Saving Time in Tableau 10 with Cross Database Filters
For a long time now when you wanted to filter multiple data sources you'd have to use a parameter in Tableau. This worked well but had is not without its own li...
VizBin : Animated Tableau Dashboards without Coding
Today I'm announcing a new side project I stood up aimed at helping people create more compelling visual stories online. This project, VizBin, is a utility for ...
How Medical Costs Vary by Region
Data updated 2016-09-21 from CMS.govOriginally posted 2013-05-17 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (cms.gov) released a report detailing Medicare P...
Make Real Sh*t
This is another rant from a Millennial that has been working in corporate America since the late 90's. When I grew up there was a belief that you weren't being ...
How to Make Location Aware Tableau Dashboards
One lesson I learned a long time ago was that we are all vain when it comes to data viz. Generally, we all care more when a data viz is about us. I've seen this...
Top 3 Most Expensive Places to Own a Home all in CA
Recently hsh.com published a really good article about The salary you must earn to buy a home in 27 metros which had some interesting data for sure. Looking at ...
New Course: What’s New in Tableau 10
Tableau’s software for data analytics has completely dominated the market over the past decade and is now helping more companies than ever see and understand th...
How to Embed Tableau Dashboards
Recently Tableau Public switched their embed codes to use JavaScript instead of an iframe. This is arguably a better solution as iframes are old and stinky and ...
U.S. Corporate Tax Havens
This week I decided to help repurpose some data that wasn't seeing as much love as I felt it could. The data comes from a couple CNBC articles [1][2] that chose...
San Diego Fire Department Calls Analysis
The city of San Diego, my home, recently opened up a lot of their data here: SD Open Data Portal Being the data geek and curious citizen I am I was wondering ab...