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 …
Being creative in any way usually comes with the equivalent of a writes block at some point. You don’t know what to create next, what to write about, what new thing you could try. In the world of Data Visualisation there is always a next data set but after 100 …
Over time I collected a whole bunch of useful links related to data visualisation in general and Tableau in particular. For the official Tableau Desktop 1 and Desktop 2 courses I created a collection of these links to hand out after the course for further readings, more detailed explanation and to see …
Ever since one of my contacts at Tableau mentioned Project Maestro, I was keen to get my hands on it to see how data transformation can – hopefully – seamlessly be integrated with data visualisation. Now, since the first beta versions have been released I wanted to write down my …
In this series I will take apart some of the dashboards that I have created and the focus will be on the design choices I made, beyond choosing the right chart type. I think, being able to justify choices like colour, positioning and labeling is a good practise to end up …
In this series I will take apart some of the dashboards that I have created and the focus will be on the design choices I made, beyond choosing the right chart type. I think, being able to justify choices like colour, positioning and labeling is a good practise to end up …
In this series I will take apart some of the dashboards that I have created and the focus will be on the design choices I made, beyond choosing the right chart type. I think, being able to justify choices like colour, positioning and labeling is a good practise to end up …
I don’t consider myself a designer, not even particularly good at designing anything, really. However when developing dashboards or preparing presentations of any kind, I have to make design choices at every step. What helps me a lot is how I approach those choices and the decisions that I take. …
