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 […]
Category: Tip and Tricks
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 […]
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 […]