Ben Sullins

Some stories are better told using motion graphics rather than still. This site is a utility for helping you create animated data visualizations using Tableau Public and telling stories in a unique engaging manner.

In this course, we take a fictitious company who has a new web application in which they would like to build a real-time dashboard showing usage. The web application follows a typical structure storing data in MySQL and running on Node.js. With data flowing into our database in real-time, we use Highcharts.js to visualize this data and give our users a view of the activity in the application. You can use this concept to build your own dashboards in your applications and use data to deliver… Show more

In this course, we take a fictitious company who has a new web application in which they would like to build a real-time dashboard showing usage. The web application follows a typical structure storing data in MySQL and running on Node.js. With data flowing into our database in real-time, we use Highcharts.js to visualize this data and give our users a view of the activity in the application. You can use this concept to build your own dashboards in your applications and use data to deliver insight to your users. Show less

Learn how BI in the cloud has evolved and if it will benefit your business.

Data visualizations are the most powerful way to communicate information. D3.js is an open-source JavaScript framework that is changing just how these Data Visualizations are being deployed across the web. This course will show you everything you need to start building Data Visualizations in D3.js and communicating brilliantly in the world of Data Visualizations.

This course explains conceptually what makes a valuable business dashboard as well as shows concrete examples of how to create them using Microsoft Excel and Tableau Software (public)

This course gives you everything you need to get up and running with Tableau Server in an enterprise environment.

Learn how to truly derive insight from your data using Tableau Software's powerful visual analytics and business intelligence platform.

Pull click counts by country from bitly for a users "popular links" or a specified list of links and store them into a csv file. I then use this as the source for an incrementally updated Tableau extract.

Learn how to quickly and easily develop insights from your Big Data. This course covers all the basics of Big Data systems including functional examples using Tableau Software's powerful analytics platform.

MoPal is a simple PHP app which allows you to execute Elastic Search queries and save the results to comma separate values (.csv) files. I use this at Mozilla to run ad-hoc queries against our Elastic Search cluster an export the results so I may analyze them in Tableau. This ad-hoc analysis is my first step in developing new analysis. It allows me to test if the data I’m asking our engineering team for will in fact be valuable once loaded into our data warehouse (Vertica).

PHP web portal that allows your Tableau Server users to login using their OpenLDAP accounts. This also works to automatically create new users based on their LDAP group membership.

Explorer for Tableau Server provides a fresh face for your Tableau Server environment. In design there is a saying: "Less is more." With that we have found that many of our clients can take advantage of simplifying access to dashboards by removing a lot of the default Tableau Server interface. In it's place, a simple search with a drop down list of your published dashboard is provided. This is done by opening up access to your Tableau Server database and deploying Explorer.