Author: Mark Bradbourne

Project 1 is in the books, so let’s take a quick look back are review 3 of the beautiful vizzes created from the Tableau Accelerator available on the Tableau Exchange. Using the above viz as our canvas, there are a few things that stick out as “have to fix” from the best practices standpoint.–BAN Alignment […]

I’m super excited to bring back Real World Fake Data for the 2nd Season. Real World Fake Data originally started with fake datasets for a quick recap. The aim of the project was to flood Tableau Public with beautiful, useable, business dashboards… and we as a community CRUSHED IT! If you search for #RWFD on […]

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 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 of […]

This is as much for me as it is all of you because I can’t tell you how many times I publish, then republish, and the 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 combining […]

Welcome back! RWFD Session #8 is in the books and I want to thank each and every one of you sharing your vizzes on Twitter and LinkedIn. Session #8 was based on retail transaction data, including loyalty memberships, coupon usage and the data went down to the hourly transaction level. Lots of directions you could […]

Every data set I’ve been blown away by the quality of submissions, and with each data set I see more an more participation and I’m equally blown away by that. So before I jump in to this recap I want to share a heart-felt thank you. Thank you for jumping in, thank you for sharing […]

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-workers 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 […]

I love watching the #DataFam in action, simply because it produces so much fantastic content. It can be blog posts, podcasts, vizzes and even swag being sold to support an intuitive! But every once in a while I get reminded of just how awesome the community is from a learning perspective. Someone recently tweet that […]

Insurance Claims and insurance data in general can be really fascinating data. When you think about how rates are set based on location, age, student grades, driving distance and even the color of the car, the actual analytics and analysis behind the data can be mind-boggling! The 3rd dataset from Real World Fake Data was […]

Dataset #1 is in the books, and thanks to all those who participated, tweeted and retweeted to get the project moving! Human Resources always feels like a dangerous area when it comes to the adoption of analytics. When we think adoption, we think “far and wide” but with HR data it can be extremely sensitive. […]