Who doesn’t love efficiency? We are finishing up with the rendering category today by returning to custom shapes. Let’s get started: "If using custom shapes, use transparent background PNGs instead of JPGs. Views will render cleaner, and shape files will take up less space." Didn’t know we’d get...
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...
Pitchfork, one of the most well-known online music review sites, just released their "Top 50 Albums of the Year" list for 2015. They do a great job listing out each album, sharing some background info and a track from each album along the way. Still, this got me thinking: Why not take this...
Which web browser do you use? Do you use a different browser on your personal computer, cellphone or tablet? I spent a few minutes in Tableau this morning looking at the changes in browser market share over the past seven years. ...
About a week ago, I shared a blog post that demonstrated a new way to visualize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in Tableau. This week, using the same viz, I’ll show how to set up single-click hierarchy navigation. The Challenge Those of us familiar with Pivot Tables in...
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...
Fame and money can do extraordinary things to people. Some use their position for good while many others go in the opposite direction. If you want proof, look no further than the NFL. We love our professional athletes, especially those that play football, but it's no mystery that...
Tableau Drive is the roadmap for successfully taking a love of Tableau to a successful enterprise deployment. In part two of this series, we explored how the Tableau Drive methodology required IT and the business to forge a cooperative and collaborative partnership. In part three,...
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...
Tableau 9.2 has many great features, but one of my favorite is Mapbox integration. For years, we've been able to build maps in Tableau, but we've been limited to a default set of maps. Now, with Mapbox, you can build beautiful, exciting maps for your audience...
When historians look back on the 20th Century, it can be summed up best by four major milestones: The Allies win the war America puts a man on the moon The invention of the personal computer “Star Wars” All of these are truly remarkable feats, but I’ll...
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...
Let’s take a look at our next guideline from the Rendering category: "Minimize the file size of any images or custom shapes where possible. As a general rule of thumb, keep images under 50kb." Let’s get started, shall we? Images & Custom Shapes In regards to rendering, images and...
I recently found a data set that was perfect for testing out the new Data Interpreter in Tableau 9.2. While discussions about Syrian refugees were ramping up, I sought out data about the situation, which led me to the UNHCR page dedicated to this crisis....
At the beginning of my career with InterWorks, I knew only a fraction of what I do now about the Tableau Desktop tool. One of my very first posts mentioned the new Mac connector in 8.2. Upon the release of Tableau 9.2, I’m back to...
In the previous article on Tableau Drive, we explored the necessary partnership between the leadership of the business and IT that must be forged to successfully implement the Tableau Drive methodology. We briefly visited the role of each group in this partnership. Today, we’ll more...
I love that old song, mostly because it drives my teenagers crazy when I sing it out loud (and loudly) whenever we are out and about. Protip: Teenagers will do almost anything to avoid being embarrassed. I’ve had my car washed, my kitchen mopped and...
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...
It's finally here. I'm not talking about Thanksgiving, I'm talking about the single greatest weekend of college football in the state of Oklahoma: Bedlam. The contest pits the state's two largest universities, Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma, against each other on the...
A common question that often comes up in trainings is: “How do I utilize the Pivot feature in Tableau to make building charts easier?” What does it mean to pivot data? A pivot is a transformation of data structure from a wide view (many columns) to a...
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