There’s something uniquely surreal about walking through the halls of Tableau Conference. It feels like a kaleidoscope of familiar faces, brilliant minds, hallway conversations, caffeine, dashboards, and absolute chaos. I joke that my name is known in the community, but I’m not exactly “#TableauFamous” like Andy Kriebel or the Flerlage Twins famous. That said, Andy and I had a chance to chat during the conference, and we may have something interesting coming soon. Stay tuned.

There are many ways of creating bar charts and they are the most commonly used chart for analysis. Check out Robert Rouse 's Bar Chart menu in Tableau public here to see the many different ways you can display bar charts! The chart I am going to show you how to create uses Tableau's Measure Names and Measure Values function. Here is an example of the chart in my Tableau Intermediate Course dashboard here . First we will create the simple bar chart version of this view by pla

You have formatted the labels on your bar chart to be at the end of the bars. However, there is an overlap for the very longest bar as shown below. How do you fix this? There is a simple way to fix this with using the Distribution Band on the Analytics pane! Simply drag Distribution Band to your worksheet. Delete 60%, 80% of Average Value and type 120% . Then select Total instead of Average in the last drop-down field. Your new settings should appear as below in this bef

What is a Jitter Bar chart? It looks like a COMBINATION of a Bar and a Scatter plot. Why you use Bar charts - when you want to show values for different groups. They can be used for rankings and visual differences between categories. Why you use Scatter plots - when you want to identify a pattern between two numerical values. They can also be used to display outliers and show trends in the data. Adding a Standard Deviation to a Scatter plot helps you to visualize the re

Continuing from last week's blog about creating a Tree map chart inside a Bar chart; this week I will cover how to create a Bar inside a Bar chart! I'm not talking about Stacked bar charts but a series of bars in side a bigger bar! This blog is also an example of why you would use an EXCLUDE LOD calculation. This was a Workout Wednesday challenge from early in 2025. Donna Coles provides you with steps using the Subtotals function from the Tableau's Analysis menu here . Workou

Bar charts are the number one chart used for analysis. In the next couple of blogs I want to review how to make different kinds of charts inside bars! A tree map is a chart that is used for visualizing hierarchical data and part to whole relationships. You can easily embed one inside a Bar chart in Tableau! I created one here in my first ever #GamesNightViz dashboard here on Lego Video Games! #GamesNightViz is a project started by Iron Viz winner Will Sutton . Tableau Vision

What if you have a dashboard that has worksheets pointing to two data sources on the server? The issue is that you want to filter both using only one filter. Maybe you have a Date value in both and you don't want to display two different Date filters on your dashboard. How can you solve for this? You could perform data blending , however, this has some downsides such as performance issues, and you can't use some calculations such as COUNTD, MEDIAN etc. I suggest using a par

What if you wanted to reduce the number of worksheets you have in a dashboard. Did you know that you can put your KPI in the title of a worksheet? I found this idea from Sebastine Amede 's Tableau Public dashboard 20 KPI Cards Using Only Table Calculations here . Printscreen of his Tableau Public dashboard He has quite a few different options for displaying this "all in one" concept. He is only displaying the metric Profit , so I wanted to see if I could replicate it, but wi

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