Scenario: You’ve just purchased a new laptop with an amazing high resolution display. Woo hoo! However, when you start up Tableau, something looks a bit fishy: Figure 1: Hmmmm … This seems to compound when you open a dashboard: Figure 2: YIKES!! When opening Dashboards, Tableau is scaling the...
In this brief video, I walk through the four steps to creating a parameter in Tableau: Create the parameter control Show the parameter control Use the parameter in a calculated field Use the calculated field in the view Follow along in the video to see how easy it is!...
Have you ever wanted your scatter plots or quadrant analysis charts to be centered instead of skewed to one side of the axis? Perhaps you’ve even found yourself wanting to keep the axis centered as you interact with quick filters or dashboard actions. Well, you’re...
Here’s a question I got from Quoc about how to work with the structure of the data source he was receiving: “How can I transform my crosstab into a flat list?" He wanted to take a table that looks like this: And make it into a flat list...
In the first post of this series, we reviewed how you can calculate compound annual growth rates in Tableau. This week, we’ll look at time series data using Bollinger Bands. A technical stock analyst named John Bollinger developed the technique and trademarked the name. Bollinger bands simply...
This article is updated with the new icons from Tableau 10 and expanded for additional file types. Previous article for Tableau 9 here. Acronyms, acronyms, acronyms – They dominate the internet, social media, everything. IMHO, probably too much. And, yes, Tableau is no different. It’s all...
Here's a question I often get in my Tableau training classes: "How do I create friendly text hyperlinks on a dashboard that open to an external webpage?” You may know how to bring a text object onto a Tableau dashboard, but what if you want your users...
Often times during training, students approach me with a pretty understandable issue. "I already build this report. How can I use my current output to build a visualization in Tableau?" My initial response is: “Let’s see if we can access the original data. Using the transactional database will...
Sometimes, I feel like I’m cheating the system when I find a neat way to use something that Tableau has to offer. Other times, I feel like a genius for doing an end run around them. Is that bad? Well, either way, I’m here to...
Every decade, I spend a few weeks planning the next 10 years. This thinking normally encompasses career and investment goals. This time, I decided to expand my time horizon. I’m 57 years old, so I wanted to start thinking about what my personal financial situation looks...
One of my favorite viz types in the history of the whole wide world of Tableau is the bullet chart. I’m not sure I’ve ever produced a workbook that didn’t make use of this awesome “progress to goal” option because it’s simple, easy-to-understand and visually...
Do you ever want to: Add text directly to your chart that is not a label, header or title? Label only specific points, ensure mark labels do not overlap or have different mark labels provide different information? Guide your user on how to interpret your visualization with commentary,...
When building our dashboards, one of the best ways for us to visualize positive and negative values is through the use of shapes and colors. But what if our data doesn't have both positive and negative values? And what if we’d also like to ensure...
article.post img { max-width: 760px; } Sometimes Tableau puts mark labels exactly where we want ‘em… But sometimes the default positioning of mark labels leaves class participants asking: “Can I pick where my mark labels go?” The answer is yes! You have two options for adjusting positioning for your mark...
I was working with a client recently, and they asked me a seemingly simple question: “How do you compare quarterly performance across a single time frame in Tableau?” They were looking for this: My first thought was that this is very straightforward – all you should need to...
Last Thursday, InterWorks Director of Strategic Innovation Dan Murray presented a webinar with Carahsoft on discovery and ad hoc analytics in Tableau. The webinar was targeted specifically to government organizations, but the topics covered can be applied to a wide variety of organizations. Specifically, the webinar details: The...
Today, I got a really interesting request to create a Venn diagram in Tableau that showed the overlap in customer segments. I had seen the 3 Way Venn done by Rob Austin here at InterWorks; however, I needed something that allowed me to select the intersections...
Here's another question I hear from time to time during Tableau training: “How do I make a URL action open inside of the dashboard rather than in a new window?” You may know how to make dashboard URL Actions in Tableau that link to various webpages based...
A few weeks ago, during one of the Tableau sessions we like to do between BI consultants at InterWorks, Dave showed a Tableau trick he used to make map visualisations in Tableau more dynamic and intuitive for the end user. The trick was a smart use of...
At the start of this Deep Dive series, I stated that there were four standard use cases for parameters: filters, bins, reference lines and calculated fields. What about other areas, such as table calculations? Why can’t we use parameters there? The answer is: You can! You just...
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