Category: Opinion/Discussion

  • Tableau’s Custom Views vs. Power BI Bookmarks 

    Tableau’s Custom Views vs. Power BI Bookmarks 

    Discovering Power BI’s Bookmarks: A Journey from Tableau to Power BI Over the past year, I’ve been learning how to use Power BI. After years of working with Tableau as my data visualization tool of choice and using other software only when necessary, I decided to explore another BI platform more thoroughly. Learning another tool…

  • A Review: Tableau’s Table Viz Extension

    A Review: Tableau’s Table Viz Extension

    I use many workarounds to create complex and customized data visualizations in Tableau. One visualization that requires some “Tableau trickery,” as we like to say, is a table-like view where different chart types can be combined into columns. For example, the table may contain a column of text, a column showing shapes (such as up…

  • So, you’ve won the lottery, now what?

    So, you’ve won the lottery, now what?

    At a recent team meeting, a few of us wondered what we would do if we won the $1.25 billion (BILLION with a B) Mega-Millions jackpot. And here’s the funny thing – not even one of us could come up with anything – we couldn’t wrap our heads around the almost limitless possibilities and the…