It was at the 2018 Tableau Customer Conference in New Orleans that I first saw the power and potential of Set Actions. After watching Bethany Lyons (self proclaimed spiritual leader of the #LIBERATESETS movement), presenting her Ready, Set, Action session – I was truly blown away! This new release 2018.3 feature is going to be…
I gave the team some raw data via a webscrape of racenet.com.au, plus some history stats of winners since 1983. They had to use Alteryx to do quite a lot of parsing in order to get the data into a Tableau friendly format
European Airports – Cooked 3 ways! Craig gives you laugh while he shows you how his non-entry into the Europe Iron Viz Tableau was cooked up. Includes some tricky spatial analytics using Alteryx, custom shapes, and a sankey chart.
Hi Folks, It has been a while between blogs. Happy to say that I’ve been inspired to get back on the muse by a colleague that I met virtually back in August. Robert Crocker was also one of the presenters at the recent Tableau Fringe Festival APAC 2017. Robert did a nice piece on Doodling,…
Craig uses his experience of entering a Tableau Design contest to put Tableau 10.2’s Spatial connector through its paces
Find out how Craig used Import.io web scraping and Alteryx API connector (courtesy of Interworks) to extract race history data, and turn it into valuable analysis using Tableau.
Hi Folks, I’ve just been putting together an automated daily Alteryx data scrape into a Tableau viz – for analysing the Futures market for the Melbourne Cup 2016. I have noticed one particular horse is getting quite a lot of attention, with the odds moving significantly over the last week or so. I’ve made a small investment, and…
Hi Folks, I have been lucky enough to get a 45min slot at the Tableau Fringe Festival APAC edition – which is a virtual conference with presentations by some really awesome speakers from the Tableau community. I will be diving deep into my bag of visualisation consulting tricks, and presenting a selection of my favourite Tableau…
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…
The mobile SuperStore Sales Exec never had it so good. A great story on the design of a Tableau dashboard to keep you on track for that bonus!. Includes a link to downloadable version to see how it all works under the hood.
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