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    Data Blending - Is it Good or Bad?
    • 6 hours ago
    • 3 min

    Data Blending - Is it Good or Bad?

    Suppose you have two data sources that you can't pull in with a join or a union. How do you bring in these two data sources? Tableau has...
    42 views
    Tableau's Order of Operations or Everyone's Data Can Dance Many Times
    • May 9
    • 4 min

    Tableau's Order of Operations or Everyone's Data Can Dance Many Times

    Do you have a dashboard that has filters on it, but they don't seem to work? Tableau has an order that it applies certain actions. You...
    149 views
    How to Union Your Data in Tableau
    • May 4
    • 2 min

    How to Union Your Data in Tableau

    Do you receive a new file from a client every month? Do you want to automatically incorporate this data into Tableau? Did you know you...
    409 views
    All About Those Tooltips
    • Apr 13
    • 3 min

    All About Those Tooltips

    Are you a beginner user and you want to put some pizzaz in your Tooltip? Do you want to make it more exciting than just the plain ol'...
    222 views
    How Do I Get Started With Tableau?
    • Apr 4
    • 3 min

    How Do I Get Started With Tableau?

    During a Tableau User Group meeting last week, a couple of users asked me how to get started at becoming a great Tableau Developer. ...
    223 views
    Reference Lines And Other Helpful Month Over Month Visuals
    • Mar 23
    • 3 min

    Reference Lines And Other Helpful Month Over Month Visuals

    Do you want a quick way to visually see month over month comparisons? In my tableau public dashboard here, I created a couple of visuals...
    362 views
    Forecasting in Tableau
    • Mar 11
    • 2 min

    Forecasting in Tableau

    If you are a beginner user, you may have seen a chart like the one below. Predictive analytics seem to be all the rage in the data...
    377 views
    Laws of UX
    • Mar 2
    • 2 min

    Laws of UX

    Did you know there are many "laws" that designers should consider before they design a dashboard? In this link here, they review these...
    199 views
    Tableau and API
    • Feb 24
    • 1 min

    Tableau and API

    Have you heard of the buzz word API? Wikipedia defines API as "An application programming interface is a connection between computers...
    385 views
    Now You See It, Now You Don't Button
    • Feb 14
    • 3 min

    Now You See It, Now You Don't Button

    Have you ever wanted to create a dynamic button? It will appear only when a certain option in a drop-down (or Parameter) is selected? ...
    420 views
    How to Download Multiple Sheets to a PDF or PowerPoint
    • Feb 1
    • 1 min

    How to Download Multiple Sheets to a PDF or PowerPoint

    In one of my previous blog posts here, I went over how you could add a Download button to your dashboard using the Object Extension. ...
    266 views
    Dots or Stars? - Simple Table Tips
    • Jan 24
    • 2 min

    Dots or Stars? - Simple Table Tips

    Here is a fun way to accentuate if your team made their sales goals in a simple table in Tableau. In my blog two weeks ago, I mentioned a...
    148 views
    So Your Client Wants a Table in Your Dashboard
    • Jan 14
    • 2 min

    So Your Client Wants a Table in Your Dashboard

    Sometimes a client wants to see a table in Tableau. After you stress that Tableau is not meant to be an excel spreadsheet with multiple...
    690 views
    Proportional Brushing
    • Jan 4
    • 2 min

    Proportional Brushing

    Have you ever wondered how to compare a proportion of your data visually against a total? There are a couple of different ways to do so....
    174 views
    Download Your Dashboard as a PDF From a Button!
    • Dec 16, 2021
    • 1 min

    Download Your Dashboard as a PDF From a Button!

    Did you know you can add a button to your dashboard to download the view directly to a PDF or PowerPoint document? You can also do this...
    307 views
    Create a Sankey Diagram on a Map
    • Dec 6, 2021
    • 3 min

    Create a Sankey Diagram on a Map

    If you saw the 2020 Iron Viz, one of the winners, Christian Felix, created a stunning visualization with lines across a map (listed here)....
    296 views
    How to Create a Diverging Stacked Bar Chart
    • Nov 18, 2021
    • 4 min

    How to Create a Diverging Stacked Bar Chart

    Do you have survey data? Do you want an interesting way to show the negative versus positive responses? Use a Diverging Stacked Bar...
    178 views
    Different Metrics, Different Rows, Different Colors using MIN(1)
    • Nov 10, 2021
    • 3 min

    Different Metrics, Different Rows, Different Colors using MIN(1)

    Do you have KPI numbers that you want to have a different color scheme for each row? There are several ways to enter KPI (Key...
    166 views
    Navigation Objects
    • Nov 2, 2021
    • 2 min

    Navigation Objects

    Did you know that you can insert an object into your dashboard that will allow the user to navigate to different dashboards? Let's say...
    81 views
    How to Show/Hide a Chart with a Button
    • Oct 26, 2021
    • 2 min

    How to Show/Hide a Chart with a Button

    Have you heard of the floating container functionality in Tableau? Did you know you can put a chart (or charts) into these floating...
    148 views
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