Think like a hacker pt. 3 – Break things!
Do you have a little destructive voice i your head? Put it to something constructive and try to break your dashboards and workflows to make sure they are robust. I show you how .
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Think like a hacker pt. 2 – Anticipate the future!
You probably don’t have a (working) crystal ball; however you should still anticipate what might be happening in the future when developing data assets.
Think like a hacker pt. 1 – Never do anything more than twice!
Keen to improve your data development skills? Start with this fundamental concept to not do things more than twice but rather refactor to make maintenance and further development easier.
Turbo Colourmap in Tableau
I’m sure if you work in visualisation, it won’t be long before you hear of “Turbo”, a new colour map developed by Google AI. Colour is a big topic so if somebody comes up with a new combination of colours which improves on existing schemes it’s interesting to see how …
When can a line be a bar?
When you work in Data Visualisation, there is no way around bar and line charts! They are arguably the most fundamental and versatile graphs out there. They are so versatile that Tableau’s Andy Cotgreave formulated a law around them: The longer an innovative visualization exists, the probability someone says it …
Buzz Wire in Tableau
Recently Tableau introduced Set Actions to Tableau Desktop. While they have a lot of analytical use, there is also a lot of fun to be had with them, so here’s a little game which wasn’t possible in earlier versions of Tableau. Set actions is the possibility to dynamically assign values …
#CertifiablyTableau – Tableau Desktop Specialist
Tableau’s Desktop Specialist Certification is a great way to prove your knowledge of Tableau. Here’s a quick guide on what you need to know and what you should prepare for.
Put yourself out there at #TC18!
I haven’t been to a Tableau Conference (yet) so for specific tips you might rather want to head over to Sarah’s blogs. I do attend all kinds of smaller events though and while the scale is different, the fundamentals of meeting people still apply! There are two main things to …
Analysing open orders per day
In the last couple of weeks I stumbled upon the same Tableau problem three times. Once it was my own problem, afterwards two other people mentioned similar problems. That seems reason enough to try to figure out a solution to it! Imagine the Tableau Superstore data set, you have one …
Triangles in Data Visualisation
I recently gave a guest lecture at the University of Auckland for the Data Visualisation Students. Andrew Eberhard, the lecturer, asked me to talk about myself and my background, my job and the industry, data visualisation in general and Tableau in particular. It was a bit strange to actually describe …