The site is back, thank goodness. A few weeks back I was hacked, and in my attempt to rescue the site, it got completely destroyed. I was devastated because I did not have a good backup (1st lesson learned). After getting updating the PHP version, and reinstalling the platform I started going through the Wayback […]
I had an awesome experience Sunday night into Monday morning. When I saw the data for Makeover Monday I immediately saw it as a chance to learn something new. I’m constantly in awe of Rody, Adam, and Ken for the things they do with curves inside Tableau, and for this set of data, I wanted to do an arc chart […]
I’ve felt stagnant lately and have been completely “Viz Blocked” and at times uninspired. I finally reached out to my extended family; the Tableau community. Sarah Bartlett was the first to chime in with some great suggestions. Next, Mike Cisneros came to my aid with a fabulous list of ideas to challenge yourself and break out of a […]
Recently, someone posed this question to me… now normally, I expect this question to come from a customer, but this one came from a co-worker because he was curious as to my thoughts on the topic. Now, I am of a different ilk; I am born of and from the community. People who join Tableau […]
Last summer, when I started to formulate the idea for Real World Fake Data, I wasn’t quite sure how it would be received, what the participation level would be like, and what the end result would be. The original inspiration came from a request that I had received as someone was looking for an example […]
If you ever look at the Tableau Public API data you will see a Revision number. This number represents the number of times you’ve made a change to your workbook or dashboard. It tracks minor revisions (x.2) and major revisions as far as I can tell. Here are my revision stats for Tableau Public. Most […]
This is as much for me as it is for all of you because I can’t tell you how many times I publish, then republish, and then probably WebEdit a dashboard before it’s “done”. The reason is that I forget the “little things” that I have to do every time I publish a viz… so […]
For the last 25 years and the next 25 years, the Holy Grail of BI and Analytics is, was, and shall be Adoption. On Tableau Server, with a little elbow grease, we can get down to the nitty-gritty details of what users are doing, and figure out where we can create enablement and training programs. […]