Connecting Tableau to Web Data (part 1)

I am starting to use Tableau more at work and find it to be generally very good. We have a reasonably large code base built in C#. More and more we have been developing our in-house tools as Web apps within Asp.Net MVC and Asp.Net Web API. In general we use JSON for passing data…

Stupid Date Formats…

I have the annoying task of converting a text file into data (sufficiently annoying I am motivated to create my long delayed blog!). Within the same file there were two date entries: Mon Oct 06 05:19:38 EDT 2014 201486 The first is simple enough, though as quick search will show that EDT could refer to either Eastern…