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
Craig shows you how to use Tableau Parameters and sophisticated date calculations to compare your data in ‘apples for apples’ date periods.
Tableau Public download of workbook available
Check out my viz of the 2016 field, and interact to see which horses have winning attributes.
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.
The story of putting together The World of Food for a tableau viz contest in less than 24hrs
Hi Folks, For this last week i’ve been on a quest to seek fame and glory (or at least a free trip to a massive party) as an entrant in the TCC15 Las Vegas IronViz Championship. You see, last September I was lucky enough to be in Seattle to watch the 2014 Ironviz contest at the Tableau Customer Conference. It was…
Hello All, Have been doing some more data scraping (using import.io) of Horse Racing information lately, including now using Alteryx to cleanse, parse and join the data on it’s way to Tableau. I now have my process down to a 10 minutes to extract all of the days’ racing, and all of the career stats…
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…
CraigsBlog: Musings from a Data Viz fan... 