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Jun 6, 20242 min read
The Cost of NOT Educating Your Employees Or Yourself (On SQL)
Not only can you connect to an Excel sheet in Tableau but you can connect to different databases. This of course means you need to have...
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May 30, 20243 min read
Highlighting the Selected Dot Plot or Bar Chart
Do you want a way to call out the metric a user selects in a dashboard? In my World Happiness Report 2023 Tableau dashboard here; I have...
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May 19, 20242 min read
How to Create Ghost Bar Charts!
There are so many ways you can enhance a bar chart. If you haven't had a chance to, you should favorite this dashboard called Bar Chart...
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Apr 26, 20242 min read
Formula to Automatically display T, B, M or K!
You may not be aware that you can change the way your numbers are displayed in Tableau on the Format pane under Display Units. This will...
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Apr 17, 20242 min read
Enhancing Your Line Chart
Do you have a regular line chart in your dashboard? Here are some methods to take it to the next level! If you want to watch a video...
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Apr 11, 20243 min read
Can You Still Expand/Collapse Views in a Container with Dynamic Zone Visibility?
I have been exploring this Dynamic Zone Visibility feature that Tableau released a while back. In a previous blog post here, I show you...
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Mar 28, 20242 min read
What Requirement Questions Should You Ask Your Clients?
Before you even start creating dashboards, you need to know what questions to ask your clients. This is considered gathering requirements...
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Mar 19, 20243 min read
How Do You Join Data Sets In Tableau?
Sometimes a data set doesn't have everything you need in it for a certain visualization. You will have to perform extra steps to get the...
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Mar 10, 20244 min read
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 3, 20241 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 25, 20243 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 18, 20241 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 4, 20242 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 29, 20241 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 23, 20242 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 16, 20242 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 7, 20246 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 1, 20242 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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