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Author: Ann Jackson

  • Statistical Process Control Charts

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    I’ve had this idea for a while now – create a blog post and video tutorial discussing what Statistical Process Control is and how to use different Control Chart “tests” in Tableau. I’ve spent a significant portion of my professional career in business process improvement and always like it when I can integrate techniques learned…

  • #MakeoverMonday 11/22/16 – Advanced Logging Edition

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    And it’s time – my first ever Makeover Monday.  I’ll admit, I’ve attempted to catch up in the past, but always lost steam.  I think the first data set might be related to sports and I struggle to focus on making something interesting. Despite my follies, I’m proud to say that I’ve participated in this…

  • #data16 Data Dump

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    Last night was our monthly Phoenix Tableau User Group (PHXTUG) meeting and as part of the post-excitement of Tableau’s 2016 conference we took some time to go through their strategy and some upcoming features. Full video is available here: Interested in reusing the slides? Find the deck here: TC 16 Data Dump from Ann Jackson

  • #data16 Day 3

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    Admittedly I’m jumping from day 1 to day 3.  I hit a micro wall on Tuesday.  But now that I’ve pushed through to Wednesday – it is time to focus on the amazing. First up – paradigm shift.  I had a very novel vision of expectations and how to “get the most” out of the…

  • #data16 Day 1

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    What better way to commemorate my first day at #data16 than sharing the highs, lows – what has met expectations and what I didn’t expect. The community – Probably the one thing I couldn’t anticipate coming into #data16 was how the virtual community (mainly via Twitter) compared to reality.  Like internet dating, you never really…

  • Tableau Conference 2016 – full prep details

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    Earlier in the week I wrote a blog post promising to share with you a slide deck put together that walks through what you should prepare yourself for with regards to the Tableau Conference in Austin, TX. I’m happy to share with you not only the slide deck, but also a video of me presenting this…

  • Prepping for #data16

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    The last 6 months have been a huge whirlwind for me in terms of Tableau and the Tableau community.  I started out the year attending a Saturday workshop on Tableau and am now a Desktop Certified Professional and two month veteran Tableau User Group leader. The whirlwind has been part of my 2016 vision – to…

  • Funnel Plots

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    As I continue to read through Stephen Few’s “Signal: Understanding What Matters in a World of Noise” there have been some new charts or techniques I’ve come across. In an attempt to understand their purpose on a deeper level (and implement them in my professional life), I’m on a mission to recreate them in Tableau.…

  • Thoughts on sorting in Tableau

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    Now with video 🙂 Last week I ran into an interesting situation with Tableau.  I wanted to sort dimensions within larger dimensions by a measure.  After that sort, I wanted to encode an additional dimension on color.  Here’s what that would look like using Superstore: In the view I am looking at sub-categories by each…

  • Me vs. ETL

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    I had a great moment today.  A moment where I felt like I conquered the beast known as “ETL.”  For those of you who don’t know (lucky you!) ETL stands for Extract, Transform, Load.  Like it suggests: it is the term used to move data around and taking elements from “raw” forms and making them usable…