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03
May 2012
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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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04
Jan 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]
04
Apr 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]
15
Mar 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]
15
Feb 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]
09
Feb 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]
08
Feb 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:
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27
Jan 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]
21
Dec 2009
Do you need to concentrate just on "the writing." Need a text editor that allows you to create blog posts without a connection to the web. Want to keep track of the total words in your...[more]
18
Dec 2009
HouseSpendDataSmallUSCongressExpensesV3As part of our Federal government’s commitment to greater transparency, The US House of Representatives released its Statement of Disbursements (SOD) in...[more]
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