Data Doctor Download: The Advice Column No One Asked For
Dear Data Doctor, My organization just bought Tableau, and I have no idea where the EX**L to start. They have
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The Design of Everyday Data: Data Shaping in Tableau Prep for Amateurs
If I’m known for anything, it’s probably for how often I complain about badly shaped data. Donald Norman talks about
Continue ReadingMeasure Values, Toil, and Trouble: Avoiding the ‘Dead on Delivery’ Dashboard
Tableau has this nifty feature: measure values. Its swell companion, measure names, makes doing certain types of analyses painless. This
Continue ReadingWe are all made of stars – A Tableau Conference Recap of my New Data Heroes
Thasia Madison. Katherine Peterson. Brandon Hendrix. Alicia Bembenek. Phil Naranjo. Do you know these names? They’re my new heroes I
Continue ReadingData Exploration: Using Tableau Dashboards to See and Understand your data
I love Tableau like I love Giorgio Moroder. One gave me music and both gave me insight. Tableau tells me I
Continue Reading10 Intro Tips to Tableau When You’re Handed Someone Else’s Workbooks
AKA the guide to fake it until you can make it. I’ve been there. Every now and then, we start
Continue ReadingHow the EXCEL to do I trust this Tableau thing?
Let’s face it: change can be a bit like parachuting for the first time. You jump off a helicopter with
Continue ReadingThe Magic of Tableau: Small Multiples and Faceting by Design
Every now and then, one of my clients will ask a question that sends me down a rabbit hole. I
Continue ReadingHow the EXCEL does Tableau work?! The Humans’ Guide to Vulcans
Humans are mystifying creatures, as Spock can surely tell you. Much like humans, Excel is quite baffling. What started life
Continue ReadingIf I were New to Tableau Again: 3 Things No One Told Me
Some people write posts about things they’d tell their 22-year-old (or pick some other age) self. I wouldn’t have listened,
Continue ReadingHow the EXCEL do I find the flow with Tableau?!
I once spent months building a dashboard. In Excel. With pivot tables. And GETPIVOTDATA. And all sorts of lookups, calculations, conditional
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