How to Create a Waterfall Chart
I had a user ask if I would do a blog on how to create a Waterfall Chart. These are also known as Bridge Charts because they look like a...
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- Sep 7, 2022
- 3 min
How to Create a Dendrogram Chart
In the blog below, I review the steps created by Data Viz Canvas to develop a Dendogram Chart in this youtube video here; except, I will...
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- Sep 1, 2022
- 2 min
Cannot Mix Aggregate and Non-Aggregate Functions
Have you ever received the error in Tableau? This can be kind of frustrating if you need to normalize any of your values for a...
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- Aug 16, 2022
- 2 min
What is Clustering in Tableau?
Do you have data that you would like to group together by similar data points? Perhaps when you analyze the data you can't quickly...
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- Aug 3, 2022
- 2 min
How to Create a Parameter Column Swap
Do you have different metrics that you want your user to be able to flip to for the same view? Perhaps you have a Bar Chart and you want...
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- Jul 27, 2022
- 2 min
How to Remove the Blue Box for KPI's
Do you have a KPI's listed predominately on your dashboard? Have you noticed when you click on one of them, you get a blue box as shown...
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- Jul 11, 2022
- 3 min
How to Create a Drill-Down Map
If you are new to Tableau you may be aware of Hierarchies and drill-down options with them. In a previous blog post, I listed steps on...
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- Jul 5, 2022
- 3 min
Automatic Highlighting Reference Lines
Do you have KPI's on your dashboard? Would you like to draw attention to low performing KPI's? What if you wanted to highlight low...
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- Jun 28, 2022
- 2 min
What is a LOD expression?
Have you heard of Level of Detail Expressions for Tableau? Why would someone want to use this type of calculation? There are several...
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- Jun 22, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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- Jun 16, 2022
- 1 min
IF ElSEIF Statement Tip
This tip was suggested by a friend of mine Will Perkins. Thanks Will! Have you ever written an IF ELSEIF statement for criteria between...
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- Jun 13, 2022
- 1 min
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...
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- Jun 1, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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- May 25, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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