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I was working on a project recently and wanted an image in the dashboard to switch based on user selection. I remembered a colleague doing this six years ago and for the life of me couldn’t figure out how until checking out this section of the Tableau community forum.
In version Tableau Desktop 2020.1, Tableau addressed what has been the number one feature request for at least 6 years (as long as I’ve been using Tableau), dynamic parameters!
If you’ve been reading the blog for a while, you know we’ve covered a number of date calculations including Year to Date vs. Previous Year to Date. 2020 brings a special challenge to calculations like this because it’s a leap year.
Tableau makes creating forecasts easy. It’s as simple as right-clicking in the background of a line graph and selecting “Show Forecast”. However, you’ll notice that after making that selection, the line for the historic data and the line for the forecasted data are disconnected.
There are three distinct methods for creating groups in Tableau. The differences and features of the differences aren’t well understood. We’ll take the time to review those three methods throughout this post. Those three methods are; header grouping, visual grouping and geographic grouping.
Bar charts are widely recognized as one of the best visualizations for communicating data. They help to rank, sort and compare values easily. Sometimes, situations arise in which you’d like to see a bar charts broken down so that each row of data is a single square that contributes toward a total bar.
Hiding data in a Tableau worksheet is usually as simple as right-clicking on a label and selecting hide.
Working with milliseconds in Tableau is tricky. While Tableau does technically handle milliseconds, they aren’t as flexible as other date units like days and hours.
Imagine you are working in Tableau and want to create a worksheet that compares performance this quarter to date to performance last quarter to date. Depending on the visuals you’d like to create, you’ll likely need to create a calculated field for this to work properly.
I’ve seen several examples of people turning their resumes into Tableau dashboards recently and I wanted to try my hand at it and write a blog post about the process.
Imagine you are working with a data set in Tableau that displays minutes and seconds in decimals. For instance, 1.5 would be reflective of 1 minute and 30 seconds…
Imagine you work for a company that sells products but not in every market. Because you don’t sell certain products in given markets, you have null values in your data.
In June, 2018 I wrote a blog post about three things Tableau Prep couldn’t do. One of those was the ability to transpose (unpivot) data. That is no longer the case.
Working with data that isn’t clean can be a pain. One of the most frequent data issues I come across is dealing with duplicated rows of data.
Imagine you have a dashboard that looks almost exactly the way you want. The data looks great, the visuals are just right, but the colors are a little off…