History & timeline of data viz innovations
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Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle
Fantastic presentation on thinking about design and usability:
Getting Good at Tableau – the Screencast
A recurring question in the Tableau community is “How do I learn Tableau?” I’ve tried to answer that question a couple of times now in a presentation that I gave in-person in July 2014 at the Maine Tableau User Group and then a revised audio-only version earlier in November when I was a guest on the Tableau Wannabe Podcast with Matt Francis and Emily Kund: https://soundcloud.com/tableau-wannabe-podcast/episode-12-the-one-with-jonathan-drummey.
Here’s the full presentation as a screencast:
And the Getting Good at Tableau pdf (45MB).
This is my first screencast, any feedback is much appreciated!
O Extract, Where Art Thou?
This was yesterday’s contribution to a Tableau forums discussion on data extracts, I thought it deserved a separate post that I could keep updated. There are some subtle behaviors and idiosyncracies in working with data connections, Tableau data extracts, and Tableau Server that aren’t fully fleshed out in the documentation, here’s my attempt! I start out with a review of the common file types and .twb vs. .twbx, and then get into some details on different types of connections and what happens based on different orders of operations, and toss in a gratuitous Buffy reference.