Who is an Analytics Engineer?

Notes and thoughts from a session on who an analytics engingeer is Read more 13 Feb 2025 - 3 minute read

Learning dbt, pronounced de-beot

I’m taking a dive into the metaphorical pool of de-beot and to distill some longer term retention, I’m here to blog as we go. Who knows what format these will shape up to be, but the plan is to keep blogging as I go through courses on https://learn.getdbt.com/learn/ Read more 12 Feb 2025 - less than 1 minute read

Fix missing field error - Tableau Desktop

When creating a datasource using custom SQL for Tableau Server, Tableau Cloud or Tableau Desktop there is an issue that arises when one of the fields used in the query no longer exists. Here I show a solution Read more 30 May 2024 - 4 minute read

Multiple Parameter Options Technique

Often parameters are used in place of filters in Tableau Desktop, but you can’t have a specific parameter option on a dashboard multiple times in the current build. If you need to add this parameter option to different parts of a dashboard, e.g. a long dashboard, then this blog is for you. Read more 20 Jan 2023 - less than 1 minute read

Jumping Filters

In long form dashboards you may find yourself wanting filters or parameter options to travel with you down the page. Tableau does not support a feature like this but we can use a technique to let the users reposition them at a click of a button. In this blog we will take a look at what I came with and how you can do it too. Read more 20 Jan 2023 - 4 minute read