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Do you need a list of the Tableau Calculations for your clients?
With your development, sometimes your clients want to verify if the calculations you are using are correct for their needs. Wouldn't it...
Oct 62 min read
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What are the Highest, Lowest and Median Products?
What if you want to know what the highest priced product is as well as the lowest? You may not be aware but you can use the FIRST and...
Aug 293 min read
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How to Build a Variance Bar Chart
How do you display this month's Sales have not surpassed last month's Sales? In a past blog post here I talk about using a Reference...
Jun 183 min read
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How Do You Compare?
Have you ever encountered a data set where you have to compare a person's score with an average score? What kind of visualization would...
May 292 min read
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You Don't Know, What You Don't Know
Are you struggling to master Tableau? You are not alone. Many self-taught users miss out on powerful features that can elevate their...
May 144 min read
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What Charts Can You Create With Measure Names / Measure Values?
What is Tableau's Measure Names / Measure Values fields? If you are a beginner user, you may have noticed this field in your data pane....
Apr 91 min read
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Burndown Budget Calculator
What is a burndown chart? This type of chart is typically used in Agile project management. It helps to count down the budget so the last...
Mar 314 min read
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KPI Series: Reference Line Highlighting Trick
In last week's blog post I discussed using Parameters for highlighting the background and text. This week I want to talk about another...
Mar 172 min read
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KPI Series: Automatic Highlight Background and Text Swap
In last week's blog Use KPI as a Filter! I reviewed several dashboards that allowed you to click on them to filter the rest of the...
Mar 93 min read
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How to Have a Difficult Conversation with your Client
Is your client asking for something in a Tableau dashboard that doesn't make sense? Agreeing with them might seem easiest, but it's not...
Feb 173 min read
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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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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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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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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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Let's Talk About Dates Baby!
In my live demo this week called Dawn's Design Demos, I will review how to create a Date Picker (or selector) for a dashboard. The...
Jun 30, 20243 min read
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The Cost of NOT Educating Your Employees Or Yourself (On SQL)
Not only can you connect to an Excel sheet in Tableau but you can connect to different databases. This of course means you need to have...
Jun 6, 20242 min read
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How to Create Ghost Bar Charts!
There are so many ways you can enhance a bar chart. If you haven't had a chance to, you should favorite this dashboard called Bar Chart...
May 19, 20242 min read
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