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Journal Entry
on May 20, 2016
If you have not tried Tableau, I would encourage you to do so. This is all you need to do:
Download and install Tableau Public which is free .
Watch this Overview of Tableau Video .
Here is the data they used in the overview video related to Seattle building permits .
Good stuff!
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Journal Entry
on May 13, 2016
I experimented with Tableau years ago. One of the most interesting things to me was OData . Back then, I thought it would be great to be to get information directly from a financial report into Tableau and present the information. Guess what. 28msec now supports OData .
When I found out that 28 ...
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Journal Entry
on July 9, 2014
So I was wrong about something in my prior post about Tableau.
In that post I said that Tableau reads your information and puts it into their database. What I meant was that they did not support dynamic data feeds, such as a REST URI. Well, I talked to Tableau, they explained how to hook to a dy ...
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on January 3, 2012
Tableau , which considers itself an alternative to traditional business intelligence software, put together a set of 10 business intelligence trends . (Watch the Tableau demo by clicking on the "see it in action" button.)
Here is a summary of Tableau's trends:
Big data gets even bigger
Self- ...
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Journal Entry
on July 10, 2014
Yesterday I prototyped a Tableau visualization which was fed by a prototype dynamic OData web service feed. Last night, one of the developers at 28msec created a prototype OData output format from their SECXBRL.info web service API. They took this query , and converted this XML format of that quer ...
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Journal Entry
on July 7, 2014
This is a test visualization I created using Tableau Public . What I did was create a Tableau visualization, save it to Tableau Public, and then embed the visualization object into my blog entry. This is a direct link to this prototype test visualization : (Shows information about the number of ne ...
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Journal Entry
on July 11, 2014
The SEC is complaining about extensions . Just looking at the total number of extension elements only tells part of the story. For example, the company who created the most extension report elements, Realty Income Corp, had 4,399 extensions, but 4,123 of them where [Member]s. Those [Member]s seem ...
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Journal Entry
on July 6, 2014
This set of short videos shows a tool called Quantrix. Watch the videos. I encourage you to invest in watching the complete set. Trust me, it is worth the time.
After watching the video, ask yourself a question: "Why can't SEC XBRL financial filings work like this."
Here is financial informat ...
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Journal Entry
on July 9, 2014
I stumbled across a new technical syntax which is very, very interesting: OData . This video provides a good explaination of what OData is and why it exists. The synopsis is that OData is a web protocol (i.e. uses HTTP) for querying and updating data. There are two formats: JSON and ATOM. You can ...
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Journal Entry
on July 12, 2014
Many people pushing XBRL as a digital financial reporting format point to transparency as one of the benefits of leveraging that technology. Well, you can get a glimpse of what they are talking about today. Admittedly there is a ways to go, but the path has been set and we are rapidly moving down t ...
