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Jul 12, 20243 min read
Level Up Your Gantt Chart
A Gantt chart is a great way to show processes over time and are typically used for Project management. Here is the help tableau site's...
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Jun 30, 20243 min read
Let's Talk About Dates Baby!
In my live demo this week called Dawn's Design Demos, I will review how to create a Date Picker (or selector) for a dashboard. The...
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Jun 18, 20242 min read
The Lindsey Poulter Method and Other Tableau Tips
If you watched the exciting Iron Viz competition at TC24 this year, you may have heard of the "Lindsey Poulter Method." Who is Lindsey...
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Jun 11, 20242 min read
When Would You Use a Dot Strip Plot?
Both Scatter plots and Dot Strip plots display insights in your data, but when would you use a Dot Strip plot over a Scatter plot? What...
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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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