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. […]
ICYMI, here is my talk from the Tableau Fringe Festival on The Power of Color
In October of 2016 I started publishing work out to Tableau Public, and when I started I didn’t give my personal “style guide” much thought. I would let the format, fonts, sizes and colors go where my mind wandered and didn’t give it a second thought. I look at my portfolio now and I cringe […]
I hate my Tableau Public Profile …well, it’s a love/hate relationship… Let me explain. In October of 2016 I published my first viz and I thought it was so cool. It was cool to share it with others. It was cool to get feedback. It was cool to learn and try new things. To date […]
The Problem Recently, a case came up where we wanted to show the visualization in a slightly different way within a viz in tool tip. The problem was that the dimension would filter down to the single item, even with filter=”“ removed. This is functioning as designed, but we wanted to see a bar chart […]