In last week's blog Use KPI as a Filter! I reviewed several dashboards that allowed you to click on them to filter the rest of the...

If you are new to Tableau you may have seen KPI or BANs at the top of a dashboard. This is considered a best practice by Tableau's eye...

Is your client asking for something in a Tableau dashboard that doesn't make sense? Agreeing with them might seem easiest, but it's not...

The below blog is from Kate Crawford from the Information Lab. Her blog is located here ! Advanced Tables , or Fancy Tables as the...

Sometimes, Highlight Tables are confused with Heat Maps . A Heat Map is a table that uses colors across two axes. A Highlight Table ...

What are sparkline charts? Sparkline charts are small line charts that are vertically stacked together instead of combining them all on...

How do you take your data beyond a table view and why would you do so? I came across the below image online and this is a very common...

Did you know some charts are better for human perception than others? There have been several studies on graphical perception or how we...

If you are a beginner user to Tableau, you may be aware of the automatic legend that appears when you apply a Measure to a worksheet....

In past blog posts I talked about the importance of blank shapes. In this blog article I review a couple of use cases for them! Holiday...

Have you ever looked at a dashboard or workflow that you haven't touched in six months and you are like, "What was I thinking?" Perhaps...

Did you know that you can use blank objects and blank shapes in a Tableau dashboard? Both can be helpful for different use cases. I will...

If you are new to Tableau, you may not have heard of Workout Wednesday Challenges. What are they? They are weekly challenges to expand...

Not only can you create dashboards to showcase your skills as a Tableau developer in Tableau Public , but you can create an interactive...

There are a lot of AI Image generators out there that you can use to create images. Why would you use these? Well most images have a...

Do you have a client that wants to see data in different chart types in an already visually busy dashboard? If you use the Sheet Swapping...

Do you have a client that wants to change the axis of the graphs in your dashboard to flip from Days, Months, Weeks, Quarters or Years?...

Wouldn't it be great if you could design a dashboard for managers that was automatically filtered for just for them? You can do this with...

A Gantt chart is a great way to show processes over time and are typically used for Project management. Here is the help tableau site's...

In my live demo this week called Dawn's Design Demos, I will review how to create a Date Picker (or selector) for a dashboard. The...