Adding Google Analytics to your Tableau Server
If you're a Tableau Server administrator or Publisher of content to Tableau Server then you probably at some point wondered how popular your dashboards and view...
Migrating Tableau Server to a New Domain
Tableau Server is generally really easy to administer. This is in large part due to having very few configuration items you can adjust. The fewer things you can...
Your 2013 Big Business Intelligence Strategy
With 2012 behind us, we charge full-speed ahead into the new era of Visual Analytics and Big Data. First, let me define these terms and discuss them briefly, th...
Consumer Confidence Visualized…correctly
Recently NASDAQ OMX released their NASDAQ Economic Calendar Reports on Facebook. One of these reports attempted to explain that consumer confidence rose 6% mont...
Self-service security in Tableau Server via Outlook Groups
Managing Tableau Server security can be a lot of work, especially when you're dealing with tons of users from all over the enterprise. Fortunately, Tableau has ...
Fletcher or DeMaio, Who’s the next Mayor of San Diego?
The 2012 San Diego Mayoral race is heating up. Most excitedly, Nathan Fletcher, whom I support, has surged into second place behind Carl DeMaio by only 3 points...
2012 Fight For Air Climb
On March 18th, 2012 I had the pleasure of helping to fight lung cancer by racing up 31 flights of stairs as part of the GNU Fitness team at the 2012 Fight For A...
Leveraging your Tableau Server to create large Data Extracts
Recently I've been doing a lot of work leveraging the Tableau Data Server. This is a great new feature of Tableau Server that allows BI groups to publish standa...
Keyboard Settings for Excel via VMFusion
Ever have problems using your standard keyboard shortcuts in Excel when running it on a Mac in VMFusion? Me too… So, after some digging and testing I foun...
Delivering WOW through Data
Tony Hseih, CEO of Zappos.com, wrote in his book Delivering Happiness that their first objective is to Deliver WOW through Service. In the book he described a p...