Several months (!) after setting myself the challenge of becoming familiar with how to create a Tableau Web Data Connector, the good news is...it's done! Well, done enough that I now understand how to create web data connectors should I ever need one in reality anyway. As planned, its a connection via the BoardGameGeek API to your very … Continue reading Journey complete: a BoardGameGeek collection Tableau web data connector
Author: Adam
Is the EU referendum actually a great conspiracy?
(Sorry to anyone bored by the great/hideous Brexit referendum - this is the last post on the topic, well, at least until the event actually happens 🙂 ) Today is the day! All us UK citizens can cast our direct-democracy vote as to whether the UK should remain in the EU, or say goodbye. It's been a long, torrid, at times revolting, … Continue reading Is the EU referendum actually a great conspiracy?
Brexit: Which newspapers support Leave and which Remain?
Being a glutton for punishment, another Brexit question struck me. Which newspapers are formally standing in the Leave camp, and which in the Remain? This question might strike you as beyond obvious based on the typical political outlook they adhere to and the output of their columnists - but it turns out it's not as straightforward as I … Continue reading Brexit: Which newspapers support Leave and which Remain?
The EU referendum: do voters understand what they’re voting on?
The UK's EU referendum is now less than a week away. We're each going to individually vote on something that could dramatically affect the future of our lives and even the structure of society the UK, so it's a potentially important one. Recent sick tragedies have added to the mess that is the provably wrong claims from the Leave camp, and the responses that seem … Continue reading The EU referendum: do voters understand what they’re voting on?
Future features coming to Alteryx 10.6 and beyond
One of my favourite parts of attending the ever-growing Alteryx Inspire 2016 conference and its like is hearing about the fun new features that tools such as the wonderful Alteryx are going to make available soon. It's always exciting to think about how such developments might improve our job efficiency, satisfaction or enable whole new activities that so far have … Continue reading Future features coming to Alteryx 10.6 and beyond
The EU referendum: voting intention vs voting turnout
Next month, the UK is having a referendum on the question of whether it should remain in the European Union, or leave it. All us citizens are having the opportunity to pop down to the ballot box to register our views. And in the mean time we're subjected to a fairly horrendous mishmash of "facts" and arguments as … Continue reading The EU referendum: voting intention vs voting turnout
Accessing Adobe Analytics data with Alteryx
Adobe Analytics (also known as Site Catalyst, Omniture, and various other names both past and present) is a service that tracks and reports on how people use websites and apps. It's one of the leading solutions for organisations who are interested in studying how people are actually using their digital offerings. Studying real-world usage is often far more insightful, … Continue reading Accessing Adobe Analytics data with Alteryx
Free interactive data and analysis tools from Public Health England
Public Health England is an agency sponsored by the UK Department of Health whose aim is to "protect and improve the nation's health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities". They use, generate or distribute a bunch of interesting health-related data. They've a collection of many, many "data and analysis tools", linked to from this page. There's something for everyone … Continue reading Free interactive data and analysis tools from Public Health England
Unsafe abortions: visualising the “preventable pandemic”
In the past few weeks, I was appalled to read that an UK resident was given a prison sentence for the supposed "crime" of having an abortion. This happened because she lives in Northern Ireland, a country where having an abortion is in theory punishable by a life sentence in jail - unless the person in need happens … Continue reading Unsafe abortions: visualising the “preventable pandemic”
Showing continents on a Tableau map
Tableau maps can understand many geographic features, but, somewhat surprisingly, whole continents is not one of them. It's a requested feature but hasn't yet made the grade to be included. However, it was pretty easy to find several shapefiles of continents freely available online. Here's one. Tableau can't read shapefiles (yet). But, inspired by tableaumapping.bi, I then used this … Continue reading Showing continents on a Tableau map
Dabbling with Data 