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Blog postNow that I’ve announced the new book, I figured that it was time to update my interactive Tableau dashboard from a while back. To be sure, it’s not the fanciest thing out there. I’m no dataviz deity like Ken Flerage.1 Few are, but I digress…
I find it interesting to view the books from a number of different angles—something that all good dashboards allow users to do. On a different level, Tableau is freaking addictive. With the semeste
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Blog postFor the last two years, I’ve used Slack just about every day. Hands-down the most popular post on my site during that time has been How I Use Slack Inside of the Classroom. Put simply, Slack has become an invaluable tool for me in a number of different capacities. It’s no exaggeration to say that I love using it.
Slack for Dummies Against
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Blog postDashboards really pop when you add an element of interactivity. They allow an obsessed fan to answer questions such as:
Do Breaking Bad fans believe that the show improved over time? What was the highest- and lowest-rated show per season? Which season sported the highest and lowest rating? I was curious about the answers to these questions so I created the following interactive dashboard using IMDB data from from my favorite show.
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Blog postAt the gym yesterday, I did my normal Wednesday workout while catching glimpses of the 46th Annual Cherry Pit Spitting Championship on ESPN The Ocho. (Yeah, that’s a thing.) My eyes were one place but my mind was elsewhere. Specifically, I couldn’t stop thinking about how I could represent in Tableau one of the five most exciting tennis matches I’ve ever seen: the 2019 Men’s Final between Djokovic and Federer.
By way of background, ear
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Blog postFor years I’ve railed against Gantt charts.1 As someone who’s spent more than a decade helping organizations implement massive systems, I can tell you that they don’t remotely represent the timeline of launching a new ERP or CRM application. I can recall meetings during which I laughed at precise estimates a year or more out. Yep, I’ve seen 800-line project plans that made little sense. How do you know that testing the new system is go
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Blog postMany Tableau articles and tips use the Superstore example. To be sure, it’s a robust dataset that allows for all sorts of comparisons, charts, calculations. At least for me, though, using a generic dataset is not nearly as much fun. Looking back over my career, that’s been a constant: I’ve tried to enjoy myself every time that I’ve decided to teach myself a new application or programming language.
Along these lines, I grabbed some NBA
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Blog postIntroduction I’ve been watching professional basketball for more 35 years. Without question, though, the most exciting game that I’ve ever seen live was game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors.
There were so many different subplots. LeBron returned home after a four-year stint with the Heat. He was chasing Michael Jordan for number of titles won. The Cavs were trying to become the fir
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Blog postNote that I originally wrote a version this post for my analytics students on our class WordPress site.
I’ve taught CIS450: Enterprise Analytics Capstone more than a few times. Still, this is most likely the first time that you’re taking it. What’s more, I’d bet that you haven’t undertaken a project akin to the individual research that you’ll do this semester.
This begs the question: What would I do if I were a 21-year-old student?
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Blog postShane Lowry ran away with the British Open today—his first major championship. In a way, a first-timer winning on Sunday is nothing new in the world of golf. For the last ten years, it seems that repeat champions have been the exception and not the rule. We are far from Tiger Woods’ heyday.
Using Tableau, it wasn’t hard to confirm my suspicion.
Yes, 29 different men have won major championships since 2009. It’s an amazing number. (See the entire interactive dataviz yourself he -
Blog postIntroduction Back in the late-1990s through the late-2000s, I spent a great deal of time writing reports for my clients. To be sure, the methods varied. One of my go-to applications was Crystal Reports, now part of SAP. In a way, the specific tool didn’t matter. As long as I knew the structure of the database tables,1 I could find what I wanted and return the results in the desired format.
I am keeping this in mind as I prepare to teach a dataviz course next semester for the first ti -
Blog postI’m putting the final touches on my Fall ’19 syllabi1 and include the following sentences in the communications section:
Are you curious about why a IS professor emphasizes clear communication so much? Check out the first job listing that Jeff Bezos posted for Amazon 25 years ago.
And here’s the screen grab from a man who has made his mark in the universe:
Yeah, some programming languages have gained traction since 1994. You won’t find any mention of Python or JavaScri -
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Blog postI’ve been reading about a book per week this summer and few stand out.
Specialists vs. Generalists Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein looks at the need for generalists in a specialist-driven world. Should someone specialize in one field à la Tiger Woods?
Or is Roger Federer’s approach to sample a bunch of different sports the way to go? Put differently, is
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