This is the first in a planned series where I document my adventures in the exciting world of Tableau server. I've been using Tableau server ever since I first found Tableau, but for the first time, I am getting into the admin side of things. I might even end up
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
How to filter data when you don't have the data?
Filters in Tableau are great, they let you get rid of data that you are not interested in a hone in on the data that you do. They do however have one big flaw. You can only create a filter if you have the data. What do I
Wednesday, 27 July 2016
Don't use network drives with Tableau, use Network Locations
We have users that need to use Excel workbooks as datasources in their Tableau dashboards which are then published to Tableau server. However the problem lies with how Windows and Tableau use the network path names. Most people will connect to a shared drive by mapping a network
Thursday, 7 July 2016
A Quick way to display decades on a continuous axis without a calculation
During #Zensontour we did #Makeovermonday using the Global Temperature data from week 20. This has the median temperatures per month. Plotting it as a line chart gives something like this But what i wanted was to have the decades displayed on the axis. I could use a calculated
Monday, 14 March 2016
Busting the DataViz Myths one by one
Well its been a long time but here i am blogging again. Its been a busy few months, which i will be blogging about in due course but first i want to introduce to you my new site http://www.datavizmyths.com/ So what is this new site about i hear
Sunday, 4 October 2015
The Challenge With Visualising Gun Deaths in the US
A few days ago President Obama asked the worlds media to do a dataviz for him. He asked them to show the number of deaths due to terrorism compared to the number of deaths due to guns. This was prompted by the most recent mass shooting in the
Monday, 2 February 2015
5 Tips for better Tableau Story Points
5 Things about : Story Points This blog post has been going around my head for a while now, and though the encouragement of two of my dear Tableau friends I have finally put finger to keyboard. Stories are a powerful way of eliciting an emotional response and
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
The Rule of 5 for slope graphs
Consider this slope graph viz. Now answer me this, what did the Washington Nationals Salary drop to? Tricky eh. One of the problems with Slope graphs is that they get messy very quickly. This is turn makes it hard to decipher whats going on. You only have a
Friday, 24 October 2014
Leaking the Zen Master Email
Blowing the whistle on the Tableau Zen Masters Ok, this blog post might not be up for very long once The Man sees it and takes it down, forcing me to go into hiding in some embassy somewhere. But while i can I am going to let you
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
Using Parameters to search a free text field
One of the pet hates of anyone working in data is that dreaded free text field. You know the one, every system has one. That little white box that just invites the user to enter what ever little collection of text they want to add. In an ideal
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