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Pie charts...

tyler garrett — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 20:43:38 +0000

Pie charts is always an interesting conversation (find poll here) and I believe a lot of people start off in a space where they hate it or love it.

https://Tableau.com makes it easy to build/rebuilding visualizations and make subtle changes without breaking anything. Meaning it won't require any major support.

You can right click and copy/paste your dashboard back into your workbook or in a net new workbook. This operation automatically re-generates each visualization, allowing for re-engineering, re-design, and removes a need to rebuild it back into the dashboard.

This allows you to show someone a "bar chart" or a pie chart, or a donut chart. [Plus, given the latest updates offering the ability to collapse or hide a container allows you to offer this within a button. I enjoy using circles as buttons to open new charts for some strange reason. Then I re-use that circle style everywhere as to subtly teach people this is the sign for interacting and getting more charts. This allows for an entirely different usage of tableau, this kicks butt because you can add a feature without sweating about breaking anything stylistically speaking]

FYI: Right click duplicate on a dashboard... offers a different variation that is more focused on supporting your dashboard level formatting... Dashboard level formatting may not require a need for many visualizations to be re-built. Rebuilt viz's allow you to repurpose the chart without having to change the design formatting on the dashboard, which can be a large amount of work as you dig further into dashboard level "inner and outer" padding settings.

In most cases people ask for the donut chart when generating #visualizations in #tableau, however recently I built a pie chart for dimension with 5 values that tracked product feedback for a new product being released by a large CPG business.

After doing this I started realize how clean this pie chart is compared to the donut, the donut didn't look good when someone selected a slice which then filtered the entire dashboard by this slice.

Thanks for voting and explaining why you like or dislike a pie chart. I've always been a fan and believe it's more about what the end user needs to drive faster decisions. The entire reason people use the dashboard is to solve a problem, if the pie chart solves the problem, I don't feel obliged to give people a reasoning why a bar chart might work better. From my perspective no one cares about my granular opinion about pie charts and I'm sure they have heard it hundreds of times, this subtle observation allows me to re-focus on the client requirements and not my opinions on the chart. Tableau is too easy to get bent out of shape about which chart, rather find a workflow that allows you to demo your concept in the same meeting when you deliver your finalized pie chart. I explained how you can do this above in tableau.

Are there any interesting talks about pie charts in other circles like Qlik #qlik , #powerbi, #googledatastudio?

tableautip #data

I built a tableau consultancy 6 years ago.

Readership.

tyler garrett — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 05:05:50 +0000

Readership is important.

Yes, readership is very important.

Even if I try to purposefully make life difficult and you start skipping around...

The first few words are 100% readership, everything below those words have really low chance of being read compared to the top two words. Because I'm calling people out, they are prone to sticking around for a little bit... but eventually a lot of your readers will start to bounce around.

Everything beyond readership is important may not become as important to the eyes of the brilliant 'dev.to' authors or casual readers, and sure it's not easy to read large paragraphs, why is this paragraph have zero periods, and it's longer than other things or sentences you could be reading.

What's the use, what's the point, time to scroll down....

Often I think people are very bored of everything and always expecting the blogger to write some perfect puzzle piece that fits their story like glue.

They always expect things to be more to the point, or more of something that isn't there. We are all lacking inner peace in these moments and that's fair.

It's okay to have bad days, and write shit emails.

I've misread a few emails in my days and said some stupid things. I regret those emails, and at the same time it felt great to hit send.

In those moments, I felt right. I don't regret hitting send, I do regret the aftermath of hitting send.

Readership is an important aspect to evaluation of your beautiful work.

Imagine how many people actually read the above bit, before jumping down to this bold text to get a clue. The word beautiful is click bait.

Sometimes people jump around when they get on a blog, expecting to find the ANSWER below, then read more from top then down to bottom again.

You; But how do you know if you're not tracking the data?
me; Oh relax.

If you start to lose people in your writing, like I'm trying to do above, you can start to lower your readership. Like this You; me; bit that isn't really setup at all.

*Sometimes bold text can bring them back to your point.... and sometimes it can be really annoying.
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The goal of this blog is to explain that readership is a puzzle you can solve by being short, and if you need to be verbose, ensure it's the right audience. (paste that jibberish spagatti sauce it in a document, and push for a meeting to review the document)

IF you're ever upset before hitting a button, don't hit that button, wait for tomorrow and grab someone you love to review. If you dont want to send them, dont hit send.

Readership of your content, you desire it to be 100%, if you want it to be 100%, try to keep it really short, and don't get derailed.

Try to organize your ideas with bullets, bold text, and visual explanations is 10X better than text. https://Figma.com is free, get after it.

If you found this blog beneficial or enjoy my writing style, give me a shout on whatever social platform you dig the most.

Consistent blogging.

tyler garrett — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:42:48 +0000

Consistent blogging is important because it will help you surface your content ahead of other people's content. Once you've established your content online, you're going to want organic traffic. Hey, I am Tyler Garrett, my business LLC dev3lop is in austin texas. By adding austin, texas, I'm localizing my backlinks to my website dev3lop and telling you about how easy it is to beat people in local searches in the past 2-5 years.

If other competitors in Austin, Texas don't consider the same then I'll always rank a little higher, robots classify things, and rank you against your peers.

Blogging is easy, watch.

A lot of people ask me what I do for a living, what's your career? That's not what this story is about, however i use it as a story to explain how to blog to people who live around the entire world.

Consistent blogging gives me a chance to explain my technical depth in various articles. If I have a name badge, I can point at it and say "add .com"...

Tyler Garrett dot com, no spaces :)... This is a backlink, if you click that link, I will get data about it and I'll be able to publish the amount of people who click that link right below in a bar chart. It's pretty simple, you click that gosh darn link...

I love blogging because a lot of people follow me and read my content, maybe I'll share something that helps them gain freedom faster.

I really don't know why people are following me, maybe it's because I often say refreshing bs...

My content is about breaking free from FTE or building a side hustle.

Who follows my blogging?

People figuring out tech or eager to be an engineer.

Also, often software engineers who are massive geeks and may not speak english as first language,... I do my best to keep it really casual, light vocabulary and I hope that fits your reading pleasure today.

Often I write about random topics like how to quickly recover on a freelance call but lately I've been trying to be very casual about discussing digital marketing. Like on my person domain I discuss "blogging on dev.to" and here I am on dev.to talking about blogging.

Blogging about buzz words you good at is good!

Blogging about your favorite buzzwords is a good idea. I Worked at tablea.com, it's a good idea to rank on tableau key terms so that I can appear in a ranking with others. Keywords or buzzwords or phrases are good to learn.

My backlinks in blogging are rad

Being rad is important yo. SO collect the coolest links online. Like NFT's or coins or whatever. You collect them and maybe in the future you sell them!

My LLC Service page BITLY address - https://bit.ly/Tableau_Consulting
My LLC Service page Actual Address - https://dev3lop.com/austin-tableau-consulting/
My LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tableau-consulting/

Owning the links is important for linkedin and Bitly because now i will always have that much more power on these two objects, more than anyone in the world. I do all of my own SEO and Bitly is first come first serve. I'm lucky bitly offers this ability. They call it a custom shortlink. They help track that data for you, have an api, advanced features, and free plans. Same as linknedin! I'm lucky i'm able to do this on linkedin, it's a great accomplishment and a lot of people notice it more than anything. Also, think about a robot ranking me, it's merely a "good play"...

https://data.world/tableau same here... Good plays all day. That's SEO. A little digital game anyone can play, master, automate. Just have fun!

Check out these silly links above. Well hot dang they are a a bunch of beauties are they not?

I own those links, me, and I'm also ranking on the keywords "tableau consulting"...

That's how I present my resume to people above UPWORK's option that has thousands of people. A billion dollar valuation company, upwork is.... yoda talk sorry

It was INDEED and UPWORK owning this search phrase, and now it's me and a few other companies. Both billion dollar valuation once you do the research. So it's pretty dang cool how I can "acquire some beautiful hyper links" online and use that to generate money because I'm ... presenting my resume against anyone else who wants to play this game with me...

Because I'm in tech, I'm a lot like you, I deflect and aggregate experiences with a hefty title, or portfolio that people don't wanna consume unless you pay them. (even then I find people don't read resumes, even when it's their job to read a resume)

Titles are questioned, easy to question, like a hipster questions their organic meals. "Right, but how organic is this milk? Do you know the cows name?" Waiter be like, "ah f**k this dude."

Learning to blog about you, and your thoughts, is the first step to blogging.

It's not because I can't explain what I do for a living. It's more about me not wanting to explain what I do beyond what I say in the beginning. (Notice how I'm creating a story, and also I take a really suboptimal way of explaining everything, if you think you can write better stories then you're going to be much better at blogging than me, i always tend to write a little contrarian "a person who opposes or rejects popular opinion, especially in stock exchange dealing" OR opposing or rejecting popular opinion; going against current practice. i find this creates content that's easier to read than normal bs. you be you is what im getting at here, and this is merely a picture of how you could write)

This is a pet peeve, repeating myself, and blogging is a solution to repeating myself in most cases.

There's this strange urge that I have, an urgency not to repeat myself, and you have to realize everyone has questions. My career is a rabbit hole of information. My resume is even worse. No one wants to read my resume, unless they want to hire me for a lot of cash. Even then, most people will not read my resume.

Buzzwords rule tech, and blogging.

IT people have a way of throwing buzzwords around and that is often due to their vocabulary being vastly different. We all have a great ideas of what we do, however how often are you explaining yourself to an audience?

If you've never blogged before, I recommend you give it a shot today, and try out dev.to, medium.com, blogger.com, and weebly.com to get access to a free subdomain OR blogging product, which allows blogging. And in most cases it's unlimited.

Similar to this domain, which allows blogging, within the domain name itself.

Blogging gives me a chance to be able to stop deflecting and start trying to explain what I'm thinking. Notice I try, that's the difficult part, trying...

It also forces me to write less advanced because I have a custom algorithm that looks at my content and tells me whether it's complicated or easy to read.

The easier my content is to read, the longer people stay and read the content, and if it's complicated like this sentence is starting to become, well then people start bouncing and if I just add a few sentences here, I would have done better, however complex sentences happen and because of my algorithms - i'm learning to write better.

More than anything, I'm learning that consistency pays off in the eyes of robots. Robots don't know if you're writing good content or bad content, but they do know if it's unique and they can classify it with algorithms!

As you continue to write, ranking (organic traffic) robots will start to bump all of your content up in ranking, you're generating interlinks, you're talking about the other blogs in each blog, and as you continue to grow the blog - all blogs will get more traffic.

If you want to see the data, or understand the method to this madness, feel free to follow along or dm me on twitter!

If you don't read it, that's okay, here's the high level. Robots see you're writing. They know this will engage people more than websites who don't generate new content. The link on 'method to this madness' has data screenshots and literal research/docs that may be a better read for those needing 'trust' auth.

If you found this blog beneficial or enjoy my writing style, give me a shout on whatever social platform you dig the most.

PS Did anyone check how many times I said the word blogging. I know it's far out, but this is a way of adding keywords to my content. In the headers it says Blogging, I'm saying blogging now. This is how you rank things on search engines yo. SO get started. The more things you rank on, the more traffic you get, and maybe you're not always hitting kick ass blogs out of the park, however in time you'll learn what works.. Like writing a blog on medium to talk about your blog on dev.to? Yes that, and the anchor text might say blogging? Yes....

Lastly, Have fun. Hit edit, and edit it... And remember if you blog with people, you'll get two times more links won't you? Backlinks... Little hyper link juice points. That's right, just backlink to your stuff in your articles about your stuff and yourself and then SHARE THAT STUFF with your mom, dad, okay maybe not them hehehe great... Uh maybe share that with some friend who thinks you're smart.

hello world, where did it all come from and why are we here meow.

tyler garrett — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:25:45 +0000

Hello world... Hello world? Hello WORLD it's my first post on Dev.To and I'm proud to say it has very little to do with code, however due to the fact that I will be sharing code that you will likely skip over because you're extremely skilled.. but for those who don't skip over it, this is an iconic, if not classic moment in tech.

Due to the fact that I felt a lot of humans will likely google "why do we say hello world" or some catch phrase that their professor throws at them, followed by hello world. If not that, then consider the amount of people who will make an app that types "hello world" into a search bar or into a parameter in a URL similar to request for HTML in the browser bar above. I wonder how many people will https://www.google.com/search?q=google+hello+world&oq=google+hello+world... look at that link and think, let me auto populate that with hello world from a testing perspective. Then this person who's thinking, "i need to automate that, in this way" will see my blog, see me, add me on twitter, we become forever friends, and play video games on twitch like we are old mates from high school.

Should I call this hello world blog a blog, or should i call it manipulation of algorithms and robots to network and drive traffic to inevitably expand my digital footprint... lets get started world.

Hello world, let me tell you the truth, after trying to come up with a better way of saying hello to potentially anyone in the world, I can't find a better fit.

Furthermore "hello world" will be what I say when generating any new content that doesn't have an immediate listener.

I imagine sitting alone, trying to write this stuff 40 years ago, trying to get people excited about it, likely always being the only person who's understanding the importance and drinking the koolaid.

This description, roughly feels like a strange version of myself, dealing with the personal demons & mental struggles I face on a daily basis.

Then we think "ah yes... hello world, brilliant."

However this story, this make believe nonsense I just rambled out of my finger tips, was this the real story, or just a good thought in a slap of the keyboard...

Continues slapping keyboard

Likely, there's more. That's why you're here right meow.

You're here meow to do what I'm doing, maximize our understanding of "hello world." And offer my insights as well as verbatim of what I've researched.

Have you ever asked yourself, "yeah but why are we saying hello world?"

It always starts in the dark room... moist from humidity & we all know that's sweat...

Yes, it's some nerdy persons room, and they giggle.

"Hello world." Then they submitted it and here we go.

If you haven't done the google search and landed on the wiki or cared enough to dig deeper, you may not be entirely sure on what's happening in this hello world, world. However why go anywhere...

Or maybe you have been down this adventure rabbit hole.

Maybe this is round 3,...

....and then you thought, yeah but I think I could also click on this dudes "hello world blog," what could go wrong.

Hello world! The chant of the typical first blog post, or at least for me that's how it's going to go down. Why would I not do what I've seen across most of the remedial learning processes in tech. I, mr t dog, also loves to use that HELLO WORLD judo when I design highly enriching and finger licking good analytics training.

So hello world, from wiki's perspective, has a lot of start dates and a little bit of debate. However, if you're learning from me, I have a good idea that maybe. Just maybe... Hello world has been around longer than you have lived. If I'm wrong, and you're learning about it today, you better leave a comment below...

Really, lets do the real talks... because deep deep down...

You know how wiki be (yes ill copy paste from wiki), they will first start with something that is likely and arguably accurate, then other people will add more content because wiki is publicly editable, unlike my blog post... IM IN CONTROLLLLLSSSS

Where were we? Wiki, you have the floors.

While small test programs have existed since the development of programmable computers, the tradition of using the phrase "Hello, World!" as a test message was influenced by an example program in the seminal 1978 book The C Programming Language. The example program in that book prints "hello, world", and was inherited from a 1974 Bell Laboratories internal memorandum by Brian Kernighan, Programming in C: A Tutorial:

main( ) {
printf("hello, world\n");
}

In the above example, which is also in this picture above, the main( ) function defines where the program should start executing. The function body consists of a single statement, a call to the printf function, which stands for "print formatted". This function will cause the program to output whatever is passed to it as the parameter, in this case the string hello, world, followed by a newline character.

The C language version was preceded by Kernighan's own 1972 A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B, where the first known version of the program is found in an example used to illustrate external variables:

main( ) {
extern a, b, c;
putchar(a); putchar(b); putchar(c); putchar('!*n');
}

a 'hell';
b 'o, w';
c 'orld';

The program also prints hello, world! on the terminal, including a newline character. The phrase is divided into multiple variables because in B, a character constant is limited to four ASCII characters.

The previous example in the tutorial printed hi! on the terminal, and the phrase hello, world! was introduced as a slightly longer greeting that required several character constants for its expression.

The Jargon File claims that "Hello, World!" originated instead with BCPL (1967). This claim is supposedly supported by the archived notes of the inventors of BCPL, Brian Kernighan at Princeton and Martin Richards at Cambridge. The phrase predated by over a decade its usage in computing; as early as the 1950s, it was the catchphrase of radio disc jockey William B. Williams.

IKR, radio? WHAAAAT... Ah yes, people are inspired by others, think of why you're into tech, for me it's video games... What exactly got you into tech, why are you even on dev.to looking at this content, what got you interested in research hello world? Consider the heritage of these things, similar the the literal heritage of the words "hello world."

Which before today, would have never looked it up, but as I gain new grays and learn of no elixir to growing younger, I decided I need to understand the true depth of said "hello world" rabbit hole...

In 1954, the originator of the Make Believe Ballroom program in New York, Martin Block, left WNEW for a new job at ABC Radio. Jerry Marshall took over the show for three years, after which Williams was tapped to host the program. He marked the broadcast as his own, using the distinctive sign-on, "Hello, world", and occasionally identifying himself as "Guilliermo B. Guilliermos" or "Wolfgang B. Wolfgang," although to listeners and friends he was known simply as "Willie B." He combined intimate knowledge of music with his personal anecdotes to create a smooth style that captivated listeners. By 1965 Billboard reported Williams was earning $105,000 a year, tops for the station at that time but slightly less than the other famous Williams, Ted, earned at his baseball peak ($125,000).

Now, we finally understand where this all came from.

I can finally rest easy because now I know a great deal about hello world and the potential origins of said world.

If you found this blog beneficial or enjoy my writing style, give me a shout on whatever social platform you dig the most.

BELOW, please comment & tell me about why you decided this path of computers. Why are you looking up "hello world?" I'm genuinely interested & would enjoy networking w/ you. I will be sure to respond asap.

Best,
Tyler Garrett
A Tableau Consulting Nerd

(this blog goes to my wife & son, who rock, and completely supports me while i do strange things such as blog about hello world on dev.to)

Good bye world.