On a number of occasions, I’ve been asked if Tableau can use a top filter to show the top percent of a population. For instance, some varieties of that questions has been…
My wife and I recently purchased an older house. We are doing some remodeling ourselves and our first big project was removing the popcorn ceiling and replacing it with more modern looking texture. Multiple weeks later we are (maybe) half-finished with the project. My initial estimate is that the project would take us 3 days. How was I so off? How did I anticipate it might take 3-6 days of manpower (depending on number of people working) and it’s looking more likely to take 20+?
The new Tableau Relationships feature will likely replace joins in a lot of circumstances. I was recently asked, “What kind of join does the Tableau Relationships feature most closely resemble?” I didn’t know with certainty so I did some digging.
“Relationships” are a new and powerful way to connect tables of data in Tableau and are included in the release of Tableau Desktop 2020.2.
There are a number of scenarios where you may want to build a dashboard that anonymizes the names/personalized information of everyone except the active user.
Warning! Proceed at your own risk. Before I go any further I should say that this is going to be a wild post with a lot of moving parts. I think a donut chart with a reference line is a really fun and different visual, but it’s only going to work in select circumstances.
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!