Because I have just that much free time, I thought I’d take a gander at my spending so far this year using Tableau. The holiday shopping season is coming up, and I wanted to know if I would have any money left to fill stockings...
To examine the side-by-side bar chart, let’s first take three rows of vertical bar charts. These represent sales volume by state and are divided into the three different departments of our fictional company. Figure 1: Vertical bar charts. That view is useful, true, but it has two...
Client requests are sometimes the best way to think outside of the box with Tableau. Sometimes you ask yourself “WHY?” and shake your head. Other times, the requests force you to come up with a creative new solution within Tableau that you’ve never come across...
The stacked bar chart is great for adding another level of detail inside of a horizontal bar chart. You can do this by adding another dimension to your horizontal bar chart that will further divide the measure into sub-groups. The sub-groups are then color-coded on...
The horizontal bar chart is a bit of a misnomer, because simply switching the axes with the Swap button in the Tableau toolbar will magically make a horizontal bar chart into a vertical bar chart! That’s actually not the crux of this chart – it is...
In my developer mind, what takes Tableau 8 from neat to amazing is the ability to manipulate, calculate and maneuver data quickly and easily. Calculated fields allow you to compare fields, apply aggregations, apply logic, concatenate strings, convert dates or perform a myriad of other analytical...
Pie charts are among the most popular, if terribly overused, charts in business presentations. They are best suited to show proportional or percentage relationships. When used in the right circumstance, pie charts can quickly show relative value to the other data points in the measure. Figure...
We’ve already covered the other type of map view in the symbol map article. Now, let’s look at the filled map chart type. The filled map is another view ideal for geographic data. Instead of circles or squares to display data points, the filled map uses...
I’ve seen it a dozen times in classes that I have taught. A student is digging Tableau (who doesn’t?) and all of the ways that it can present data. While working through the classroom examples, everything is going smoothly. Then, someone connects to their own...
In my first InterWorks blog post, I’ve decided to write about something that I commonly used in other BI platforms. The idea of passing parameters in Microsoft and IBM products is vastly used in reporting. A user can define their parameter before running the report....
One of the great features about Tableau Software is the ease in utilizing maps for your visualizations. There are two chart types to choose from when creating a view with geographic data: symbol maps and filled maps. In this article, we’ll cover symbol maps. These...
The improvements of the Visual Data Window in Tableau 8.2 gave a breath of fresh air to the Tableau community. So far, the new design has been intuitive and user friendly. However, when I went searching for the Custom SQL option when connecting to an...
Concluding the Tableau workspace in our Tableau Essentials series is the overlooked Status Bar. It runs along the bottom of the application, beneath the Data Window and the worksheet tabs. See it pictured below in Figure 1. Figure 1: The Status Bar. Summary Information The three pieces of...
Building a compelling visualization with Tableau is all about telling a “story.” Within your data, there is a story. That may sound strange to new Tableau users or to data analysts in general, but that’s the best way to describe what it means to “guide”...
When Tableau released Tableau 8.1, there was a lot of buzz surrounding R integration. Tableau 8.1 has come and gone, and Tableau released another great update with Tableau 8.2. However, I still find a lot of confusion and lack of online resources regarding the actual...
Connecting to a data source will likely be the very first thing you do in Tableau Desktop. Today, we will cover how to do just that, as well as some of the different options available to you. In the future, we’ll revisit this subject to...
Tableau uses filters, groups and sets to organize data. They were each created for a specific purpose, but differentiating between use cases can be difficult at times. The purpose of this post isn’t a step-by-step guide in creating them; rather, it is a quick guide...
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...
Last week, I had the good fortune to attend the Alteryx Inspire 2014 Conference in San Diego, and then spend an afternoon at Tableau Software. Best of all, I had the privilege to give a speech to an engaging and inquisitive crowd of Tableau fans...
With Tableau 8.2 now available, the InterWorks team wants to give you an in-depth look at some of our favorite new features. Our What’s New in Tableau 8.2 blog series covers these in detail. This post is the fifth post in the series. Check out...
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