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Some of my favorite mobile apps like Slack, Feedly and Google Maps have a slide-out menu that appears when I tap a small icon. That common design element makes plenty of room for user inputs and gets them out of the way when you’re done...

Tableau Reader is a free-to-download tool that allows you to view packaged workbooks with full interactivity. It’s available for both PC and Mac users. Some organizations use Tableau Reader far more than they should while others might benefit by adding it to their options for...

Parameters are one of the most loved features of Tableau. You can use them in calculations, across multiple datasources, in titles and labels, and in countless other ways. Unfortunately, they are static. Unlike filters, parameters are a set list of values. You can build them based off...

Key Performance Indicators are one of the most common things people need to display in a dashboard. This usually involves comparing current values or historical trends against a target value. Tableau makes it easy to show current values and trends in one dashboard, but this...

A common question that often comes up in trainings is: “How can I add conditional formatting to my visualizations?” Conditional formatting can be a useful way to call attention to textual data. Common cases of conditional formatting involve using Color or Symbols (That’s symbols for all...

For a variety of reasons, businesses do not always tie their fiscal year to the standard calendar year. There are numerous explanations of why this might be beneficial to an organization, and they all seem to lead several of my clients to the exact same...

Many of us embed visualizations in our websites, and they likely look great on our own monitors, but what about on your boss’s giant, 28-inch iMac monitor? How do they look on a projector? How do they look on an iPad? In today’s world of varying...

A common question that often comes up in trainings is: “How do I run a 'difference between two dates' calculation only considering business days?” In order to focus on business days, we need to adjust our calculated field to define what a “Business Day” is. First, we need...

Today, I ran into a Tableau issue that I couldn't solve through googling. Using SAML and attempting to connect to Tableau Server from Tableau Desktop, I wasn't given the option to enter a username and password. Instead, I received this message containing "errorCode=16:" Here's What Happened I was...

Tableau does a great job of connecting to a variety of databases, but it sometimes needs help on the database end to get the results we need to make hot visualizations. One such example showed itself when connecting to Google BigQuery. The issue? Count distincts. BigQuery doesn't handle count distincts like one...

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