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Tableau Optimization Tips
How do I optimize the performance of my dashboard? I get asked this question a lot. There are multiple ways to do so. According to the...
Jun 22, 20223 min read
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Dynamic Headers for Dynamic Columns
As a follow up the previous post about Dynamic Columns, a user asked me if there was a way to display the parameter selected as the...
Jun 13, 20221 min read
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Dynamic Columns
Has a user ever requested that they can create their own report for exporting purposes and they want to be able to adjust the order of...
Jun 1, 20222 min read
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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...
May 25, 20223 min read
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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...
May 9, 20224 min read
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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...
May 4, 20222 min read
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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'...
Apr 13, 20223 min read
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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. ...
Apr 4, 20223 min read
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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...
Mar 23, 20223 min read
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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...
Mar 11, 20222 min read
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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...
Mar 2, 20222 min read
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Tableau and API
Have you heard of the buzz word API? Wikipedia defines API as "An application programming interface is a connection between computers...
Feb 24, 20221 min read
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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? ...
Feb 14, 20223 min read
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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. ...
Feb 1, 20221 min read
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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...
Jan 24, 20222 min read
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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...
Jan 14, 20222 min read
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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....
Jan 4, 20222 min read
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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...
Dec 16, 20211 min read
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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)....
Dec 6, 20213 min read
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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...
Nov 17, 20214 min read
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