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Is data-driven decision-making a dumb term?
This post will explore fixed decisions vs event-driven decisions
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Mike Morrow
Python and Tableau
There are many areas where people use Python in their analytics workflow.
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Mike Morrow
Analyzing calendar data
Calendars store events in an .ics file.
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Mike Morrow

August 2024

The need for regulation in the location data industry
The cat's out of the bag so how do we reign in this loosely regulated industry to protect consumers without stifling innovation
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Mike Morrow
The origin of Tableau and an exploration of open source implementations of The Grammar of Graphics
Inspired by the late Leland Wilkinson’s book, The Grammar of Graphics (1999), researchers at Stanford wrote a software prototype called Polaris.
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Mike Morrow
The SQL that Tableau writes for LOD's
Tableau writes sql to self join a table with an aggregated version of itself
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Mike Morrow
Table Calculations in Tableau are like SQL Window Functions
Table calculations are functions that are applied on top of aggregations in the result set. For example, if we have sum of Sales by Sub-Category and we…
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Mike Morrow
Should you study systems engineering?
Systems engineering is the most useful and most worthless college major.
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Mike Morrow
Sets in Tableau
Set Operations
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Mike Morrow
Calculated fields in Tableau
Calculations in Tableau are useful for summarizing your data, creating new fields (either measures or dimensions), cleaning your data, and applying…
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Mike Morrow

July 2024

Explainer series: Tableau
An attempt to break down the mechanics of how Tableau works
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Mike Morrow
Explainer series: Spatial Reference Systems
Buckle in for lots of cryptic-sounding terms.
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Mike Morrow
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