In the Tableau world, donut charts sometimes get a bad reputation just like pie charts. The reason basically boils down to humans being less adept at comparing angles of a circle than length or a line or bar. That said, I have a soft spot (pun intended) for donut(s) (charts).
Imagine you are looking at a Tableau visual and want to to view the data translated into your local time zone. Transactions take place all over the country in different time zones but you’d like to see them all in local Pacific Time (for instance).
Level of Detail Expressions are one of the most powerful and least understood features in Tableau's calculation toolkit. Watch the below webinar recording to learn how they can be used to get more out of your Tableau workbooks.
I’ve been working with a healthcare system that wants to do a better job of understanding patient behavior. Better understanding will drive decisions around staffing, purchasing, shift breaks, essentially the entire way the system is managed.
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.
Want to quickly learn all the main topics you need to know about Tableau Parameters? Check out the webinar recording above!
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.