Virtual Event Recap: Tableau Deep Dive: Changing Your Crosstab Culture

Mar 10, 2021 Beth Kairys | interworks.com

Our most recent virtual Lunch & Learn covered how to change your crosstab culture. Crosstabs are one of those enduring and painful components of analytics where you make something beautiful, and someone somewhere asks for a table of numbers. T...

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How to Create a Control Chart

Mar 9, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

Control charts are used to monitor the stability and control of measurements over a period of time. There are four elements to make an effective control chart.  A control chart is a time series graph.A line across the time series that represents t...

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3 Innovative Ways to Highlight Selections in Tableau

Mar 9, 2021 Ethan Lang | playfairdata.com

In this tutorial I will demonstrate three ways to use different mark types with transparent… Read MoreThe post 3 Innovative Ways to Highlight Selections in Tableau appeared first on Playfair Data.

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#MakeoverMonday Week 10: Female Participation in the Summer Olympics

Mar 8, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

First, thank you to Tommaso Ferri for moderating Watch Me Viz. I enjoyed working with this data set and was able to build nine vizzes in about 40 minutes, then took another 40-50 working through formatting and some pesky table calcs. I got there i...

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Drill Down/Up | Without using Split & Findth

Mar 8, 2021 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

This post is a complement to the publication “Drill Down/Up Basic technique in a Multi-Level Hierarchy“, where a detailed explanation of the basics of how this technique works is given. This exercise was born out of the need to be...

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Drill Down/Up | With Multiple Hierarchies

Mar 8, 2021 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

This post is a complement to the publication “Drill Down/Up Basic technique in a Multi-Level Hierarchy“, where a detailed explanation of the basics of how this technique works is given. About this exercise, the Tableau Zen Klaus S...

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Drill Down/Up | With Different Levels of Data Disaggregation

Mar 8, 2021 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

This post is a complement to the publication “Drill Down/Up Basic technique in a Multi-Level Hierarchy“, where a detailed explanation of the basics of how this technique works is given. This exercise arises from the need to perfor...

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Drill Down/Up | Utilizando la Gráfica Principal para el Drill Down

Mar 8, 2021 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

El presente post es un complemento de la publicación “Drill Down/Up Técnica básica en una jerarquía de múltiples niveles“, en donde se encuentra la explicación de las bases de la técnica. El objetivo del presente post es mostrar u...

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Drill Down/Up | Using the Main Chart for the Drill Down

Mar 8, 2021 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

This post is a complement of the publication “Drill Down/Up Basic Technique in a Multi-Level Hierarchy“, where you will find the explanation of the bases of the technique. The objective of this post is to show an example, where th...

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Drill Down/Up | Técnica Básica en una Jerarquía de Múltiples Niveles

Mar 8, 2021 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

Hace un año fue que escribí acerca de mi técnica para el manejo de Drill Down & Up para profundizar en jerarquías de múltiples niveles utilizando sólo dos parámetros. Ahora en agradecimiento a las personas que se han contactado conmigo, ya sea...

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Drill Down/Up | Sin Utilizar Split & Findth

Mar 8, 2021 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

El presente post es un complemento de la publicación “Drill Down/Up Técnica básica en una jerarquía de múltiples niveles“, en donde se ofrece la explicación detallada sobre las bases de cómo trabaja esta técnica. Este ejercicio na...

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Drill Down/Up | Con diferentes niveles de Detalle en los Datos

Mar 8, 2021 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

El presente post es un complemento de la publicación del post “Drill Down/Up Técnica básica en una jerarquía de múltiples niveles“, en donde se ofrece la explicación detallada sobre las bases de cómo trabaja esta técnica. Este eje...

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Drill Down/Up | Con Múltiples Jerarquías

Mar 8, 2021 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

Este nuevo post es presentado como un complemento de la publicación del post “Drill Down/Up Técnica básica en una jerarquía de múltiples niveles“, en donde se ofrece la explicación detallada sobre las bases de cómo trabaja esta té...

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Drill Down/Up | Basic Technique in a Multi-Level Hierarchy

Mar 8, 2021 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

It was a year ago that I wrote about my technique for handling Drill Down & Up into multi-level hierarchies using just two parameters. Now in gratitude to the people who have contacted me, either about the operation of this technique and / or ...

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Bringing Custom Color to Your Tableau Dashboards

Mar 8, 2021 Chelsea Morgan | interworks.com

Ready to add some more flavor and personality to your dashboard but not sure where to start? Color can be a difficult component to tackle when building out a dashboard, but luckily there are a lot of great resources that can help in this process…....

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The Power of Place: Unleashing Census Data in Your Tableau Analytics

Mar 8, 2021 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

Kevin and I are incredibly excited to have Sarah Battersby join us today as for another guest blog (if she keeps writing for us, we may have to make her an honorary Flerlage Twin!!). Sarah has been a member of Tableau Research since 2014. Her prim...

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How to Compare to the Same Day Last Year in Tableau

Mar 4, 2021 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

A few months ago, a blog reader, Om Parekh, reached out to me with a question. He was working on a project where he needed to compare each day to the same day the previous year. For instance, how did the third Wednesday in February, 2020 compare t...

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Creating Multi-Step Help Overlay Screens

Mar 4, 2021 datavis.blog | datavis.blog

Help overlay screens can help orient your dashboard consumers; providing context, instructions and the intended flow of analysis. This post shows you how you can create multi-step help overlay screens using background images.

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Using Excel PERCENTILE Functions in Tableau

Mar 4, 2021 Peter Gurr | interworks.com

If you are transferring a dashboard from Excel to Tableau, and the Excel file uses the PERCENTILE.INC and/or the PERCENTILE.EXC functions, this is how to handle them in Tableau. Some Basics of Percentile Calculations There are several different me...

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Can you hide a chart in map layers?

Mar 4, 2021 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Candra set the challenge this week to use the new map layers to build a map display which, on click of a country, filtered the display to that country and additionally displayed a donut chart indicating the percentage of urban dwellers in that cou...

The Data Detective

Mar 4, 2021 Steve Wexler | www.datarevelations.com

The Data Detective Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics by Tim Harford Readers of my blog and newsletter know that I am a big fan of the books Factfulness and Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me). I want to add Tim Harford’s The Data Detective...

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Guest Blog Post: Tableau Design Tips

Mar 3, 2021 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 The following is a guest blog post from Zak Geis.  Zak is the leader of the Tableau CoE at JPMorgan Chase where he and his team manage one of the biggest installations of Tableau in the world.  He is also a Tableau Ambassador in the D...

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Mastering Containers in Tableau

Mar 2, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

The Workout Wednesday 2020 Week 53 challenge required extensive knowledge of containers in Tableau. Containers can be quite the mystery! It’s taken me years to grasp them.

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How to Create a Circle Timeline

Mar 2, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

A circle timeline or bubble timeline is a way to display a series of dates on a timeline with a measure used to size the circles and, optionally, another measure to color the circles. A circle timeline combines a time series, a dot plot, and packe...

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Webinar Replay: Five Tableau UX Hacks for 2021

Mar 2, 2021 Jenny Parnell | interworks.com

We’re continuing our monthly webinar series brought to you by the InterWorks Assist team. Each month, we survey our teams to find out what topics and technology can most benefit the data communities we work with and then chart a course to bring me...

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Chart Chat Live — Round 19

Mar 2, 2021 Steve Wexler | www.datarevelations.com

We discuss bar-in-bar charts, scaredy-cats and TURDs, great work from the New York Times, how to visualize 500,000 deaths, and the orange/blue debate. https://youtu.be/kco5U5wgDfYThe post Chart Chat Live — Round 19 appeared first on Data Revelations.

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#MakeoverMonday Week 9 - Seats Held by Women in National Parliaments in ...

Mar 1, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

This week’s Makeover Monday was about representation of women in national parliaments and governments in the EU. Original ChartWhat works well?Clear titleLine chart is a good choice for a time seriesWhat could be improved?There are too many colors...

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The COVID Tracking Project is shutting down in a week. What next?

Mar 1, 2021 Chris von Csefalvay | medium.com

The COVID Tracking Project has been one of the most successful citizen-driven data collection projects in history. Driven by The Atlantic and supported by an army of volunteers, it has collected the nuggets of information about testing...

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Chart Chat Live — Round 18

Mar 1, 2021 Steve Wexler | www.datarevelations.com

In this Chart Chat we reflect on Sankey and proportion charts, unit charts, unemployment charts and presenting complex data. https://youtu.be/IIirXyOcbeQThe post Chart Chat Live — Round 18 appeared first on Data Revelations.

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Geospatial Analysis with Map Layers

Feb 28, 2021 datavis.blog | datavis.blog

With the ability to combine and overlay more spatial data, the Map Layers functionality enables a wider variety of geospatial analyses. This post walks through an example of searching for an Airbnb in London that meets different criteria.

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2 ways of creating a dynamic reference line in Tableau

Feb 26, 2021 Pat Lucas | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Dynamic Reference lines in Tableau can be used to add some great context to the visualization that might otherwise be missed. In this blog I’m going to talk you through how we can add these using set and parameter actions in Tableau.

How to Anonymize Private Data in Tableau Prep

Feb 25, 2021 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

While working with personally identifiable information, you may need to suppress sensitive data. Let’s say that you are working with healthcare data and want to suppress patient names.

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Can you use the Brush Filter Extension?

Feb 25, 2021 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

For this week’s challenge, Sean Miller decided to continue with the theme of dashboard extensions, introducing the brush filter extension. The whole of the top section is the extension, so there’s actually only a single chart that needs to be buil...

Alteryx Server in the Cloud

Feb 24, 2021 Paul Houghton | www.theinformationlab.co.uk

Deploying your infrastructure into the Cloud, of whatever provider you want, gives you a lot of flexibility in the resources you apply and what you can achieve. It allows for simple configuration changes depending on who you want to have access. T...

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The 2021 Gartner BI Magic Quadrant Visualized in Tableau

Feb 24, 2021 Kent Sloan | interworks.com

It’s that time again: Gartner has released the BI Magic Quadrant for 2021. This announcement is highly anticipated every year to see where Gartner has ranked BI companies. The factors they use include things like execution and scope of vision, and...

Data,BIMagicQuadrant,datavisualization,Gartner,Tableau

Four Methods for Creating a Seismogram

Feb 23, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

A Seismogram is an alternative to a circle timeline. They are a great way of showing change over time, and are particularly effective when there are big variations in the dataset.In this video, I show you how to build several version of a Seismogr...

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Introducing the Starschema Worldwide Address Data Set in Snowflake

Feb 23, 2021 ZsPalmai | medium.com

We’re happy to announce that, as part of our ongoing effort to democratize data, we’ve taken over as the provider of The Worldwide Address Data Set, a free and open global address collection on the Snowflake Data Marketplace. Last year Highland M...

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#MakeoverMonday Week 8 - Protests Against Limiting Abortion Rights in Po...

Feb 22, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

On 22nd of October 2020, in the middle of a pandemic, the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland ruled abortion in case of fetal malformations unconstitutional. In this week’s Makeover Monday, I ask where and when were the protests that followed?Watch ...

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3 Ways to Make Powerful Pareto Charts in Tableau

Feb 22, 2021 Ryan Sleeper | playfairdata.com

Pareto charts – named for the Pareto principle inspired by Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto –… Read MoreThe post 3 Ways to Make Powerful Pareto Charts in Tableau appeared first on Playfair Data.

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Introducing the Amazon SageMaker Integration for Tableau

Feb 22, 2021 Holt Calder | interworks.com

As 2020 was coming to a close at InterWorks, we were approached with a unique problem from an organization we greatly respect. Amazon has been at the forefront of cloud computing for the better part of my career, and in recent years, they have bee...

Data,amazon,AWS,cloud,machinelearning,SageMaker,Tableau

Guest Blog Post: Curvy Tournament Bracket Template

Feb 22, 2021 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 The following is a guest blog post from CJ Mayes.  CJ is a data analyst at Lloyds Banking Group in the United Kingdom.  He is a Tableau Featured author and has been doing incredible work on Tableau Public, much of which includes templ...

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R Code to Get Data from Twitter

Feb 22, 2021 | dataplusscience.com

During #data20 this year, I published a viz called #DATA20 BY THE MINUTE where I visualized total of tweets with the #data20 hashtag, counted by minute. In order to this, I need to set up R codes that collect data from Twitter. This would be a fun...

A Tableau Accessibility Journey - Part II - Focus Order

Feb 19, 2021 Chris DeMartini | www.datablick.com

This post is a continuation of A Tableau Accessibility Journey - Part I, which outlines the scope of the work to be covered in this series. The first part of this series includes a number of accessibility issues that were identified in our case st...

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Shortcut to Create a PDF, PNG or CSV of Published Tableau Views

Feb 18, 2021 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

There’s an age old trick for Tableau Server published content I was recently reminded of and wanted to share. You can quickly and easily export a pdf, png or csv of a Tableau worksheet or dashboard by appending the file type at the end of a Tablea...

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Can you use Dashboard Extensions?

Feb 18, 2021 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

For this week’s #WOW2021 challenge, Lorna tasked us with using dashboard extensions, some of which can also be used on Tableau Public (see here). I haven’t had an opportunity to use extensions before, so this was going to be a brand new learning e...