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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
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Sample Tool vs Random Sample Tool
Do you need to pull a sample of data from a large dataset to validate formulas? Here are two tools in Alteryx that can pull from your...
Sep 24, 20212 min read
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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
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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
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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
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A Few Helpful Alteryx Formulas
There are so many different Formulas (or Functions as found in this helpful reference article here.) in Alteryx. Below are just a few...
Sep 9, 20211 min read
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How to Add Grand Totals to Your Data
Have you ever wondered how to add Subtotals and Grand totals to your data set? Here is one method; In this example I start out with the...
Sep 2, 20212 min read
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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
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The Directory Tool
Have you ever wondered why you would use the Directory Tool? This tool provides a listing of all the files in a specific directory (or...
Aug 27, 20212 min read
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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
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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
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What is the Fuzzy Match Tool?
Have you ever wondered what this complex tool does? It can help to identify non-identical duplicates in a column. What are...
Aug 5, 20212 min read
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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
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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
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