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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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Multi-Row Formula Tool - Calculating a Moving 12 Months
Do you need to calculate a total value for the last 12 months? If you have data from January - December, you can use the Summarize Tool...
Jan 13, 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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Find Replace Tool with Comic Book Characters
Do you have part of a phrase in a column and you just need to replace one word? What if you wanted to add another word in that same cell?...
Dec 10, 20212 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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Add a Hyperlink in Alteryx
Did you know you can add a hyperlink to your dataset in Alteryx? This tip was suggested by Nicolas Colombo. Thank you Nicolas! This...
Dec 2, 20212 min read
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Bingo Cards in Alteryx
Have you ever wondered how to generate Bingo cards? For an upcoming wedding there are various bingo activities such as meet the guest. ...
Nov 18, 20211 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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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
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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
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Form Controls in Word
Did you know that Microsoft Word has a variety of automatic form controls that you can insert in your document? What are these exactly? ...
Oct 29, 20212 min read
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Forgot to Annotate?
Do you have a workflow with a lot of different tools, say 100+? What if you forgot to document some of these tools for controls purposes?...
Oct 28, 20211 min read
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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
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