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From a Line to a Spark!
What are sparkline charts? Sparkline charts are small line charts that are vertically stacked together instead of combining them all on...
Jan 62 min read
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What is the Best Way to Show a Price Increase in a Dashboard?
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...
Dec 24, 20243 min read
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What Charts are Best for Human Eyes?
Did you know some charts are better for human perception than others? There have been several studies on graphical perception or how we...
Dec 11, 20242 min read
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Custom Legend Buttons
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....
Dec 5, 20242 min read
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Now You See it, Now You Don't
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...
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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Be Kind to Your Future Self
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...
Nov 4, 20242 min read
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I'm Drawing a Blank...
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...
Oct 28, 20242 min read
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Workout Wednesday Challenges You should Try
If you are new to Tableau, you may not have heard of Workout Wednesday Challenges. What are they? They are weekly challenges to expand...
Oct 9, 20242 min read
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Resumes in Tableau?!
Not only can you create dashboards to showcase your skills as a Tableau developer in Tableau Public , but you can create an interactive...
Sep 19, 20241 min read
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Which Image AI Generators Should You Use?
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...
Sep 10, 20242 min read
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Visual Filters - Sheet Swap with an Image!
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...
Sep 3, 20242 min read
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How to Create a Date Granularity Filter
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?...
Aug 20, 20242 min read
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Automatically Filter a Dashboard for Managers
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...
Jul 21, 20242 min read
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Level Up Your Gantt Chart
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...
Jul 12, 20243 min read
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