tyler garrett
6 Beautiful Data Visualization Products and Open Source Libraries
Data visualization and data manipulation are highly sought-after skills. There are hundreds of Data visualization products currently available! End users have questions about data and using a data visualization product is the first step to answering those questions. Just a drop... Picking the right data visualization product is starting to come down to an exact science. What product do you need? What product should you buy? Can you use a programming language? Where do you invest your money? After you pick your data visualization tools, you also need to consider your end users! Building a user-friendly dashboard requires creativity, data transformation, a little science, a drop of design, and visual best practices. Maybe adding a drop or two too much will bubble over and make a good dashboard, bad. "Clutter and confusion are not attributes of data - they are shortcomings of design."…
Tableau Desktop 10.5 Update is Here!
Tableau Desktop 10.5 Update is here at last! One major note we notice is that 10.5 and above will require 64bit operating systems. Guess what?! Tableau Desktop 10.5 Update is packed with a bunch of cool new connectors, an improved data engine, updated extract API to support the new extract format, visualizations in tooltips, and much more. Here are a few notes from Tableau's site here. Be sure to upgrade and download the latest Tableau Desktop 10.5 update! Extracts use the new .hyper format Beginning with version 10.5, when you create an extract, it uses the new .hyper format. Extracts in this new format take advantage of the improved data engine, which supports the same analytical and query performance as the data engine before it, but for even larger extracts. Similarly, when you perform an extract task on a .tde extract using version 10.5, the extract is upgraded to a .hyper extract.…
How to Set Up a Free Chatroom on Your Website.
Interested in setting up a free chatroom on your website? Chatroll offers a safe place to set up a free chatroom on your website! By the end of this blog, you will understand how to quickly set up a Chatroll chatroom, embed it in WordPress, and what the chatroom will look like when you're finished. When hunting for a free chatroom to embed on your website, you will find a lot of cool apps along the way. Luckily Chatroll plays the part of filling the void with easy to embed chats and allows you to make multiple chatrooms to embed in HTML where ever you want. We are new in this process and want to show you how we did it. First, go to https://chatroll.com and click on the bright green button to sign up for free! Here's our Chatroll account - https://chatroll.com/profile/iTylergarrett. Sign Up Free at Chatroll.com and get your free chatroom. After you've signed up for your chatroll account,…
Site Building - What's Easy to Build Websites?
Site building is the new craze online, so, what app is easy to build websites? When digging through the jungle of content online - it's easy to get started on the wrong site builder. This blog will quickly give you insights into my opinion on what I consider easy to build. If you missed our previous blog post: take a look at the list of free site builders that offer a free subdomain! https://data.dev3lop.com/website-builder-offers-free-subdomain/ Personally, I enjoy websites that are so easy to administrate; a dog could do it. Because the last thing you want is a long process to generate something simple! Don't think you will have time to blog? Start with a voice to text! Our easy to build scale is 1 being the lowest score and 10 being the best score. Because if it's not easy, it's going to take a long time to be successful, and users will stick around if the website isn't attractive.…
MongoDB Atlas — Setting up MongoDB Compass Community — 6 of x.
Setting up MongoDB Compass Community is up next! Hello, welcome to our 6th tutorial. Our previous MongoDB Atlas tutorial walkthrough helps you get to the MongoDB Compass installation. Scroll to the bottom to jump into the rest of this series, especially if you’re just starting here. We will jump in now. Are you ready to connect to your MongoDB instance? Me too. Woohoo. I’m excited easily. MongoDB helps you SEND the correct connection info, in a simple copy/paste workflow, explained below. First, jump back to your MongoDB Atlas login. In the far right of your screen, you should see Connect. If you don’t, click on your Overview tab. Click connect. Click connect, now you get the same pop-up menu we used in the previous lesson. Find the ‘Connect with MongoDB Compass’ button. Click me! Once you’ve clicked on the button above, you get another menu. Copy the above code into a notepad,…
MongoDB Atlas —Install MongoDB Compass— 5 of X.
Importing a CSV into MongoDB Atlas, at last… We are actually getting ahead of ourselves, sorry. We guess things are about to get a little more technical. Please don’t skip this step. MongoDB compass seems important. This is where jumping around shoots you in the foot. They made a product to help with the legwork. We can only hope that's the case. So, we mean to say, install MongoDB Compass... We really really hope this works. Before we dig too deep into learning the command line code (honestly we were pretty far along in learning the command line code, and that’s when we remembered the MongoDB Compass tool)… Install MongoDB Compass Use the connect button again, under the overview tab. Click connect to direct us to the MongoDB Compass. Notice they have a ‘Connect with MongoDB Compass’ — boy howdy, we hope this lets me avoid touching code… For now, we feel safe. Let’s keep winging it.…
MongoDB Atlas —Connect an IP, Make it Public, Delete Access — 4 of X.
MongoDB at… last… Just kidding. We are not there yet. Soon we should have this up and running in Tableau Desktop. We hope. Connecting an IP to MongoDB is our next step. I’ve got an idea. Instead of using a CSV, I’m going to use MongoDB. Wait, I have another Idea, I need to give people access to my MongoDB Atlas, and I’m really glad I read everything and didn’t scan around, otherwise I’m probably going to miss this little step. BTW Bro: Don’t get blown away that you will need to install drivers to connect to MongoDB. I figured I would tell you now that it’s standard practice to download and install drivers to connect to… practically every database under the sun, son. This demo has two different directions, depending on what you want to do! Are you going to let anyone access your Cluster? Or are you going to just allow one or two IPs to connect to your instance? Not sure how to get your…
MongoDB Atlas — 3 of X. Setup your MongoDB Atlas — Build Your New Cluster.
Now, let’s focus on setting up your MongoDB Atlas to ensure you’re paying zero dollars! Right? By the end of this blog, you will have set up your first MongoDB Atlas cluster. If you’ve missed our previous writing about - MongoDB being not being that complex - you can read about it here on medium or here on Dev3lop. Also, if you need help signing up to MongoDB Atlas, then be sure to follow along in our previous tutorial. Robots building your MongoDB, you just guide the robots. Click, click, click. Beep Boop. Alright, once you’ve signed up to MongoDB Atlas, you’re going to dig into the process of generating your database. But being a revolutionary tech space, they don’t call it ‘building your database.’ Rather they call it ‘Build Your New Cluster!’ I can dig it. Build Your New Cluster on MongoDB Atlas (it’s free I promise.) Check it out, it’s free, so when you get to this page, it selects…
MongoDB Atlas — Signup to MongoDB Atlas. 2 of X
Alright, if you’ve read through our first MongoDB read through - also posted here on our site, hopefully, you understand MongoDB is not something to run away from. Rather, it’s just worded to capture their primary focus, which is developers or app developers. https://data.dev3lop.com/mongodb-atlas-finding-the-simple-in-the-complex-1-of-x/ By the end of this blog post, you will understand the process of signing up for MongoDB Atlas. Let’s jump into Sign up MongoDB Atlas. Open the MongoDB Atlas page. Sign up to MongoDB Atlas on this same page! Fill out your basic info; Name, Email, Password, Company, Number, Title,.. Click Sign up! Screenshot walkthrough for the Sign-up MongoDB Atlas thingy. If you’re like me, a visual learner, or scraping this for quick insights… Here’s the Screenshot walkthrough for setting up MongoDB. Find the form on the MongoDB Atlas page. Get your correct email,…
MongoDB Atlas — Finding the simple in the complex. 1 of X.
Would you like to try MongoDB Atlas for free? For an app developer, MongoDB covers a ton of features that would usually slow down the time it takes to generate an app. Why are you explaining how to use MongoDB? We recently built a custom data connector last week — from an FTP folder, with a bunch of CSVs, converted it to JSON, and then outputted to MongoDB using node.js… We started realizing something amazing about this database. Maybe MongoDB is easy. Maybe it’s easier than it appears, and doesn’t require a ton of programming, which opens it up to being used across millions of businesses that are currently stuck in the excel, CSV, workflows! Also, there is a free version that offers immediate access to a 3 node clustered, HA, etc.. Database. I know I said some technical stuff, but that doesn’t mean the installation is technical, which enables usage for any non-techy-business-peep.…