What are RAG Ratings for a Project Management Dashboard?
In product management there is something called RAG status which means, is the status of a Project Red, Amber, or Green? Is the project...
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Mar 31 min read
TRUE = FALSE? Highlighting Trick!
A couple of weeks ago, I talked about using a Dummy calculated field to remove a highlight. There is another method that works as well....
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Feb 253 min read
How Can I Visually Call Out a Dimension on My Dashboard?
Let's say you have a dashboard of Employees on a team. You want to create a visualization that encourages your users to interact with the...
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Feb 181 min read
Removing the Blue Highlight in a KPI Worksheet
In a previous blog post here. I discussed several ways of removing a blue highlight when you have a Text KPI worksheet. In the second...
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Feb 42 min read
Two Use Cases for Set Actions in a Tooltip
Sometimes we may have questions about a subset of data in our dashboard view. Sets Actions enable your audience to interact with a view...
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Jan 291 min read
Tiny Tableau Tips
By Dawn Harrington Did you know that you can find some quick Tableau tips without having to read a whole blog? I just learned about this...
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Jan 232 min read
Featured Items From Past Tableau Releases
Has it been a while since you experienced a Tableau upgrade? Here are some features of note for the past couple of releases. Create...
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Jan 162 min read
How to Create a Gradient Bar Chart
If you are new to Tableau I strongly recommend that you favorite or bookmark the Bar Chart menu dashboard by Robert Rouse here. It...
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Jan 76 min read
Creating a Hogwarts Drill-Down Organizational Hierarchy
Can you create an organizational hierarchy in Tableau that you can drill down and drill up? You can, but you have to set up your data in...
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Jan 12 min read
New Year New You Viz Challenge!
We've all had New Year resolutions that we have made, and then maybe dropped in past years. Would anyone like to join me with making a...
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Dec 19, 20232 min read
Workout Wednesday Flexible Tabular Display
Are you a beginner user in Tableau? If you haven't heard of the Workout Wednesday website, I strongly urge you to check it out. You can...
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Dec 7, 20232 min read
How to Make Rounded Corners
By Dawn Harrington Have you ever wondered how to make rounded corners for your visualizations in Tableau without using Figma? I just...
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Nov 28, 20233 min read
The Text in a Table Problem
By Dawn Harrington Recently I had a user approach me with an interesting issue. How do you call out if a metric is improving in a text...
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Nov 15, 20231 min read
Add Text to the End of a Tableau URL
By Dawn Harrington Did you know that you can add additional text at the end of your Tableau URL link, and it can improve performance?...
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Nov 7, 20234 min read
Weighted Average by Guest Blogger Cathy Young!
I've been asked how do you do a weighted average in Tableau? The below article was created by Cathy Young and is a downloadable PDF in...
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Oct 25, 20232 min read
Before and After Dashboards
In the below blog, I review multiple tips and tricks on enhancing dashboards. I created a tableau public dashboard here that shows you a...
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Oct 10, 20232 min read
Tableau Totals Trick
Have you noticed when you are trying to create a summary table with three dimensions and you add Totals, it looks a little strange? See...
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Sep 26, 20231 min read
Reference Lines Too Wide? Use This Trick!
In a previous post here, I listed how you can create calculations to cover current month and previous month values. I also showed you how...
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Sep 19, 20232 min read
Take Bar and Line Charts from Boring to Exciting!
Bar and Line charts are popular and exist in most Tableau dashboards. Below I will review ways you can enhance each chart type. Bar...
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Aug 31, 20232 min read
Separate Reference Lines for Each Pane
In an internal Tableau class I was teaching earlier this week, I reviewed how to create a Reference line using a Target or Sales Goal...
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