• July 7, 2020

    Helping Tableau recognize UK postcodes

    Tableau Tim from The Information Lab has some wonderfully informative and easy-to-follow YouTube videos about new features in Tableau 2020.2. But I hit one little snag while trying to follow along with his video on Tableau 2020.2 Set Controls. The Information Lab is based in the UK, so naturally their...
  • March 1, 2020

    From Wordpress To Jekyll

    If you’ve visited my blog before, this post probably doesn’t look very different, but there are big changes under the hood! It’s now hosted using Jekyll on GitHub Pages. Here’s a write-up of how I converted it from WordPress.
  • February 18, 2019

    Creating a personal connection between data and user with conditional narrative in Tableau

    Last month’s Seattle Tableau User Group meeting featured a hands-on redesign session based on Makeover Monday. (Special thanks to Gina Bremer for organizing this and pushing a number of us to try it for the first time.) Below is my entry and some notes about my approach. For those who...
  • January 28, 2019

    Deploying to all the clouds with Serverless Framework

    In my last post, I described how my colleague Ian Cole and I implemented some web scraping code to wrangle aircraft photos into Tableau. One possible approach was a serverless function (i.e. a snippet of cloud-hosted code that executes on-demand) to retrieve a photo of a particular aircraft in response...
  • January 14, 2019

    Wrangling photos into Tableau (with a stopover in serverless functions)

    In my last post, I walked through how I built a Tableau Public viz about the amazing number of aircraft built in 1946 that are still flying. This post digs into how I incorporated some nifty aircraft photos into the viz. First the underlying question: Why? I mean, of course...