As a Tableau dashboard designer, I’m trying to always keep in mind that the end user of my products might not be familiar with Tableau. One of the things that makes Tableau different than other tools is its interactivity.
One of Tableau’s greatest strengths is the ability to easily and intuitively visualize historic information. When that data is broken out by date, Tableau can display the data broken out by “Date Part” or “Date Value”. This terminology and concept is unique to Tableau and provides the designer with a lot of flexibility.
Depends who you ask! According to US News the top national university in 2020 is Princeton. That’s a bit simplistic though. What if you want to be an aeronautical engineer, filmographer or social worker? What if you want to stay close to home or are on a tight budget? Is Princeton the “best university” in that case?
If you've ever wondered, "Are we measuring the right data?", check out our webinar recording as we discuss how to ensure you are measuring the right things and how you can initiate an open discussion on the topic in your workplace.
My computer was getting bogged down recently. My 3.5 year old Microsoft Surface Pro was down to 8 GB left in the 237 GB harddrive.
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.