How Does Tableau 10.2 Shape Up?
Craig uses his experience of entering a Tableau Design contest to put Tableau 10.2’s Spatial connector through its paces
Craig uses his experience of entering a Tableau Design contest to put Tableau 10.2’s Spatial connector through its paces
Hi Folks, I’ve just finished putting together my entry for the 3rd and final Iron viz 2016 qualifying contest. The theme this time is an ‘Iron viz Mobile Edition‘ – and was all about designing a viz for mobile, tablet and desktop devices. It was a great opportunity to try out Tableau 10’s new device…
Hello All, I found out about the Tableau Quantified Self Viz Contest a bit late in the day, and in a scenario eerily reminiscent to my uni days, started working on it the day before it was due, and stayed up late at night putting on the finishing touches. I’m betting I’m up against some pretty talented individuals…
Hey there everyone! The Twenty20 Cricket World Cup is under way, and the final 10 teams have now been named and will be competing over the next 2-3 weeks for the world title. What better excuse to dust off my web crawler and do another iteration of Cricket Team and Player stats. So yesterday I…
Even though I had been using Tableau since early 2011, all of my creations had pretty much been for the company that I worked for – using corporate data. I knew about tableau public, and had checked out plenty of viz’s of the day, but didn’t really have anything really interesting to publish that was not…
If you are looking to provide added value when presenting someone with a set of numbers, it is very important to provide some context. Is that a good number or a bad number? Is that above or below target? Or, quite often the most important context is how is that number trending over time: i.e. is…
I’ve recently had a bash at data scraping and crawling – which is a mysterious black art with the objective of hoovering up information from public websites – so some analytics can be performed – of course using Tableau . I was guided in my first scraping adventure by this tableau public blog – which pointed me in…