One of my quarantine activities has been freeing up space on my computer. In the process, I found a video I meant to post to the blog that I made a year ago! Thankfully, it is still as relevant as ever. Check out the video to learn how you can encode different sort options in a drop-down for your end users to select from.
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I miss baseball. I’m a hopeless Mariners fan. I was blessed/cursed to grow up in the 1990s and early 2000s when the Mariners were putting together exciting teams with players like Ken Griffey Jr., Randy Johnson, Alex Rodriguez and Edgar Martinez.
The world is changing around us and it is changing quickly. In my lifetime I can only remember two events which had anywhere near the same level of impact as the current COVID-19 Crisis; 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis.
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!
Setting permissions appropriately in Tableau dashboards is key to maintaining data reporting integrity.
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.
Highlight actions provide a powerful way to tie together related information in Tableau dashboards.
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.
I recently got a question from a student. To paraphrase it read, “I work for a company of 200 people. We recently purchased Tableau and are trying to figure out the best way to deploy it throughout our organization…
After creating a parameter that lets you swap worksheets in a Tableau dashboard, one of the problems is that when a worksheet goes blank (because it is swapped away from), the color legends associated with that worksheet also temporarily go blank.
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.
In teaching Tableau, I came across a visual I think is really fun and interesting.
When you are working with survey data, you will occasionally come across situations where survey questions were multiple choice and those multiple choices responses are comma-delimited in a single cell.