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What Charts Can You Create With Measure Names / Measure Values?
What is Tableau's Measure Names / Measure Values fields? If you are a beginner user, you may have noticed this field in your data pane....
Apr 91 min read
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Burndown Budget Calculator
What is a burndown chart? This type of chart is typically used in Agile project management. It helps to count down the budget so the last...
Mar 314 min read
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KPI Series: Reference Line Highlighting Trick
In last week's blog post I discussed using Parameters for highlighting the background and text. This week I want to talk about another...
Mar 172 min read
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KPI Series: Automatic Highlight Background and Text Swap
In last week's blog Use KPI as a Filter! I reviewed several dashboards that allowed you to click on them to filter the rest of the...
Mar 93 min read
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Use KPI as a Filter!
If you are new to Tableau you may have seen KPI or BANs at the top of a dashboard. This is considered a best practice by Tableau's eye...
Mar 21 min read
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How to Have a Difficult Conversation with your Client
Is your client asking for something in a Tableau dashboard that doesn't make sense? Agreeing with them might seem easiest, but it's not...
Feb 173 min read
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How to Create Fancy Tables from a Guest Blogger!
The below blog is from Kate Crawford from the Information Lab. Her blog is located here ! Advanced Tables , or Fancy Tables as the...
Feb 62 min read
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Highlight Table Hack
Sometimes, Highlight Tables are confused with Heat Maps . A Heat Map is a table that uses colors across two axes. A Highlight Table ...
Jan 203 min read
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From a Line to a Spark!
What are sparkline charts? Sparkline charts are small line charts that are vertically stacked together instead of combining them all on...
Jan 62 min read
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What is the Best Way to Show a Price Increase in a Dashboard?
How do you take your data beyond a table view and why would you do so? I came across the below image online and this is a very common...
Dec 24, 20243 min read
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What Charts are Best for Human Eyes?
Did you know some charts are better for human perception than others? There have been several studies on graphical perception or how we...
Dec 11, 20242 min read
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Custom Legend Buttons
If you are a beginner user to Tableau, you may be aware of the automatic legend that appears when you apply a Measure to a worksheet....
Dec 5, 20242 min read
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Now You See it, Now You Don't
In past blog posts I talked about the importance of blank shapes. In this blog article I review a couple of use cases for them! Holiday...
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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Be Kind to Your Future Self
Have you ever looked at a dashboard or workflow that you haven't touched in six months and you are like, "What was I thinking?" Perhaps...
Nov 4, 20242 min read
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