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How to setup Git on Windows [Git Bash and GitHub tutorial for beginners] - Things you were too afraid to ask your colleagues

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While every developer today is expected to have a basic knowledge of Git and various third party version control systems based on Git like GitHub and BitBucket, there are a large number of devs still using Team Foundation Server (TFS) and SVN. I won't make a case as to why Git is the most superior of the lot, you know it is when  Microsoft itself has now migrated the entire Windows source code onto Git internally . I just received a new laptop at work so might as well make this getting started guide. Setup Firstly, lets get the installation and setup out of the way. This is fairly straightforward : Download Git for Windows here  and follow the prompts in the wizard (there are a few preferences that you can change like your text editor to Notepad++ and Unix/Windows style commits, but I usually leave them as default) Creating a "repo" - dedicate a folder on your drive of choice to be your Git repository say D:\MyWorkspace Step 1 - Setting up your identifiers ...
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How to use the Viz in Tooltip feature in Tableau

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With the release of Tableau 10.5, a much awaited feature has been made available to us - I am of course talking about the Viz In Tooltip feature. This feature allows us to augment our data and add another layer of detail to our data visualization in a neat and minimal manner. It is actually a fairly straight forward process and below are the steps that we need to follow: Step 1 - Create the Tooltip Viz (or shall I say, 'Sub' Viz) This is the Viz that you will be embedding onto your main Viz and will be visible as you hover or click as a tooltip. As an example, in my cryptocurrency visualization - the circulating volume growth is the Tooltip Viz that I want to be displayed. Tooltip Viz Step 2 - Add the Tooltip Viz as a tooltip in your 'Main' Viz Navigate to your main viz and in the 'Marks' section, click on the tooltip option which will open an 'Edit Tooltip window'.  Here, click on the Insert drop down sub menu and go to Sh...
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