This may end up becoming an entire series of posts of The Importance of…<\/p>\n
Understanding. What I mean by this is the importance of understanding what’s actually happening. In terms of data, take Tableau. Tableau is a wonderful data visualization tool. One that’s incredibly easy to get started with. But, there comes a point where users can get frustrated because the computer\/software “just won’t do what I want it to!”<\/p>\n
This is where the lack of understanding of what’s happening really becomes painful. As I myself tackle more of the complex and advanced features of software like Tableau, I’m having a lot of the ah-ha moments. As I work through problems, read blogs, and attempt to recreate what I’m seeing out there in the world – I’m finding a deeper understanding for what the software is actually doing, capable of doing, and where the software can<\/em> do something – but then knowing that it’s really not designed for that and there may be a better way.<\/p>\n As an example, I recently recreated some of the work @jonathandrummey<\/a> and @rodyzakovich<\/a> outlined around the ideas of Filters As Parameters<\/a> by means of scaffolds of data. The concept is to replicate data so that no matter what you do, there is always something present in the viz. This is a fundamental concept in Tableau. If an item is present in the viz, you can interact with it. However, when you filter something out – it’s no longer there and you can’t use it. Makes sense, right? So the ‘hack’ is to replicate the data so that you can filter something out – and still have it available.<\/p>\n This is the point of understanding. By thinking clearly about the problem and combining with understanding of how something works, you can create a massively powerful solution – one that wouldn’t be available without the knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This may end up becoming an entire series of posts of The Importance of… Understanding….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[8,15],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viz","tag-data","tag-tableau"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-j-c.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-j-c.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-j-c.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-j-c.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-j-c.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-j-c.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a-j-c.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-j-c.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a-j-c.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}