If you are in reporting, chances are you have experienced this term. Have you been given an "urgent" change request from an upper manager for a dashboard? Did it need to happen yesterday? Did you notice that this request has caused a ripple effect of anxiety to multiple people, not just you? According to the Pragmatic PhD article here "Thrashing" is a term borrowed from computer science, referring to what happens when a computer’s virtual memory is over-used. Stress Thrash

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