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The Future of Tableau!?
Disclaimer: What follows is my personal take on these announcements, all of these assumptions and predictions were made based on the webinar itself and my experience with the platform. We will see how accurate those are in a few months I guess. Unless you spent the last few weeks under a rock, you will have… Read more
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The Self-Funding Guide to Tableau Conference – 2024
This is an update of last years post about funding your trip to Tableau Conference. If you consider self-funding or even want to bring the cost down for your company so they are more likely to fund your trip, you might find some valuable tips in here. Read more
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Where does Tableau’s 4th wave take us?
Tableau presented their vision for the 4th wave of analytics at this year’s Tableau Conference. Does that mean a redevelopment of the platform? How does it fit in with Salesforce? And will we all be replaced by AI? Read more
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Think like a hacker pt. 3 – Break things!
Do you have a little destructive voice in your head? Put it to something constructive and try to break your dashboards and workflows to make sure they are robust. I show you how . Read more
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Think like a hacker pt. 2 – Anticipate the future!
You probably don’t have a (working) crystal ball; however you should still anticipate what might be happening in the future when developing data assets. Read more
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Think like a hacker pt. 1 – Never do it more than twice!
Keen to improve your data development skills? Start with this fundamental concept to not do things more than twice but rather refactor to make maintenance and further development easier. Read more
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The Self-Funding Guide to Tableau Conference
This year’s Tableau Conference is over; 8,000 people are back home and most of them are hopefully inspired and energised or have at least learned some valuable new thing about Tableau and data. For me it was the 3rd Tableau Conference I attended and the 3rd time I fully self-funded my trip. If you had… Read more
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Becoming Data-Driven through UX – The Power of Empathy
This is a summary of my presentation at TC23 of the same title, while it was prepared for a Tableau event, it is entirely tool independent; in fact all aspects of it apply similarly to any other solutions you would want to design, websites, apps, products, etc. Below you’ll find a written summary of the… Read more
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Building Physical Maps…with LEGO
This post first appeared in the Data Visualization Society’s Medium publication “Nightingale” as part of their “Data Sensification” series. The content is the same with the exception of a little update at the end. In the beginning of 2020 I decided to attempt using LEGO bricks as a map-building material for a map of Aotearoa… Read more