How to create a Bar on Bar chart in Tableau | #WorkoutWednesday | 2019 | 20
How see top bottom and all others in a single view in Tableau
Category Archives: Tableau
How to make your population pyramids POP! in Tableau
This past week, I was working with client and they were literally describing a population pyramid. So, being the inquisitive and observant guy that I am, I said, “It sounds like you want a population pyramid” To which they replied, “well, every time we have this discussion we tend to steer away from the pyramids
How to paginate data in Tableau | #WorkoutWednesday | 2019 | 09
It’s always fun to bend Tableau into doing things it’s not really intended to do. One of the things that makes Tableau different then other more traditional reporting tools is it doesn’t natively support pagination of data. I say natively because as we’re about find out, there are ways of doing creating a “pages” user
#WorkoutWednesday | 2019 | 3
As #WorkoutWednesday has grown over the years it has been fun to see new people get involved and one of those new people is no stranger to the Tableau community. Lorna Eden is a Tableau Ambassador and starting in 2019 is a regular challenge master for #WorkoutWednesday and week 3 is her first challenge. Let’s
America’s Aging Population – WoW Edition
How do you set up and work with table calculations in Tableau? Read this blog for some tips and tricks with working with table calculations.
How to create a cross highlight action in Tableau
Another #WorkoutWednesday challenge and Rody’s back. One of the reason’s I really like #WorkoutWednesday is the authors do a great of creating challenges to: Challenge you to grow your technical skills Explore new or lesser known functionalities of the Tableau This week is no exception as Rody is challenging us, piggy-backing off of last week’s
How to color between two lines in Tableau
This week for #MakeoverMonday, Andy gave us some Census data to play with and this infographic to make over What works well Good title and subtitle Nice appealing colors Line colors are Labeled clearly I like the point values on the ends only What could be improved I’m not loving the bottom side-by-side chart. I
How to use Set Actions in Tableau for drill down
So here we are! 2018.3 is here and with it, along with many new AWESOME features are set actions! And boy, are they gonna change the game. [I realize that we say that with nearly every release but seriously, set actions are gonna be big] 2018.3 was released Monday night and wouldn’t you know it,
Tableau Conference recap
Wow! Just WOW! Another TC has come and gone and with it, another week of inspiration, injection and good ‘ole fashioned gumption It’s pretty difficult to come away from TC without having new tips and tricks in your Tableau arsenal or without a few new ideas of how to solve that pesky calculated field that’s
Bring the Heat
Scenario: Your chilling at home one evening scrolling through Twitter when you read an interesting tweet. Something about that tweet piques your interest and if you’re a #dataviz person like me, your first thought is “how can I visualize this?” then you might ask yourself “does data exist?” or “how hard would it be to