A waterfall chart is visualization that helps illustrate the cumulative effect of multiple data elements. The waterfall chart isn’t my favorite visual, but I've softened to it lately. It's hard to not like a chart that is sometimes called the Mario chart due to the suspension of...
Nobody blogs about failure, right? In meetings and during training sessions I often talk about both failure and success. Specifically, I often mention my definition of dashboard failure which is if the user asks: "Can I download this data into Excel?" This will, of course, happen but your...
From time to time, clients create proof-of-concept dashboards in Excel or other relational data source and then hit a wall converting it to an OLAP cube. I’m never surprised to see it happen. What most people don’t realize is that Tableau behaves much differently when...
This is the second post on Table Calculations in Tableau. The first post covered the Groundwork, pill types, a worksheet layout, and the basics of the TOTAL() function. This post will look at what I consider the functions: INDEX(), FIRST(), LAST(), and SIZE(), partitioning vs....
Custom Table Calculations is one of the most advanced concepts in Tableau. The main resources Tableau provides can be found at On-Demand Training - Table Calculations (requires sign in) and Top 10 Tableau Table Calculations where you can find a variety of examples and a white paper with additional details....
It's always interesting to see where government is spending so here's some data on a platter...
I'm not a great fan of infographics, they don't assist the viewer in understanding the core story being told, so here's my alternative version of a Guardian produced infographic. See below for the original: Although pretty and colourful does it make it easy to understand the...
At the recent Tableau Customer Conference (more on this later) one of the many excellent sessions I sat in on was Tips and Tricks From The Wild. Last up was the Tableau jedi, Joe Mako (@joemako or on Google+). Within the Tableau community Joe is famed...
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This weekend saw the Croydon Cyclone disc golf tournament. It was the biggest UK tour event for a long time, and the Croydon club created a tough course. Here's the analysis of each hole's results. As you can see, it was a tough event. Click...
Over on the forum, Jeremy asked about making trellis charts. For more info on trellis/panel charts, John Peltier has a great article about them. Consider a case where you want to visualise two measures (eg sales and time) for a Dimension with many members, such...
Tableau's sample files wouldn't look so good if they weren't well designed Alistair Knock posted a great question by Moose Peterson on Google+ about feedback on user photographs on the web:why do most people just make anodyne comments along the lines of “Nice!” when they probably...
BBC Sport have just published their Price of Football survey where they looked at the cost of tickets, programmes and old-school refreshments. The following visualisation compares the BBC headline cost 'Cheapest Day Out' (the total cost of the cheapest ticket, a programme, a pie and a cup of...
Back in November, JISC InfoNet published the results of its survey of BI solutions in Higher- and Further- education. A snaphot is below. Being someone who is passionate about good quality visualisations, I rattled off a couple of less than complimentary tweets about this. Here's...
I have a new job, starting in late September. It's with a technology startup you may just have heard of. Yes, I am moving to Tableau. I'm very excited and in many ways it's the least surprising job move ever. I've been amazed by the product since...
The power of social networking has struck again. Next are seeking their next Top Model. Computer Science graduate Roland Bunce is the runaway favourite so far. I took the data of the top five entrants and created this viz to emphasize how big a lead...
Jerome Cukier has put together a great viz for the current Tableau vizualisation contest. Here it is, with my thoughts below (his original blog post and commentary are here): ...
Three years ago I had a debate with someone about why they didn't cycle to work in Oxford. "Because it's too wet," was their main excuse. Being a keen cyclist, I knew that it didn't really rain that much, and even on days it rained,...
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