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May 18, 20232 min read
What Visualizations Should You Use to Display Anomalies?
Do you have data that you want to visually display the outliers? From all of the charts out there, which visualization is best to...
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May 3, 20231 min read
How to Use Today's Date as a Default for a Date Parameter
Are you using a date parameter in your dashboard? Did you know there is a way to set today's date as the default? Date Parameter Creation...
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Apr 20, 20232 min read
What Should You Have in a Dashboard Header?
If you are new to Tableau development you may just enter a Title for your dashboard in the header. Did you know there are lots of other...
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Mar 30, 20232 min read
Year Over Year Visualizations
Are you unsure of ways to show data comparing the current year data to the prior year? If you are new to Tableau you may not know where...
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Mar 17, 20232 min read
How to Create a "Button" for a URL Action
Do you want to add a button to your dashboard for users to be directed to a specific webpage? Maybe you want to direct a user to a...
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Mar 2, 20233 min read
The Many Ways to Highlight in Tableau
Did you know there are multiple ways to highlight metrics in Tableau? If you are a beginner user in Tableau, you may not be aware of the...
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Feb 23, 20231 min read
*Edit Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Did you know there is a way to get rid of those pesky gridlines in your entire workbook all at once? You can also adjust the Fonts for...
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Feb 9, 20232 min read
Combined Sets
Did you know you can combine Sets in Tableau? These are also called Computed Sets. What exactly is a set? According to Tableau.com "Sets...
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Jan 22, 20232 min read
When to Use Stepped Colors
Stepped colors are a way you can reduce the number of colors in a visualization. In my opinion, your eye can only process so many colors...
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Jan 11, 20232 min read
Great Tableau Public Business Vizzes
I had a couple of users ask me about templates for business dashboards. I wanted to call out some great vizzes from Tableau Public....
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Dec 13, 20222 min read
Go to Sheet Action
In a previous blog article here, I reviewed how to use the Navigation Objects in Tableau. I also covered how to embed a Navigation Bar...
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Nov 29, 20222 min read
To Gauge or Not to Gauge
Whenever I teach one of my Tableau classes, a question I am always asked is how can you make a Gauge Chart in Tableau? The quick answer...
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Nov 17, 20223 min read
Collapsible Containers and Navigation Buttons
In a previous blog here, I discussed how to perform Sheet Swapping with the help of a Parameter, a Filter and a Container. There are a...
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Nov 4, 20223 min read
Dynamic Top N and % of Total
What if you have a data set with over twenty-five Categories. What if you only wanted to display the values for the top 10 Categories and...
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