Category Archives: Quick & Dirty

Classify records based on keywords in a text field

Have you ever been tasked to assign customers to a category based on a free form text field? This happens a lot in B2B marketing, using the Title that a prospect has input into a form. It can certainly be … Continue reading

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YoY YTD dashboard made easy in Tableau

When using a set of dated transactions which gets updated, how do you provide a report which will track visually a monthly  YoY (Year over Year) YTD (Year to Date) comparison? This needs to work at the day level, to … Continue reading

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