When I was a young kid my uncle had a stroke. A middle aged man with a wife and three daughters, it changed his life completely. Not so long after his stroke my uncle came to live with us, …
Learning new things is hard.
I get it. You already know Excel. Tableau is just plain confusing (and annoying, and expensive). I've been there. But Tableau can do things that Excel cannot. Like directly weave a bunch of …
A dashboard you can’t update.
My preferred way to create a dashboard is to start with something simple, crude even. Then over time, adapt. The faster the dashboard goes live, the better. This is the way most web software is …
Can you influence your dashboard?
A lot of organizations get tied up with the whole "car dashboard look." That's all surface area stuff. Real dashboards give us access to information we can use to make decisions. Our actions …
A Tableau Revisit
Back during my Westat days, I was always a little surprised by how few Tableau licenses found their way into employee's hands. We had a lot a data and the kinds of projects that could clearly afford …