Describing Your Data with Tableau Prep
Being able to take a new dataset and create an actionable visual analytics tool with it can be a challenge.…
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About Ethan
Ethan’s skills include data engineering, statistical analysis, and dashboard development. He holds a Bachelor in Business Analytics from the University of Kansas and a Master in Applied Statistics and Analytics from KU Medical Center. When not creating world-class Tableau dashboards, Ethan can be found fishing, woodworking, or spending time with family.
Tutorials by Ethan
Ethan Lang
Statistical Tableau Ethan will share the strategies and tactics he uses at Playfair Data to make sense of the vast…
Introducing Sankey Bump Charts in Tableau
For a while now, I have been thinking of ways to show how a single dimension member ranks over several…
Ethan Lang
Learn the foundation of logical statements that can be transferred over multiple tools In this tutorial you will learn how…
How to Enable Tableau Pulse and Ensure a Successful Launch
Tableau Pulse has created a lot of buzz within the Tableau community. Tableau developers around the world are celebrating because…
Ethan Lang
Understanding a Key Distribution Visualization and Preparing Data for Modeling In this video, Ethan will show you how to create…
The Beginner’s Guide to Tableau Level of Detail (LOD) Calculations
In the ever-evolving landscape of visual analytics, you can often find yourself working with complex datasets, multiple data sources, and…
Tableau Careers You Didn’t Know About
Many believe that getting a job as a Tableau engineer means you will be using Tableau Desktop to build data…
Ethan Lang
Detecting Outliers in Non-Normalized Data In this tutorial, Ethan will explain how to implement the Median Absolute Deviation equation in…
3 Creative Ways to Add Instructions for Your Users in Tableau
When you publish a Tableau dashboard, you want to ensure that every user, regardless of their data literacy, can easily…
Statistical Tableau: Using MAD to Detect Outliers in Non-Normalized Data
I recently wrote a tutorial on 3 ways to visualize outliers in Tableau. This tutorial assumes a normal distribution of…
Statistical Tableau: How to Analyze Distribution with Histograms
There are many times when performing data analysis when we may want to view the distribution of our data. One…