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Tinkering with Johan’s Unified Dates « Tableau Tinkering

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Tinkering with Johan’s Unified Dates. Johan’s Unified Dates. Before the holidays Johan Sivertsen (Kettan) posted an interesting workbook on our Tableau forums as an answer to the often ask year-over-year comparison question. His solution was both elegantly simple, and complex — at the same time! Here’s his original workbook. This is the formula he’s using:. DATE(DATEADD(‘year’, 2000 – YEAR([Order Date]), [Order Date]). Here’s how this function works:. DATEADD(date part,increment,date). The original quest...

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Star Trek: The Tableau Game | VizPainter

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Data Blending and Joining. Level of Detail Calcs. Mapping / Geographic Visualization. Raquo; Star Trek: The Tableau Game. Star Trek: The Tableau Game. June 17, 2015. In the 1980s, my dad brought home a Tandy 1000. I still remember him giving instructions to my mom and me about how to use DOS. I loved playing the games (Digger, Janitor Joe [Jump Joe], Flightmare, Hopper, and more), but the real fun began when my dad showed me I could look at, and even modify, the code for games written in BASIC:. And so, ...

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VizCandy: Playing Nice with Tableau or How to Build a Dashboard That Your Co-Workers Can Maintain If You Get Hit By a Bus

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Playing Nice with Tableau or How to Build a Dashboard That Your Co-Workers Can Maintain If You Get Hit By a Bus. We all like to think we're indispensable at work, but we're not. We're just not. So get over yourself, Simon. Have you ever built the most clever Excel dashboard/database/reporting system that you knew would keep you in the money for years? Here's some tips to consider:. The ability to add aliases for your dimension categories is a great feature. And causes no confusion that I can think of, bu...

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VizCandy: The Nuclear Energy Option

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The Nuclear Energy Option. WE NEED MORE POWER! The energy demand in developing countries like China and India is growing at a phenomenal pace. At the same time most countries are looking to reduce carbon emissions and their dependence on fossil fuels. Unfortunately, there's no magical Scotty in engineering with the ability to bend the laws of physics and deliver that power without consequences. There is no perfect option. I recently saw a documentary on nuclear energy called Pandora's Promise. I hope the...

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VizCandy: Dashboard Kitsch

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ˈkɪtʃ/; loanword from German) is a low-brow style of mass-produced art or design using popular or cultural icons. Generally includes unsubstantial or gaudy works or decoration, or works that are calculated to have popular appeal. A gnome or two in your garden can be cute, even enchanting. But when you have a whole herd of zombie gnomes on your lawn, you have gone to the dark side, my friend. I'm suggesting that you are dangerously close to becoming a 'Collector'. Dashboards do not need bling. They ne...

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VizCandy: The Elusive Executive Dashboard

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The Elusive Executive Dashboard. Some things you should never, ever, EVER google. Is one and the other is Executive Dashboards. Both searches may start out innocent enough, but will make you want to tear your eyes out. An Assless chaps. Search will at least give you a giggle, if not haunt your nightmares for years. But an Executive Dashboard. Search will leave you exhausted and diminish your will to live. If you're analyst anyway. Here's the first 9 dashboards. See any non-crap? Wait Did you see it!

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VizCandy: How to Build a Dashboard

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How to Build a Dashboard. Yup Just like that. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). At play in the world of visual analytics with Tableau. Steal and nod dashboards. Girls education around the world. Some Basic Statistics with Tableau. Where Does Inspiration Come From? In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. 4 Weeks Tableau Training. Wannabe Data Rock Star.

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VizCandy: 10 Freebie Holiday Toys for Tableau Analysts

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10 Freebie Holiday Toys for Tableau Analysts. Here's a few, very simple, free tools that will help make your. Dashboarding work just a little easier. Click on the images to. Go to the respective sites for download. 1 Tableau Data Reshaper Add-In. Reshapes your table data, UnPivots, fills in values and opens your data in Tableau. This is a great little add-in that has data cleansing and cell combining features. 3 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Data (FRED) Add-In. 8 Death to the stock. Some Bas...

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VizCandy: Global Human Development and Debt

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Global Human Development and Debt. April 6, 2015 at 10:48 AM. Love this viz which provides not only detailed data analysis and insights but also aesthetic sense. What a viz! April 6, 2015 at 1:57 PM. Thanks so much Tam! April 7, 2015 at 8:24 AM. Nicely done Kelly. Great look. April 7, 2015 at 9:18 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). At play in the world of visual analytics with Tableau. Steal and nod dashboards. Girls education around the world. Some Basic Statistics with Tableau.