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SXGD Speaker - Marc Epprecht, Wednesday March 12, 2014 12-1pm
Dr. Marc Epprecht, Professor of Global Development Studies, gave the annual SXGD Guest Speaker talk "Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa: Five Reasons for Cautious Optimism" in Room 145 SPS in Robert Sutherland Hall. He spoke about his research, experiences with African activists and his reasons for optimism despite the recent news stories from Africa.Poster here
Considering an MA in Gender Studies at Queen's? . Poster with past and student projects - here.
Gender Studies MA Two students at the Annual Symposium, November 1, 2013. Poster with talk titles- here.
Gender Studies Brown Bag Speaker Series 2013-14
Come hear our invited speakers on Wednesdays from 12-1pm in Mac-Corry D326.
Wednesday October 16th Reena Kukreja, Department of Film and Media - Unpacking the trafficking discourse: The construction of cross-region brides in India as victims needing rescue.
Wednesday November 20th (note time change 12:15-1:15) Sarita Srivastava, Jointly appointed to Gender Studies and Sociology - "You're calling me a racist?".
Wednesday February 12th Maria Rethelyi, School of Religion, Cross Appointed to Gender Studies - Baby bump in the grey zone: The view of pregnant woman in the Jewish sources.
Gender Studies Open House - October 17, 2013
The Department of Gender Studies hosted its annual Open House with over 30 faculty, core, cross appointed and adjunct, staff, DSC representatives and graduate students. Here are some photos including the lovely baking made by Maria-Teresa's mother, specially for the occasion.
Gender Studies Fall 2013 Newsletter - Click here
Lorraine Segato to visit Queen's as the 2013 George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund Visitor
Lorraine Segato, filmmaker, event producer, artistic director, social justice activist (co-founder and lead singer of The Parachute Club) will be at Queen's September 26-27th. 2013. She will present her documentary work, Queen Street West: The Rebel Zone with Q&A to follow (Thursday September 26th, from 6-8pm, Watson Hall 217), visit a Gender Studies class (GNDS 428, Gender Performance) and perform a concert of her show, Get Off My Dress (Friday September 27th, from 7-9pm at The Mansion, 506 Princess Street). Lorraine Segato's visit is sponsored by the Departments of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and Gender Studies.
How to Bake a Pie - Play by GNDS MA Dan Vena, directed by GNDS cross-appointed faculty, Kim Renders.
The Chipped Off Theatre Collective presented their first production, "How to Bake a Pie", June 12-14th in the Gordon Vogt Studio Theatre at Queen's University.
Below are photos by H. Buist of the Cast and Crew (L), Aarzoo Singh as Betty (M) and Jim Puckalo and Olivia Groleau as Boberella and Cindy (R)
Gender Studies Annual Colloquium
Our second annual Colloquium, with keynote speaker Dina Georgis, was held April 26, 2013 at the Donald Gordon Centre. For the poster from the event, click here.
Gender Studies Display Case Mackintosh-Corry
The Gender Studies display case has been dismantled but here are some photos to show you the very popular project that was in Mackintosh-Corry from February 15th to April 5th, 2013.
Dan Vena, Gender Studies MA student, wins 2013 Positive Space Award
Terrie Easter Sheen and Dan Vena at the Positive Space ceremony
The Positive Space Award is presented to a full-time undergraduate or graduate student who has demonstrated leadership in the Queen's and/or Kingston community in promoting the recognition and celebration of sexual and gender diversity. For those of you who know Dan, he meets this criterion (and more) and is so deserving of this special recognition!!!!
Congratulations Dan! You make us proud! Article about Dan on the Queen's New Centre
Fall 2012 Newsletter - link here
Brown Bag Speakers Series
The annual Gender Studies Brown Bag Speakers Series will meet monthly in 2012-13, on Wednesdays, 12:00-1:00, in Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D326.Our fall term events are described below.
Winter Series
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
"Theorizing OxyContin: Women, Painkillers and the Racial State". Dr. Sammi King, Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Cross-appointed Gender Studies. The subject of an intense public panic in Ontario since 2009, the prescription painkiller OxyContin provides a rich site through which to explore connections between pharmaceutical consumption, economic marginalization, state regulationm, and gendered and racial embodiment. Rejecting widely held notions of OxyContin as either panacea or plague, this research is guided by the notion that the reality of painkilling and drug use lies in the cultural contexts that give meaning to the transmutations and pluralities of these practices.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
"Music and the 'Feminized' Peacekeeper at the Canadian War Museum". Dr. Kip Pegley,Associate Professor, School of Music, Cross-appointed to Gender Studies, Researcher, Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research. All museums are designed to shape public opinion and the Canadian War Museum's programme is no exception. Here, music is carefully implemented in seven sites that move chronologically through the exhibits. Kip Pegley explores how sound contributes to a compelling and particular narrative of Canadian history, designed to persuade visitors that we are singular, benevolent, and critically needed on the international scene, thus justifying the government's decisions to send its military into dangerous conflict zones.
Fall Series
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
"Economy and Survival of the Hidjra Community". Dr. Sylvat Aziz, Associate Professor, BFA Program, Cross-appointed Gender Studies. Dr. Aziz' research draws upon Islamic material culture and the visual intersections of art and science.This presentation will address the social, religious and political status of the urban hidjra population in Pakistan.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
"Slavery and Its Afterlife: The Case of Trayvon Martin". Dr. Barrington Walker, Associate Professor, History, Cross-appointed Gender Studies. His most recent publication is a collection of essays titled, The African Canadian Legal Odyssey: Historical Essays (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and University of Toronto Press).Influenced by the ideas of Saidiya Hartman and David Austin, this paper examines the Trayvon Martin shooting as a case study of issues of race, gender, and the rule of law in early twentieth century North America. The paper will take up Trayvon's story in the context of slavery's long afterlife and the many ways in which the history of slavery shapes the present by challenging abstract notions of formal legal equality and framing and delimiting the life chances of the descendants of the enslaved.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
"Women, Law, and Equality in the 21st Century". Dr. Kathleen Lahey, Professor of Law, cross-appointed Gender Studies. This talk outlines the history of women's efforts to eliminate sex discrimination in Canada and elsewhere and identifies the greatest challenges for today. It also discusses potential strategies.
Gender Studies Colloquium a great success.
April 27th, 2012 at the Donald Gordon Centre
Rinaldo Walcott, Terrie Easter Sheen and Abdi Osman
News release of the event
Colloquium Poster
Beckham Ronaghan wins Positive Space Award!
Gender Studies congratulates Beckham Ronaghan, a fourth year Gender Studies
Major in the SXGD Certificate Program, who is the winner of the 2012
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Queen's News Centre article. SXGD Invited Speaker Viviane K
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January 12 | From Compassion to Social Justice? Elaine Power |
February 2 | "Out on the Streets They Call it Murder": Gendered Citizenship and the Right to the City in Jamaica's Garrison Communities Beverley Mullings |
March 8 | Talking the Unspeakable: The Gender-Race Conversation Audrey Kobayashi |
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Deterritorialised Intimacies: Gender , Citizenship and Cinema Maria Caridad Cumana and Susan Lord |
November 8 |
How Babies Rule the World: The Global Iconography of the Poster Child |
November 29 |
"From 'why?' to 'why not?'": re-interpreting the reasons why women read self-help books Patricia Neville, Visiting Scholar in Gender Studies |
2010-2011 Events
Best Before Date - Struggles with Childlessness & Infertility
A film by Reena Kukreja
Public Screening Wed 15 June @ 7 pm Dunning Hall, Rm 14
Gender Studies Brown Bag Series 2010-11
12-1pm in Mackintosh-Corry Hall B204
September 24
"Feminist Solidarity and the Question of Palestine" Dr. Dana Olwan
October 29
"Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick avec Winnicott's Squiggle: Toward a New Queer Ethics of Psychoanalysis" Dr. Michael Snediker
November 26
"The White Trashing of Britney Spears" Dr. Jennifer Musial.
February 18
"Waltz with Bashir: New Masculinity in Israeli Cinema" Dr. Dorit Naaman
March 25
"Mourning Gender, Troubling Identification, Responding to Judith Butler"
Dr. Eleanor MacDonald
Winter Term Events in the Department of Gender Studies:
Anne Kustritz
showing her film of fanvids, an aspect of remix culture, which deals with questions of queerness, gender, sexuality and embodiment
Public Lecture and FanVid Show Tuesday Feb 8th, 6:30-8:30pm Mac-Corry E230
Fandom, Fanvidding: Consumer Participation in Popular Culture
Theresie Tungilik
An Inuit art historian and artist who is a Visiting Scholar co-sponsored by the Departments of Art and Gender Studies
Lecture and Reception Thursday February 10th, 5:30pm Agnes Etherington Art Centre
History of Inuit Art: A Personal Reflection
Daniel Heath Justice
A scholar in the field of Indigenous Studies and a creative writer will present a public lecture and guest lectures on the topics of gender and sexual diversity, focused on perspectives drawn from Indigenous cultures and politics.
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4 PR Tips For Embracing Remote Meetings
I recently read an article in GigaOm, How to Embrace Remote Meetings and it got me thinking about my own experience. Since starting at LP&P almost six years ago, one of the things I've really enjoyed has been learning how to effectively work with team members at our Boston headquarters from my "remote" office in Austin.
Not only do we have clients all over the map - across multiple different time zones, but our internal team structures often require us to work across blended Austin/Boston account mixes, making this skill even more necessary.
Based upon what I've experienced so far, following are my top 4 PR tips for being an efficent remote worker.
Over-Communicate and Speak Up
Over-communicate to the point of feeling like you are that annoying team member with the constant flow of status updates. I learned fairly early on that if you aren't speaking up on a consistant basis with your remote teams then the assuption tends to be that you aren't being producitve.
If your managers and team members don't physically see you, it's difficult for everyone to not let "out of sight, out of mind" creep in. We have an internal IM application that the agency uses, which helps almost elimate this problem, but it is still amazing what a quick three minute phone call can accomplish.
More Meetings Doesn't Equal an Efficent Employee
One of my pet peeves is having meetings to talk about meetings that just results in another meeting. Unfortunately, this tends to be the fall back with most remote teams, especially in PR where activities are evolving at light speed and internal communications is key to client success. Echoing similar points in the GigaOm article, the more preperation and organization that goes into meetings leads to more efficent workers and a key to this is incoporating video conferencing.
Stick to a Schedule
One of the benefits of working remotely is that because of dispersed clients, internal teams and media, most PR folks adopt some sort of flexible schedule. As long as you are keeping consistant hours, which team members are all aware of, this helps to significantly cut down on managers and teams confusing your lack of communication with lack of productivity.
We have an internal employee calendar housed on our intranet, which is not only super easy to edit, but it is also simple to get a quick glance of colleagues' available time. Making sure you are keeping this up-to-date helps elimate any questions.
Embrace New Technologies
I've never been one to be comfortable with change and this rings true even when it comes to the way I embrace new technologies. However, utilizing new technologies has been necessary when it comes to figuring out how I can continually work as effectively as possible.
We use Facebook and Twitter to connect with reporters, so why not use these tools to connect and build stronger team relationships with coworkers? In fact, one of my account teams is currently testing out how to have effective "huddle meetings" using Google+.
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Technology Diffusion, International Competition and Effective Demand
[fre] Ce papier étudie des questions relatives à trois caractéristiques de la croissance économique des années 80 et 90. Le papier développe un modèle d'économies intégrées (par le commerce et l'investissement direct international) qui vise à examiner ces caractéristiques précédemment notées. Il possède des traits schumpétériens et keynésiens en ce qu'il décrit les modifications de la répartition du produit qui accompagne les processus de diffusion des nouvelles technologies (l'émergence des rentes schumpétériennes) et discute les questions de demande effective soulevées par les modifications de la répartition et le processus de rattrapage. [eng] This paper analyses a number of issues which were characteristic of the growth processes of advanced economies in the 1980s and 1990s : (i) there was an important diffusion process of a new general purpose technology (GPT); (ii) as a broad characterisation, one can say that the US took on the role as an « innovator » in introducing this GPT with Europe broadly following ; (iii) there was a speed up of catching-up of a sub-group of developing economies (South East Asian, later China and India) in an era of increasing globalisation ; (iv) both factors (i) and (iii) should in principle have given a boost to global economic growth ; however, for quite some time, it looks as if actual growth is in a more precarious state in advanced economies than in the earlier post-war period.Download Info
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Defining the Role of Astrocytes in Neuromodulation
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Astrocytes undergo elevations in intracellular calcium following activation of metabotropic receptors, which may trigger glutamate secretion and excitation of surrounding neurons. In this issue of Neuron, Fiacco et al. use transgenic mice that express a foreign Gq-coupled receptor in astrocytes to show that selective stimulation of astrocytes is not sufficient to induce the release of glutamate.


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For Seattle, Beating 49ers Means Reversing History
by Randy Shaw' Jan. 13' 2014
Seattle has long sought status as a world-class city. But its sports teams have not helped the cause. Seattle's baseball, football and basketball teams have won a combined total of one championship, and that was by the NBA's now departed Sonics in 1979 (they are now the Oklahoma City Thunder). That's why the stakes are so high for the Seahawks. Beating the 49ers next Sunday means more than a single game---it means reversing the city�s history of sports failure.
The NFL has the match-up everyone wanted, and the Seattle-SF game could have the highest title game ratings ever. These are the NFL�s best two teams, and the winner is the strong favorite to win the Super Bowl.
49er fans feel destiny is on their side. After a slow start following their tough Super Bowl loss, the team has come roaring back. It looks stronger than ever heading into next week.
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We've been documenting a lot recently how Alteryx can help with common Tableau data cleansing tasks and creating radar charts is no different. For the Top Trumps Viz below I decided to use radar charts to compare the different characters in the set of cards and their attributes.
Firstly I need to standardise the value attributes so I summarised the variables to find the minimum and maximum values and attached those back to the data, then creating a standardised value between 0 and 1 was simple using the formula:
Next I simply needed to number each attribute 1 – 6 according to the spoke they took on the radar and, remembering SOHCAHTOA from my high school maths, then write the following formulae in the tool:
Andrew's post lays out the rest of the details and so I won't go into them here, here is my final Alteryx implementation to clean and build the data for the Viz:
The only things to add to Andrew's post are that I created a dummy value (a hero called "Chris"), with all the values as 1, which made lining up the template radar picture in Tableau an easier process. It meant I could tweak the X, Y coordinates and get the radar exactly right – then hide the dummy row in my final analysis:
The idea for the viz came from a game I was playing with my eldest son, I was trying to teach him some of the nuances of Top Trumps, he's only 5 years old and so in his mind choosing the highest value (Height in this case) was the best way of playing, even when the height for that card was the lowest in the overall set of heights. I thought about ways of showing him the comparisons between the cards and thus the viz was born. Thankfully the data was online and publicly available and so I was able to produce the viz in Tableau Public and share it.
Radar charts were a choice I made based on my requirements, I want to see which attributes in my card are better as a whole, based on a quick, holistic view in comparison to other cards. Whether a parallel plot is better I think will be a matter of debate, on the whole it's certainly easier to quickly compare a given attribute across the five chosen heroes, so I've also included an alternative view including a parallel plot for those who prefer to work with those.
Click below to see the final viz.
While sitting at home last week listening to the storm outside, hoping the roof would still be attached by morning, I took to Google to find data for hourly wind speeds in the UK. No dice. What I did find was an open weather API openweathermap.org which produces some fantastic live weather data from around the world. After some data capture I managed to produce the following dashboard, read on if you want to know how it was done.
Tableau doesn't natively connect to custom APIs let alone live ones which leaves two choices for capturing the data. The Tableau TDE API or our favourite data blending & advanced analytics tool Alteryx. For this project I went with Alteryx simply for speed and the ability to easily schedule the process using Alteryx Server.
The Aleryx app takes a list of cities from my SQL Server, queries each one in turn against the API and then assembles the results back to the SQL database. There are three different XML parse tools in play as the XML returned by the API has a number of layers with each parse tool dealing with a different layer. The results are then assembled back into the SQL database for analysis by Tableau.
There really are only 2 primary pieces of information relating to wind, speed & direction. Speed's no problem to encode in Tableau and in this example I made use of both size and colour, the larger and more purple being greater speeds. But what about direction? Clearly arrows are a great way to express direction but without an angle/rotation shelf in Tableau another solution was needed.
When trying to figure out how to tackle these problems in Tableau I start to look at what I haven't used on the marks card. I could switch to the polygon mark type, and effectively draw what ever I like, but that seems like overkill especially when that shape shelf is sitting there unused. The challenge is how to get the arrow to rotate, at at least look like it's rotating.
Back when I created a viz to compare the ratings of Larry King vs Piers Morgan I decided to show an image of every guest…all 477 of them! Now assigning them one by one simply wasn't an option so I had to use the assign palette function, what's key is that Tableau assigns each shape in turn and also lists the shapes in alphabetical order. So if you can get the shapes palette in the same order as your data you can in effect assign 360 rotated arrows to their corresponding angles.
So how did I go about creating 360 rotated arrows? Again taking to Google and I found the command line image editor ImageMagick for which I wrote a bat script to incrementally rotate the arrow and save the output to a new file. Boom, 360 rotated arrows that can now be assigned to the wind direction.
About a month ago we announced our latest partnership with map delivery experts Mapbox. Amongst other things the new capabilities brought to Tableau mapping via Mapbox are a fully customised map palette and custom mapping layers. Within a few minutes I'd created a map which becomes part of the dashboard by matching the ocean colour to the dashboard background.
Thanks also to a well timed email from Paul Chapman (@cheeky_chappie) I had a shapefile of flood alert areas in England to add an extra dimension to the storm analysis.
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Are you a Tableau user who has been wondering what all the recent chat about Alteryx software is all about? You may have seen their recent partnership with Tableau, or announcements about our partnership with Alteryx, or just noticed an increase in social media posts including the #tableau and #alteryx hashtags.
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]]>I decided I wanted to create an explorer viz: where users could navigate their own way through the data. My end user in mind was a student who might soon be applying to University and wondering where to study. Users can see a league table of institutions, with the option to narrow down by subject group and/or subject. Hovering over an institution then brings up the option to see the results in more detail. And lastly you can then compare the detailed results with a second institution.
If you're wondering how I was able to map the institutions, I did this by finding a data source online of HE names and postcodes and then using Alteryx to join these to my original data set. Then I joined a set of full UK postcodes with latitudes and longitudes (available from our Tableau mapping site) and output to .tde. If anyone is interested in the mechanics of this, please get in touch. Or maybe that could be another blog post… Of course if you want the data set with postcodes you can download the viz from Tableau Public and create your own analysis. If you do, please post a link to your work in the comments!]]>
Clearly the authentication username-password challenge had to be done by active directory in order to keep usernames and passwords consistent, however until Tableau Server 8.1 our only option would have been to explore a custom trusted ticket authentication interface. With the introduction of SAML in Tableau 8.1 and Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 with Windows Server 2008 (as an update) & 2012 authentication could pass seamlessly from the active directory to Salesforce and then onto Tableau.
So how do you go about configuring a Tableau Server, not situated anywhere near your enterprise domain, to work with active directory? Here's how….
It's assumed you have a working instance of Tableau Server & Windows active directory. The instructions will be based on Server 2012 however should also carry across into Server 2008 with the AD FS 2.0 update. You'll need a valid SSL certificate key pair for the AD FS server & Tableau Server, I'll point you in the right direction when it comes to it. It is also important that usernames configured on your Tableau Server match those on your active directory so if you haven't created an admin account on Tableau which matches the username of your own or test AD account I'd do that now.
I'm going to assume you don't have AD FS already installed & configured, if you do you can skim read this section, just make sure you save the FederationMetadata xml at the end.
AD FS requires a certificate to be in place in IIS under the Default Site. If you don't already have a certificate you'll need to generate a certificate signing request and submit it to a fully configured enterprise or third party certificate authority (I'd recommend RapidSSL as they have lots of instructions about how to do this). Don't forget the CN (common name) needs to be the fully qualified domain name of your AD FS server as it'll be seen by the Tableau Server. e.g. adfs.theinformationlab.co.uk
Congrats! AD FS is up and running….make yourself a coffee.
While these steps are specific to AD FS SAML integration they can be translated to any SAML identity provider (IdP).
While Tableau's starting go back to your AD FS server with the newly exported Metadata xml file.
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If you decide that for whatever reason you do need to perform some web scraping, be it for competitive intelligence, data journalism, etc then you're likely to be wondering where to start. Most people start by copying data into Excel and hacking around with it. It's a fair enough approach but what happens when your data source on the web is updated daily, is spread across a few pages, or you're too busy to keep checking it, or you just want something that's just plain clever. Well that's where the folks at KimonoLabs.com come in; their product Kimono, which lets you turn websites to APIs in seconds,and is amazingly simple to use.
Let's walk through an example. Firstly we sign up to the Beta for Kimono then drag the "Kimonify" link they provided to our bookmarks bar. We navigate to a website (in this case www.alteryx.com\events) and hit "kimonify" in the bookmarks bar. Imagine we wanted to pull out a live feed of all the upcoming Alteryx events….
We start to define our fields, first we might want to pull out the Date of the event, so we click on the first events date, and then the second, and Kimono picks up the rest (shown via the highlighting). We give the Property a name ("Date" in this case) and we're done (hit +):
Next we want to pick out the Start Time <click>, this time Kimono also asked if we meant to highlight the end time by showing a tick box (sometimes this is useful – but in this case let's save that for another property), we hit the cross to say No.
In this way we quickly build up a few more properties, End Time and Title were added. Finally we hit done, and are greeted by the details of the API we've just created – how simple is that! <20 clicks and we've built a realtime API:
So how do we use this in an automated BI process? Thankfully Alteryx can help there, using the csv endpoint we just feed the URL into a Text Input Tool and use the Download tool to bring the data into our module
I'll leave it as a reader exercise to see how to parse out the csv delimited file (if you don't have it maybe use the free version of Alteryx), here's my module to help (note that this will become easier with JSON parsing in v9 of Alteryx):
The possibilities are endless, especially as with Kimono we can feed in query parameters if we build an API off URLs that accept them, so using Kimono and Alteryx this evening I've successfully automated:
It's limitless what the BI community will build out of this, using Kimono, Alteryx and Tableau we can imagine some amazing possibilities. Please share your results with us.
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If you looked at the second dashboard then I hear you shouting "You cheated! You used a separate application to generate the data". Well sorry folks, but that's how us new guys make a name for ourselves – by building things even the most advanced users would find difficult. So yes, to generate the data I used Alteryx – a data manipulation tool that specialises in data manipulation and geospatial analysis (as well as predictive analytics) – but I assure you all it required was some straightforward data manipulation and a little bit of an imagination for problem solving – as promised there were no complex calculations and no hard maths.
Let's start by looking at the problem of generating the arrows themselves, how can we solve this? My Alteryx experience told me that all I needed was a set of points for each arrow and then I could use the Alteryx Build Polygon Tool to generate the shapes as polygons (Adam Riley at Alteryx recently independently used this technique to draw gauges in Alteryx reports). If you remember doing dot-to-dots as a child then this will be familiar to you, all we need to do is generate the dots, in order, and Alteryx will help us to do the rest. I put my thinking cap on and came up with the following "maths-free" approach.
Makes sense right? There are so many other ways of solving this problem but I like the simplicity of this solution, and Alteryx allows me the luxury of solving the problem in the way I want; in fact that's one of the reasons that makes Alteryx appealing for such a wide range of problems – it allows you to concentrate on solving the problem your way, and take away any coding challenges. So what tools does Alteryx provide to help me implement my solution? Let me introduce some of them and talk about how they are traditionally used, and how I'm using them:
I'm using some other tools too, such as Sort and Sample to collect the point nearest to the one I need, but those above are the main tools.
Alteryx also allows me to then encapsulate this logic into a single "macro" to reuse in other modules, and we can expose simple parameters to allow us to control the functionality of the underlying tools dynamically. I've done this in order to embed the logic in a larger module to transform the migration data into Tableau. You can download the full packaged module here and take a look at how it works in Alteryx (download a trial if you haven't already).
I've also created a public "app" in the Alteryx Gallery using my Arrow Generation module. Apps are simple to set up via Alteryx and can be instantly published to the Gallery via one button click. The result? Anyone can now generate their own arrows for tableau, in tde format, using a free, public application. Visit the app* here and register for the gallery to try it out, no software install necessary, and watch the three minute video below to see how easy this is for any to produce stunning visualisations in Tableau using this app – and make sure you let us know what you think.
*Please note the app is not necessarily production ready, and hasn't been tested thoroughly to catch all errors – it is intended as a demonstration of what is possible.
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Eric Gundersen, CEO and Co-founder of Mapbox said "It's simple – Tableau's Business Intelligence and Analytics stack now has better maps thanks to this partnership with The Information Lab. Custom maps and design control is key for anyone working with data and the team at The Information Lab gets how to design with data. This is just the start of making fast and beautiful maps together".
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]]>Firstly, I must remind you about our Chrome Extension. You've already got this installed, haven't you? It's really great for getting to your views quickly, but it's not (yet) selective about which workbooks to show you.
This idea came from one of our clients, who wanted to present some views to senior management, all from different workbooks in different projects, without having to see and follow the Tableau Server hierarchical interface. We looked at using tags, but this was in a board room with a giant touch screen TV. The experience had to be mind bending.
We started with a basic index page, of various views to go to. Following the links would take people to views in Tableau. There is a well-documented explanation of how to put additional web pages on your Tableau Server. But this didn't quite make it sexy enough. How do you make it obvious to people what to do when they go back?
The best answer we came up with was to use a lightbox. You've seen these before, but normally with pictures. You click on one, the picture bursts out of the page, and you can flick through them without leaving the page. What we put together uses an open source version, but adapted to work with the Tableau Javascript API.
You want to download it already? Go for it.
Or just see it in action?
The starting point is an XML file. This contains some information about your server, in the demo case we have used Tableau Public; a logo file, and a title:
<title>The Information Lab Vizs</title>
There is also a series of nodes for each view. These <thumbnail>
nodes relate to a thumbnail or link on the dashboard. The heading is the name for this thumbnail, the other three elements are the parts of the URL for the view. On Tableau Public, the full URL to Craig's post is:
This is split into three components: The server URL (public.tableausoftware.com), the path for the workbook (JesusbornonaWeekday) and the path for the view (Jesusbornonaweekday). If you use sites, you should include the /t/sitename in this Server URL.
There is an optional fourth path, a <tooltippath>, which is will show the PNG version of a view (so is the same as
You can build this up using views from different servers but the user will need to be logged into each separately. The log-in link at the top is really there to determine where to get the javascript API from.
We're using Tableau Public, so there isn't any view security here, but the package is designed to work with Servers which require authentication. If a user doesn't have permission to see a view, or if it doesn't exist, the thumbnail won't be shown. For example, in the XML, there is a duff entry, and no thumbnail for it. (I don't think it will take long for someone to work out how to add their view to this demo!)
If the user doesn't see any views, then we make an assumption that they're not logged in, so they get prompted to log in. This isn't terribly sexy as yet, but it does mean that people can't see any of the content if they aren't authorised. They might know your view is there, though, so that's worth considering.
This will work from your desktop, but not easily. Chrome and Firefox block the Javascript (for good reason). It does work in Internet Explorer, although you have to allow blocked content.
The best place to put this, though, is on a web server. It will quite happily reside on your intranet, but you can put it in the errors folder on Tableau Server (in most installations this is at Tableau/Tableau Server/data/tabsvc/config/httpd and accessible via http://your.tableauserver.com/errors/).
The main requirement here is that the fancybox folder and the three dashboard files (CSS, JS, XSL) all reside in the same folder as your XML file. You could have multiple XML files, but they must all be co-located.
Most of the layout is determined by CSS. I'm not going to spend long on this; if you need more help you can either follow some excellent tutorials such as at w3schools.org/css or get in touch.
I hope you find this useful as you try to impress your Tableau viewer community.


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Abstract—The main issues of developing an automatic and reliable scheme for spline-fitting are discussed and addressed in this paper, which are not fully covered in previous papers or algorithms. The proposed method incorporates B-spline active contours, the minimum description length (MDL) principle, and a novel control point insertion strategy based on maximizing the Potential for Energy-Reduction Maximization (PERM). A comparison of test results shows that it outperforms one of the better existing methods.
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After coming into last night's ballgame 5-0 in his last six starts, Cliff Lee failed to hold a four-run lead when he allowed four runs on eight hits and three walks while striking out nine in 122 pitches. Jeremy Horst gave up the winning run in the ninth, and the Phillies lost, 5-4.
Lee, who was up to .316 in late May, even went 0-for-3 at the plate.
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Blame the Twizzler?
- Negativo - Jun 8, 2013 at 5:37 PM
I'm confused as to why Horst is allowed to continue pitching on the squad? It's almost as if we are one horst-cut away from being a contender….
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HOWEVER, keeping horst makes more sense than not amnestying Hartnell (DONT CRIPPLE OUR FRANCHISE HOMER!!!!!)
- Hiccup - Jun 8, 2013 at 5:55 PM
I worried about Lee throwing so many pitches, I'd feel better if he was limited to 100-105; why stress his arm at this point in the season? Another loss wouldn't. Kill them but losing Lee to an injury would.
Also Cadbury/Shwepps just offered Lee $500,000 to have another on his next outing or $1,000,000 if he sticks it in his nose.
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Mushrooms can be prepared to produce a myriad of flavors, and when coupled with olive oil and Nama Shoyu, there are a number of health benefits to be enjoyed. Mushrooms are rich in selenium, which is excellent for the bladder. Just eating 5 mushrooms results in about 31% of the recommended daily amount for selenium. Since Selenium is rich in anti-oxidants, it also offers benefits that result in a risk reduction of heart disease and stroke.
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