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Twice as many Americans as Germans want self-driving cars. That’s one of the first things I learned from asking the next set of questions. About 400,000 people have put down $1000 each to reserve Tesla’s upcoming Model 3 – the all-electric, potentially…
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One thing that works very well for me is reading, especially lessons learned and case studies from practitioners. A book I frequently turn back to is Making Things Happen by Scott Berkun (he was a Microsoft program manager who shipped things like Visual…
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Of course, you can SEE the version and build number of Tableau Desktop from the Help menu, with Help > About. But usually you want to give this information to someone else – for example, pasting it into an email or support…
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Tableau releases maintenance updates on a regular basis – about monthly. Since Tableau connects to dozens of kinds of datasources, which are themselves constantly updated, it’s always a good idea to stay on the latest maintenance release for your Tableau…
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Color is tremendously powerful in creating data visualizations. Tableau allows you to create custom color palettes. And usually people do this by: Find an image with the colors you want to use Use an eyedropper color picker tool; select each…
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I like to listen to music while I’m working. In fact, I like to listen to music all the time. Especially good music. Here’s some: For anyone interested, I put together a 6+ hours Spotify (yeah yeah) playlist of my…
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Do you have multiple versions of Tableau Desktop installed on your Mac? You might be beta testing the new version, but still need to work with a current version for production work. Wish you could just right-click on a .twbx and choose on the fly which…
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Tableau Desktop’s .twbx packaged workbook files are archives which contain both a .twb workbook file and the data. On Windows, Tableau Desktop installs an “Unpackage Workbook” command which is available by right-clicking any .twbx file. And Tableau Desktop is coming to the…
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Back in the early days of PC’s, comparing performance was relatively easy: just look at the processor and the clock speed. A 486/33 (with an Intel 80486 CPU running at 33mHz) will perform calculations about twice as fast as a…
