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Jul 09
2012
In my last post (Part 1) I showed you how to create a combination area fill & symbol map. Last week a client in Washington, DC asked me if it was possible to create these types of maps and...[more]
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1 comments | Jul 02
2012
Last week, a client in Washington D.C. (and several clients before) have asked me about building combination maps that combine the new filled map style with the symbol map.
This is not a Show Me...[more]
May 03
2012
Building time series charts is easy in Tableau. But what if you want to display a month-year time series? There are a few ways to do this, but this video shows you the fastest way.
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Jan 04
2012
1. Avoid the use of quick filters on dashboards to improve load times. Use cross tabs, heat maps and highlight table filters....sometimes pie charts work for this purpose as well.
2. Keep dashboards...[more]
Apr 04
2011
The azaleas are blooming in Georgia and that means golf’s finest will be trekking to Augusta for the first major of the year. You probably know Jack Nicklaus has won more here than anyone – 6 times...[more]
Mar 15
2011
The earthquake and tsunami near Sendai, Japan have resulted in 3,370 confirmed deaths and over 6,700 missing. No doubt more bad news will be coming over the next few days as Japan completes search...[more]
Feb 15
2011
Nathan Yau at Flowing Data posted some interesting data from TV Guide. TV’s Top Earners includes compensation data for some of of the highest paid actors and personalities on television. Pay for...[more]
Feb 09
2011
I enjoy reading many different blogs that include data visualizations, particularly those that include Tableau Public posts. A couple of weeks ago I ran across an interesting visualization at...[more]
Feb 08
2011
A new startup called Topicmarks has created some very interesting technology for summarizing long documents. Give it a try.
You can send in texts in many ways:
Upload a file from...[more]
Jan 27
2010
Do you long for Excel 2003's simple toolbar? While I like the Excel 2007 version, it does take up a lot of screen real estate. How can you minimize the toolbar but still have...[more]
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