When you work in Data Visualisation, there is no way around bar and line charts! They are arguably the most fundamental and versatile graphs out there. They are so versatile that Tableau’s Andy Cotgreave formulated a law around them: The longer an innovative visualization exists, the probability someone says it …
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 …
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 …
