Two Use Cases for Set Actions in a Tooltip
Sometimes we may have questions about a subset of data in our dashboard view. Sets Actions enable your audience to interact with a view...
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- Jan 29
- 1 min
Tiny Tableau Tips
By Dawn Harrington Did you know that you can find some quick Tableau tips without having to read a whole blog? I just learned about this...
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- Jan 23
- 2 min
Featured Items From Past Tableau Releases
Has it been a while since you experienced a Tableau upgrade? Here are some features of note for the past couple of releases. Create...
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- Jan 16
- 2 min
How to Create a Gradient Bar Chart
If you are new to Tableau I strongly recommend that you favorite or bookmark the Bar Chart menu dashboard by Robert Rouse here. It...
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- Jan 7
- 6 min
Creating a Hogwarts Drill-Down Organizational Hierarchy
Can you create an organizational hierarchy in Tableau that you can drill down and drill up? You can, but you have to set up your data in...
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- Jan 1
- 2 min
New Year New You Viz Challenge!
We've all had New Year resolutions that we have made, and then maybe dropped in past years. Would anyone like to join me with making a...
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- Dec 19, 2023
- 2 min
Workout Wednesday Flexible Tabular Display
Are you a beginner user in Tableau? If you haven't heard of the Workout Wednesday website, I strongly urge you to check it out. You can...
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- Dec 7, 2023
- 2 min
How to Make Rounded Corners
By Dawn Harrington Have you ever wondered how to make rounded corners for your visualizations in Tableau without using Figma? I just...
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- Nov 28, 2023
- 3 min
The Text in a Table Problem
By Dawn Harrington Recently I had a user approach me with an interesting issue. How do you call out if a metric is improving in a text...
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- Nov 15, 2023
- 1 min
Add Text to the End of a Tableau URL
By Dawn Harrington Did you know that you can add additional text at the end of your Tableau URL link, and it can improve performance?...
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- Nov 7, 2023
- 4 min
Weighted Average by Guest Blogger Cathy Young!
I've been asked how do you do a weighted average in Tableau? The below article was created by Cathy Young and is a downloadable PDF in...
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- Oct 25, 2023
- 2 min
Before and After Dashboards
In the below blog, I review multiple tips and tricks on enhancing dashboards. I created a tableau public dashboard here that shows you a...
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- Oct 10, 2023
- 2 min
Tableau Totals Trick
Have you noticed when you are trying to create a summary table with three dimensions and you add Totals, it looks a little strange? See...
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- Sep 26, 2023
- 1 min
Reference Lines Too Wide? Use This Trick!
In a previous post here, I listed how you can create calculations to cover current month and previous month values. I also showed you how...
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- Sep 19, 2023
- 2 min
Take Bar and Line Charts from Boring to Exciting!
Bar and Line charts are popular and exist in most Tableau dashboards. Below I will review ways you can enhance each chart type. Bar...
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- Aug 31, 2023
- 2 min
Separate Reference Lines for Each Pane
In an internal Tableau class I was teaching earlier this week, I reviewed how to create a Reference line using a Target or Sales Goal...
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- Aug 24, 2023
- 2 min
Dynamic Month Range Filters
Do you want to automatically filter your dashboard by the last 3 months or 6 months? In my public dashboard here, and in my previous blog...
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- Aug 17, 2023
- 2 min
Using REGEX Formulas
Do you have a column where you need to extract a word from a string of letters? Perhaps there is a combination of numbers, characters and...
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- Jul 25, 2023
- 3 min
Rolling Sum Calculations
If you are a beginner user to Tableau, you may not be aware of how to get a rolling 90 day or 120 day calculated field in Tableau. You...
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- Jul 7, 2023
- 2 min
Apply All Button
If you are new to Tableau, you may not be aware, but you can set an Apply button to each of your filters in the Customize filter menu...
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