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...
Finding your Tableau Server PostgreSQL database port
Ever have issues connecting to your Tableau Server PostgreSQL database due to a port issue? If so, you're not alone! I too have struggled with this before and a...
How to add an ‘All’ parameter option in Tableau
Ever wanted to include an ‘All' option in your Tableau parameters? Simple! Here's how: Create your parameter with the options available. In this example I...
Customizing Tableau Server Logos and Icons
When deploying Tableau Server for a client, I often find that clients wish to customize their Tableau Server environment with their own branding. The Tableau Se...