topic: Analytics

  • 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…

  • A Lesson from My Dog: Correlation vs. Causation

    A Lesson from My Dog: Correlation vs. Causation

    In 2022, my husband and I said goodbye to our beloved pup, Juno, and it was HARD. She was a great companion and inspired many past newsletters. Here is a perennial favorite tale. Was My Dog Stoned? I think my dog Juno got stoned at the park — again. On at least two previous occasions and…