Monday, September 17, 2018

Matlab + Tableau - making math much easier!

A quick note that Tableau can be set to use Matlab as an external server - like R or Python.

There is an article from Mathworks here: https://www.mathworks.com/products/reference-architectures/tableau.html

Since my team also owns this feature I figured I would point it out.  I've always liked Matlab - it is very easy to look at some equations and then "just type them into Matlab."  Thanks for helping us out along the way, Mathworks!

Questions, comments, concerns and criticisms always welcome,
John

TC is getting closer

I mentioned I would be co-hosting a Hands On Training session at Tableau Conference this year.  That has been keeping me very busy this past month. 

The session I am co - presenting is Intermediate Statistics.  It features many of the areas my team here owns.  To that end, I'm gathering data sources to provide some meaningful training on Trend Lines, Forecasting, Clustering and correlation.  <Insert "correlation is not causation" warning here>.

Surprisingly, there are not many ready made data sets that focus on intermediate level analysis.  Most are either introductory and too basic for this type of hands on training, or are very large datasets that can be overwhelming.

I don't want to tip my hand here yet since I am still working on getting a few data sets nailed down, but I think I have the general idea in place.  It's simply a time consuming process to get all the details hammered out in advance.

Then on to practicing my speaking!

Questions, comments, concerns and criticisms always welcome,
John