Get “Prepped” for International Beer Day

In honor of #internationalbeerday, I was perusing Beer Advocate Top 250 for ideas on how to celebrate.   Woo hoo — I have #13 “in stock” (and a few others on the list).  To get a sense of other candidates to seek out for the day, I wanted to analyze my options.  As a start, I […]

How Amazon Transforms Your Data Into Dominance

Tired of reading about AI, ML, NLP,  and all the other acronyms of how companies are leveraging data?  Amazon is putting our shopping data into action well beyond recommending more products we might like.  They are creating new products!  I read this article recently and was blown away.  I remember not long ago companies were deciding […]

People won’t use Tableau Prep to prep their data. My crazy idea of what they will do!

It was an exciting day. Tableau launched their first completely new product in years. If that wasn’t enough, the opening volley included new bundling models and pricing plans. I’m not going to get into what I think this all means for Tableau, there are way too many others jumping all over that. If you’ve been […]

Join the movement! Open Data should include Hyper format.

As I was downloading data sets from the NYC portal (www.nyc.gov/opendata), time was ticking waiting for one 22GB CSV.As a Hyper file, it was under 2GB — and that got me thinking!! Open Data portals need to include Hyper as an option.If you agree, please give this a thumbs up on the Tableau Ideas Forum. […]

Time to BUTTON UP! It’s cold outside.

I was doing some ‘spring cleaning’ (yes, optimistic this time of year in the Northeast) and came across my collection of Tableau buttons, of which I am very fond .  I spread them out on my desk and started playing around with different layouts.  Since it’s pretty gloomy, I thought rays of sunshine were fun.Those […]

How the Olympics is Confusing Millions of Viewers

I was watching the replay of Adam Rippon’s great performance and something kept distracting me.  Can you see it?! Congratulations to all Olympians across the globe.   Your singular focus and determination are inspiring beyond words. Well, many of you cannot see it — meaning the red and green score in the upper left corner.  I’m exaggerating […]