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Questions from Tableau Training: Isolating Rank with Parameters and Calculations

Rachel Kurtz

November 8, 2018

"I have sales information about all 50 states, but I only want to see a single state and how it ranks. Sounds like a table calculation, but there’s a catch. Table calculations in Tableau only compute the calculation on data that is in your view....

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Questions from Tableau Training: Moving Column Headers to the Top of the View

Ben Young

October 15, 2018

“Tableau is an Excel complement, not an Excel replacement.” Whenever I teach a training class, I make this point multiple times throughout the course. Each tool has its own set of specialties and comparative advantages that should govern usage. Or, put more simply, there are situations...

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Questions from Tableau Training: Conditional Coloring on Sparklines

Brenden Goetz

October 4, 2018

In the Tableau Desktop III: Advanced course, we teach you how to build sparklines, with the added bonus of using a dual axis to create a circle for the last sales value. This circle highlights that final point on the line, making it slightly easier...

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Questions from Tableau Training: Using Cross Joins to Solve Active Tickets

Carl Slifer

August 23, 2017

This is one of the many questions I get asked as a Tableau Trainer. It may seem straight forward enough, but it isn’t! “Is there a way to work out how many active customers we have at any given time?”  Prepping the Data Most clients have data that...

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Questions from Tableau Training: Dynamic Label Positioning

Robert Curtis

June 21, 2017

From a Desktop II Intermediate class in Melbourne, Priyanka asked me the following question: "In my chart, I want to show forecast and actual as a bullet graph. I’d like to label both values at the end of the chart, whether that’s the bar that’s exceeded...

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Frequently Asked Questions from Tableau Training: Vol. 1

Katie Wagner

January 8, 2015

Chances are, several people have the same questions about Tableau as you do. The Questions from Tableau Training series spotlights these questions and provides answers. Questions are pulled straight from InterWorks' Tableau training classes. You can check out the full list of posts on the...

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Questions from Tableau Training: Dashboard Actions

Dustin Wyers

June 23, 2014

Continuing the series, a question came up concerning Tableau actions in my latest class. The user wanted to have a complete understanding of what happens when they add a filter action and how to know if the action was applied correctly. This blog post is...