeting, 27th Oct, 2010
The Data Studio team are back from an amazing conference in Seattle (we’ll put some pictures up soon!). Next up, we will be taking a trip up to lovely London town to meet up with some of the many other keen users of Tableau. Our regular blogger and all-round good guy, Andy Cotgreave, will be […]
The 5 Most Used Solo Executables By This Technician by Todd Walls
Whether your an IT professional, computer enthusiast, or simply use a computer for fun in your down time (I think we just covered 90% of the world population here) you either may or may not know the benefits of solo executable file utilities. Whether do or don’t know the benefits of these neat little utilities, […]
Mercury prize winners: the XX
The XX won the Mercury Prize last night. It’s a great album. I personally would have preferred Wild Beasts or the Villagers, but they were a little “out there” for a thinly-veiled sales generator. You can see my Mercury Prize Tableau viz below (or click here for a full screen version). I also created a […]
Tableau Tooltips: Conditional Formatting
This is the second post about tooltips. In this post, I will describe a technique to add conditional formatting, of a sort, to your viz. This isn’t a natively supported feature in Tableau (although it would be lovely if it was!), so you have to do a bit of extra work to do it. I’ve […]
VMworld Day 2 Keynote
This morning is the big keynote – this room is huge and the people are filing in steadily. The keynote started with a video about what the cloud is, and immediately fired a joke at Oracle. We are all dumb terminals in the cloud! The cloud is a collective of vast resources, and catching pizza […]
Tableau tooltip tips (pt.1)
Tooltips are the missing link between a mark and its underlying data. They provide a valuable opportunity to explain more about the chart without requiring the user to examine the underlying data. The motivation for these posts was seeing so many vizzes on great charts on Tableau Public being let down by the publisher leaving […]
How to Recreate QuickLaunch Toolbar in Windows 7
If you’re like me, upon using Windows 7 for the first time, you were actively impressed by all of the new features Windows 7 has to offer, from the new aesthetically more pleasing interface to the more functional improvements such as window docking and the versatile gadgets toolbar. However in my case, after all the excitement faded away […]
How to setup QoS for your Shoretel Phones – Get Rid of the Static!
Call Quality issues on VOiP phones can be hard to troubleshoot, and even harder to fix. It doesn’t help when everyone notices it and complains about it to you regularly. Luckily this guide will teach you everything you need to know to get your ShoreTel phones sounding great. Most likely what is happening when you […]
