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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


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


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


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


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...
Nov 10, 20213 min read


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...
Nov 2, 20212 min read


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...
Oct 26, 20212 min read


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...
Oct 19, 20211 min read


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...
Oct 11, 20212 min read


Multiple Charts in the Tooltip?
If you are a beginner user in Tableau, you may not realize that you can add charts to the Tooltip of your dashboard. By doing so you...
Oct 5, 20212 min read


How to Create a Rounded Stacked Bar Chart with Percentages
Do you have a dashboard where you want to add a chart a little more interesting than a bar chart? I kept most of the instructions from...
Sep 28, 20212 min read


Creating an Nth Label
Have you ever tried to put labels on your line graph and you were not happy with the default options of All, Min/max, Line Ends,...
Sep 20, 20211 min read


Advanced Tips You Didn't Know That You Should Know
This article lists a couple of Do's and Don'ts for beginner Tableau users. Remove Keep Only and Exclude in your Tooltips This option, in...
Sep 14, 20213 min read


How to Switch a Background Image with a Selection
In this example I created this Tableau dashboard to mimic the different links for this website. If you hover over worksheet with the...
Sep 9, 20212 min read


Create a Custom Color Palette
Did you know you can create your own custom color palette to display in the Tableau Color Marks card? You will need to know the hex...
Sep 1, 20211 min read


3 Custom Shapes You Should have
One of the most important things to have in your Tableau Tool box are certain custom shapes. I use Icons8.com and flaticons.com for free...
Aug 25, 20211 min read


The Shape Problem
Have you ever wanted to show shapes to represent something such as initiatives or certain steps in a project? Would you want to combine...
Aug 11, 20212 min read


Create Date "Buttons"
Do your users want to filter your dashboard by the Days, Weeks, Months and Years? I like to create a set of buttons as shown below with...
Aug 4, 20212 min read


A Bar Chart but with Shapes?
Have you ever wondered how to make a bar chart but with custom shapes? I documented the steps below from this youtube video by Toan...
Jul 29, 20212 min read


Create a Drill-Down Proportional Bar Chart with Set Actions
Do you want to add a chart to your dashboard where you can click on it and drill into the next level of data? An example would be with...
Jul 28, 20212 min read
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