All tagged Tableau Design

How to Increase Filter Display Font Size in Tableau

Eric Parker
Layout Containers

Do you want to increase the display font size of a dropdown filter in Tableau? You'd think it would be as easy as increasing the font size in the formatting window, but it isn't. Increasing the font size in the formatting window only increase the title font or the font size of a list, but not the font size of a current selection in the dropdown.

If you want to learn a workaround which allows you to customize the display font size (and also customize what text display when multiple or all values are selected), check out this video!

How to Build Beautiful Dashboards in Tableau

Ollie Linley
Design, Tableau Dashboards

The visual look and feel of our dashboards make a huge impact to our end-users, and can increase the adoption rate of dashboards, particularly by non-technical users. We can't under-estimate the "wow-factor" of a good-looking dashboard!

But how do you begin to build a good looking dashboard when you're sitting with one that looks like an out-of-the-box Tableau dashboard? The answer is to craft your own design style using best practices and inspiration from others.

How to Build Hierarchies in Tableau

Ollie Linley
Design

Hierarchies are a simple Tableau tool that allows us to drill through dimension levels, from least specific to most specific. Hierarchies typically work best when our dimensional data is organized in levels, like location (State, City, Address), or person (Office, Department, Team, Individual).

However, hierarchies can be limited. The interface to find the drill-down button is not obvious to our end-users, and drilling down from level 1 to level 4 can be cumbersome. In this video, we'll not only look at how to build and use hierarchies, but work through one or two tips on how to create optimized functionality for some selective features of hierarchies, giving you a better overall end-user experience.

How to Add Input Filters in Tableau Prep (Improve Performance!)

Eric Parker
Tableau Text Tables, Tableau Totals, Level of Detail

One of the biggest gripes about Tableau Prep is that it isn't as fast as people want. However, most people aren't leveraging the best way to improve performance; input filters!

Input filters allow you to filter the data at input ensuring that unneeded data is never loaded into and processed in Tableau Prep. This can lead to massive performance benefits.

Ready to learn how to apply input filters and numerous ways they can be configured? Check out this video!

12 Tips for Amazing Tableau Bar Charts

Ollie Linley
Design, Tableau How-Tos

Do you feel stuck when working with bar charts? How do you take them from the standard (although a bit boring) chart we all know to something powerful, engaging, and compelling?

We've put together a free webinar on our 12 top tips to taking your bar charts to the next level.

We looked at things like:

•Color-changing labels

•Multi-axis bar charts

•Multiple labels on a bar

•Drilldowns

How to Make a Pop-Up Warning Message in Tableau

Eric Parker
Layout Containers, Tableau Dashboards, Tableau General Knowledge

Do you want a warning message to pop up in Tableau when there is no data or a user makes an invalid selection? Look no further, we've got the solution for you!

We've worked with numerous clients to help them apply their own version of this method to their dashboards. Ultimately, it comes down to creating a warning message sheet, putting it in a vertical layout container with the worksheet it will replace when activated, and applying some logic and customizations to the warning sheet so it only shows up when you want it to.

Ready to add dashboard warning messages to your Tableau toolkit? Check out this video!

Build Custom Parameter Selection Buttons in Tableau

Ollie Linley
Design, Tableau Dashboards, Tableau Parameters

If you're looking to turn your static Tableau dashboards into interactive powerhouses, buttons are a fantastic way to do that! In today's tutorial, we're diving into one of Tableau's most underutilised secrets: using buttons to control parameters. This isn't just about making dashboards look sleek (though they absolutely will), it's about creating an experience so intuitive that your users will actually want to explore your data.

Stacked Bar Chart With Multiple Label Colors in Tableau

Ollie Linley
Design

Have you ever tried to manually change the label color for different segments of your stacked bar chart? It's really tricky! While Tableau has a default color which can be white, black, or white and black alternating, you can't dictate how that should be attributed, and it can't be edited individually.

Here's a fun workaround that lets you control every aspect of the labels in your stacked bar chart from color to size to anything else! We’ll use a dual axis chart (a Tableau workaround hero!), and a reversed axis.

What is the Purpose of Data Analysis?

Eric Parker
Thought Leadership, Tableau Dashboards, Design

Do you ever find yourself working on a data-related project and wonder "What are we doing here?". While data-related endeavors can drive massive values, many of them are fairly directionless. Maybe there's a top-down mandate to "become more data-driven" without much thought about what that actually means.

We believe that the highest purpose of data analysis is to support informed experimentation. Creating dashboards with facts and figures is helpful, but it's really only the first step in the process.

Ready to learn about those additional steps and how you can drive value in your organization? Check out this video on the purpose of data analysis!

How to Whiteboard in Tableau (Whiteboarding Workbook)

Eric Parker
Design, Tableau Dashboards

One of the most important steps to developing a successful Tableau project is the ideation and whiteboarding phase. In the modern world, we often don't get to do that whiteboarding in person. That poses a real change. Whiteboarding in person is instantaneous. It's easy to erase one idea and sketch another. That becomes a lot more challenging in a remote, online environment.

Even the best online sketching tools are a bit clunky, not to mention it's hard to sketch well on a computer screen with a freehand or stylus.

Build a Custom Color Palette for Tableau

Ollie Linley
Design

Have you ever needed to use your own colors in Tableau? Maybe you need to use your company’s colors, or a brand’s colors, but you’re not sure how to save those colors into Tableau for repeated use.

You absolutely can add your own custom color palettes to Tableau. You’ll need to add some crucial code to the preferences file to do it!

Build a Homepage for Your Tableau Dashboards

Ollie Linley
Design, Tableau Dashboards

Navigating around the dashboards you’ve built can be difficult. How do you build a good homepage? How can you easily toggle from one dashboard to the next without it feeling clunky? Is it even possible for Tableau dashboards to feel easy to navigate?

In today’s video, we answer all those questions. We’ll build a great homepage that allows you navigate to all your dashboards, using icons and buttons. We’ll create dropdown, hamburger menus and a home button to help your users navigate to other dashboards, or go straight back to the homepage.

These skills can make your dashboards feel slick, professional, and user-friendly!

Exploring International Birth Rate Data in Tableau

Eric Parker
Design, Tableau How-Tos

How do you approach a new data set in Tableau? Do you spend a while studying the fields and data types? Or do you Google what other people have built using similar data? Maybe you like jumping straight into building to see how things shake out?

I lean toward the latter. Building visuals allows you to learn the data quickly, develop insights, and expose data issues (let's be honest, there are almost always wrinkles to work out of the data).

Data Dashboard Design Best Practices

Eric Parker
Data, Design, Tableau Dashboards

Effective data dashboard design is an art. It requires meticulous attention to detail. It includes visualizing the right data, displaying the appropriate level of granularity, designing an efficient layout, and making a number of minute design decisions so the data hits your user "just right".

If you're looking for a checklist of design elements to review before your next dashboard rollout, you've came to the right place! In this video, we discuss the following 15 design best practices:

Advanced Tableau Donut Charts | Dynamic Colors, Swap Fields

Ollie Linley
Tableau General Knowledge

A few weeks ago, we took a look at how to build donut charts in Tableau. Building a donut chart is similar to building many other views in Tableau. It’s simple to set up, but how do you get it looking really great?

This question comes up in my classes. Often, it’s the way we format our charts that has the biggest impact on our end users. So, while this week’s video pertains to donut charts, I hope that it holds some tips and tricks for adding layers of interest into our other views and charts too!

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