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We’ve all been there! You are sitting at your desk innocently working away when all of a sudden a meeting invite arrives with the subject line “Dashboard Requirements Meeting”. Your first instinct may be “awesome, a new project AND they have requirements, or at least want to talk about them! Better than the last time […]

We’ve all been there! You are sitting at your desk innocently working away when all of a sudden a meeting invite arrives with the subject line “Dashboard Requirements Meeting”. Your first instinct may be “awesome, a new project AND they have requirements, or at least want to talk about them! Better than the last time […]

These are my opinions…  Zen Master is a somewhat vague concept in the English language that arose during the first half of the 20th century, sometimes used to refer to an individual who teaches Zen Buddhism meditation and practices. This usually implied a longtime study and subsequent authorization to teach  the traditions to others. In reality, there […]

Cascading parameters, or parameter list values that change depending on what is selected in other parameters, is something that has a lot of use cases, but at this point, at least when this blog post was written, is not supported in Tableau.  Cascading filters are possible, but often times you need to leverage the selected […]

In March 2019, I published my second viz to Tableau Public. I spent weeks collecting and cleaning the data, and another few weeks building out the dashboard. In theory, it was a really cool viz. Users could adjust a series of eight different parameters to look up and visualize over 4,000 unique NFL Team stats […]

I’ve talked about Viz Block before… getting a data set, and being 100% block on a direction, a story, or a shred of inspiration. Week 40 of 2019 I got on the Struggle Bus once again… London Population data with a forecast as long as my arm. Lots of great data, and while I tried […]

Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme… Beauty versus the Beast. Imagine this scenario (I don’t think it will be that hard)… You work for a company that has purchased Tableau (YEAH!) and you are about to receive your first project for this smokin’ new data visualization software! “Please create this tabular […]

I experienced my first escape room a couple of years ago while in Toronto, Canada for work… it was a team building event. I totally had a blast figuring out the puzzles and unlocking the next puzzle. It’s all very cerebral, and heart pounding at the same time as you watch the clock tick down […]