How to Create a Rounded Stacked Bar Chart with Percentages
Do you have a dashboard where you want to add a chart a little more interesting than a bar chart? I kept most of the instructions from...
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Creating an Nth Label
Have you ever tried to put labels on your line graph and you were not happy with the default options of All, Min/max, Line Ends,...
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Sep 14, 20213 min read
Advanced Tips You Didn't Know That You Should Know
This article lists a couple of Do's and Don'ts for beginner Tableau users. Remove Keep Only and Exclude in your Tooltips This option, in...
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Sep 9, 20212 min read
How to Switch a Background Image with a Selection
In this example I created this Tableau dashboard to mimic the different links for this website. If you hover over worksheet with the...
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Create a Custom Color Palette
Did you know you can create your own custom color palette to display in the Tableau Color Marks card? You will need to know the hex...
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3 Custom Shapes You Should have
One of the most important things to have in your Tableau Tool box are certain custom shapes. I use Icons8.com and flaticons.com for free...
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The Shape Problem
Have you ever wanted to show shapes to represent something such as initiatives or certain steps in a project? Would you want to combine...
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Create Date "Buttons"
Do your users want to filter your dashboard by the Days, Weeks, Months and Years? I like to create a set of buttons as shown below with...
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Jul 29, 20212 min read
A Bar Chart but with Shapes?
Have you ever wondered how to make a bar chart but with custom shapes? I documented the steps below from this youtube video by Toan...
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Jul 28, 20212 min read
Create a Drill-Down Proportional Bar Chart with Set Actions
Do you want to add a chart to your dashboard where you can click on it and drill into the next level of data? An example would be with...
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Jul 21, 20211 min read
What Chart Should I Use?
Have you ever wondered what chart is the best for your analysis? I get asked this question a lot from beginner users in Tableau. I found...
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How to Create a Line Jump Plot
Do you have a project with due dates? Did you know there is an interesting way to plot the days between these due dates? Jump Plots are...
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Explain Data Feature
Did you know that Tableau has an option to explain the data point in your Tableau Workbook? In my below workbook example containing data...
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Performance Recording
Is your Tableau dashboard slow? Did you know that Tableau has a feature called Performance recording that will help you identify where...
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Jun 29, 20212 min read
Label Only on Highlight
Did you know you can only show labels when a circle is highlighted in a scatterplot? Hiding labels makes your dashboard appear visually...
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Jun 22, 20211 min read
Color Banding
Do you want to have different color columns in your dashboard? Sometimes this helps to visually break up the space in your dashboard. ...
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Jun 15, 20211 min read
KPI Color Arrow Calculation
Did you know you can just have the KPI arrows their own color in your dashboard? KPI's look less visually distracting if you just limit...
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How to Create a Unit Chart
Have you ever wondered how to create a population chart with people icons representing a portion of the population? These types of...
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Email Actions
Do you have a dashboard that you want to add a link for users to email you if they have any questions? You can do this by adding an...
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Jun 1, 20211 min read
How to find Current Month to Date Data to the Prior Month with the Same Date
Have you ever wondered how to compare this month's data up to the current day of the month to the previous month's data to the same day? ...
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