The (not so) new parameter actions in Tableau introduced the possibility for much more interactivity and navigational elements. For this weeks #MakeoverMonday, a friend asked me if it was possible to select one item in an ordered bar chart and display the 10 items just above and below it dynamically. …
It’s no secret that Tableau Prep Builder and Tableau Desktop share many of the same features. Aggregations, Joins, Pivots, etc are all somehow possible in both tools, even though the purpose and outcome of those are somewhat different in each of them. Some useful tools in Tableau Desktop however didn’t …
Recently Tableau introduced Set Actions to Tableau Desktop. While they have a lot of analytical use, there is also a lot of fun to be had with them, so here’s a little game which wasn’t possible in earlier versions of Tableau. Set actions is the possibility to dynamically assign values …
I haven’t been to a Tableau Conference (yet) so for specific tips you might rather want to head over to Sarah’s blogs. I do attend all kinds of smaller events though and while the scale is different, the fundamentals of meeting people still apply! There are two main things to …
In the last couple of weeks I stumbled upon the same Tableau problem three times. Once it was my own problem, afterwards two other people mentioned similar problems. That seems reason enough to try to figure out a solution to it! Imagine the Tableau Superstore data set, you have one …
I recently analysed call data especially focusing on pattern throughout the week. After creating two heatmaps to plot hours of the day against weekday for number of calls and call length, I continued to create marginal histograms for further details. While trying to figure out smart ways to combine two …
Tableau Prep has quite a bit of overlap with Tableau and implements many of the features in a more visual way (joins, unions, etc). One feature which people initially might struggle to wrap their head around but is used all the time once they do is Tableau’s Level of Detail …
A few days around a collection of “Weird but (sometimes) useful charts” was passed through the Twitter community. While many of them have very defined use cases in science, and some of them are plainly ridiculous (I am looking at you Drunken Speedometer) a few might come in handy in some …
Especially for ad-hoc analysis it might be necessary to highlight only certain parts of the data. It is easy enough to call out certain sections with colour or annotations, however you might want to provide the ability to provide a little more information – just in case. With Tableau 10.5 …
