I’ve centralized all the dataset for Real World Fake Data on GitHub! So if you find a broken link, chances are the data is gone from the old locations and you can now find it on GitHuB! https://github.com/MBradbourne/real-world-fake-data If you go to the Real World Fake Data page, you can find links to all the […]
Author: Mark Bradbourne
Just 5 Minutes on Tableau Conference 2024
Tableau’s REGEX and ChatGPT
I have forever found REGEX to be a tough nut to crack. The syntax always confused me and on the rare occasion, I got the syntax right the results were wrong. At work, someone asked about extracting a consecutive 4-digit number from a string and for some reason my brain went “I wonder if ChatGPT […]
State of the Union @ Sons of Hierarchies
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 […]
The Importance of Feedback and Iteration
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 […]
Visualization Rut?
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 […]
Why Tableau?
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 […]
Tableau Public Checklist!
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 […]
The Dataviz Checklist AKA “Oh, I forgot to…”
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 […]
What are my Viewers doing on Tableau Server?
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. […]