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...
- 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'...
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- 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. ...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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? ...
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- 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. ...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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....
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- 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...
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- 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)....
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- Nov 17, 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- Oct 19, 2021
- 1 min
How to Pivot Your Data
Did you know you can pivot your data in Tableau? Do you have a data source that has multiple columns? Depending on how your data is...
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- Oct 11, 2021
- 2 min
Just a Few Bar Tips for Dashboards
Have you wondered how to add a line in your dashboard visually separating charts? Do you know how to add a Boarder to your Bars in your...
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