We are just 27 days away from Tableau Conference in Las Vegas (Nov 12-15), and there have already been several blogs on why you should attend, but here’s my personal take on why making the trek to the desert will be worth it. You will Learn, Be Inspired, and be a part of the Community. […]
This blog post will be short and sweet. First off, huge shout out to Hesham Eissa for winning the latest #IronViz feeder. Your viz was wonderful in so many aspects, although the element that caught me eye right off the bat was the chart type used at the very beginning of the dashboard. I am […]
Being from Cincinnati, I don’t think Cleveland has much going for it…besides their dot plots. They do dot plots really well (I know, I know its not named after the city, but it worked). I first came to know of this chart type from Jeff Shaffer’s blog post here about different bar chart variations. If […]
Here are three tips for ingesting your data into Tableau! Join Calculations Oftentimes when joining data from several different sources you will run into a time when two fields that seemingly should join, don’t. This is commonly due to the two fields not being in the same format. Let’s say we’re trying to join a […]
This month we had college football smack talk legend and data viz enthusiast Kyle Umlang as our guest host. His online presence was an essential boost for our monthly data challenge this time around. We want to thank Kyle both for the data and his involvement in #SportsVizSunday! With the return of college football, we […]
Although my day to day revolves around delivering analytics solutions to clients with Tableau, between the acquisition by Salesforce and some personal curiosity, I wanted to branch out and try to recreate a viz of mine in Power BI. I have had other jobs heavy in data visualization tools such as Spotfire and OBIEE, but […]
As I’ve said before, most of my sports vizzes evolve from some sort of “discussion” I get into at my favorite watering hole, O’bryon’s, in the Evanston neighborhood of Cincinnati. This viz was no different… Growing up a Cincinnati sports fan, I was the eternal optimist that the underdog could persist. We are the perennial […]
