Line Dancing: Theme and Variations on a Line Chart

Oct 2, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

Back in January, I published Bar Hopping: Theme and Variations on a Bar Chart.. This was a very popular visualization, and I so I started working on a Line Chart variation. Meanwhile, Andy Cotgreave had the same idea and so we decided to collabora...

Talk! The What, Why, and How of Tableau Extensions

Sep 24, 2019 | andredevries.dev

On the 8th of March 2019 I gave a talk for the Tableau EMEA Fringe Festival about Tableau Extensions. In this talk I spoke about what Tableau Extensions are, why you should use them and how you can create them.

Presenting to Fresh Eyes and Ears

Sep 12, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

I have been teaching data visualization at the University of Cincinnati for almost 8 years now. I have taught 33 classes, with 3 more this semester and nearly 1,700 students (not counting the students from this semester). The profile of the studen...

Map Marker Clustering in Tableau Using Parameter Actions

Aug 28, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

Last month I posted on how to create a map zoom with a radial distance circle and increasing mark size. In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to do marker clustering in Tableau using parameter actions.

How to quickly scaffold a Tableau Extensions Manifest file

Aug 23, 2019 | andredevries.dev

One of the first things you need to do when you start developing a Tableau Extension is to create a manifest file. Until now there was no quick way to quickly create this file. You had to go the the Tableau Github page and copy the contents of the...

Dynamic Number Formatting

Aug 14, 2019 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

Dynamic Number Formatting in TableauRecently I saw some examples of Dynamic Number Formatting on Twitter, so I though I’d share a solution I came up with a few years ago. This solution uses some simple math to determine the base 10 of a number. Us...

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Font Awesome Icons for Tableau

Aug 10, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

Font Awesome is a great collection of icons that are widely used in web development and other projects. The free version of the Font Awesome Icons is available for anyone to use. I loaded and organized all of the Font Awesome Free Icons into a Tab...

Connect to Spotify API with Alteryx

Aug 7, 2019 Hanna Nykowska | www.hanykowska.com

The authentication process for Spotify API is a bit tricky. I thought I’d make your life easier so that you could start using this API yourself!First published on The Information Lab Blog.

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Map Zoom with Radial Distance and Increasing Mark Size

Jul 27, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to create a map that will zoom in, filter and show a radial distance, control the radial distance, format the radial distance and the points and increase the mark size as it zooms in.

Tableau Tip Highlight Table with Info Icons

Jul 23, 2019 Hanna Nykowska | www.hanykowska.com

Oh, so you want detailed data in form of highlight table that includes info button for each row? I got you covered!First published on The Information Lab Blog.

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Viz: The Firebird Suite - Infernal Dance

Jul 14, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

Dinushki De Livera’s visualization of the Infernal Dance from Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite.

Viz: Analog Clock in Tableau

Jul 11, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

A working clock built in Tableau with time zones and different clock faces.

How to Automated Alteryx Reports

Jul 2, 2019 Hanna Nykowska | www.hanykowska.com

Say you have data that gets regularly updated and you need to send those updates to multiple people. Build automated reports with Alteryx!First published on The Information Lab Blog.

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Viz: Fly Me To A Campfire

Jun 27, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

A visualization of Direct Flights from Major Cities to U.S. Campgrounds.

Feeding the screen-time beast with shifting mobile metrics

Jun 24, 2019 Anya A'Hearn | www.datablick.com

There are a lot of helpful hints on modifying desktop dashboards into mobile ones. They tend to focus on altering the layout to be tall and being mindful of finger-based interactions. I feel they forget one critical aspect - users don’t actually w...

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An Open Letter to Salesforce

Jun 18, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

Last week Salesforce announced that it will be acquiring Tableau Software. On the morning of the announcement, my phone was blowing up with messages and calls from people all over the world, asking me my thoughts. In this post, I write an open let...

New Map Styles, Map Layers and Vector Maps in Tableau 2019.2

Jun 3, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

With the release of Tableau 2019.2, there are now new map styles and map layers available in Tableau. This allows the us to create a number of new maps in Tableau without embedding Google maps or other mapping tool like Mapbox. In addition, the ma...

Web Data Connector for Tableau Public

Jun 3, 2019 | andredevries.dev

Tableau Public is a great platform for showcasing your data visualisations. Now you can also start analysing the data about all your visualisations with a new web data connector (WDC) that I created. With the Tableau Public WDC you will be able to...

Tableau Tips - Volume 15 Quick Tips

Jun 1, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

Here is the 15th installment of Tableau tips where I explore quick tips that I find very useful.

Tutorial de Tableau Javascript API para torpes. Volumen 2. Refrescar la ...

May 29, 2019 dsmd4vid | dsmdaviz.com

Esta semana he tenido la oportunidad de dar los primeros pasos con la API de Tableau (con un conocimiento prácticamente nulo de Javascript) y, aún así, conseguido hacer algunos progresos. Por ejemplo, incluir una visualización y que se actualice s...

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Mapping Paths in Tableau 2019.2

May 16, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

In this blog post, I want to demonstrate one of the amazing new features that is now available in Tableau 2019.2 (currently beta). I am very excited about this because it will make mapping paths so much easier an more efficient, but it will also g...

Dashboard Drama - From Flat to Fabulous!

May 7, 2019 Anya A'Hearn | www.datablick.com

If we consider ourselves storytellers of data, then we should always strive to make those stories more engaging. Taking a cue from movies, photography, and stage, lighting can draw attention to the most critical components of a story. Directing fo...

Tableau,Design

Parameter Actions: Using a parameter as a data source

Apr 29, 2019 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

One of my favorite recent projects at PATH has been creating a decision-making dashboard to support indoor residual spraying vs. malaria in Zambia for the Malaria Control & Elimination Project in Africa (MACEPA). The goal is to use up the rema...

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Resources for learning JavaScript: YouTube

Apr 28, 2019 | andredevries.dev

Very often I get the question where should I start if I want to learn JavaScript? Besides recommending a few online courses I don’t have much to fall back on. In the next few posts I have therefore collated all the resources that I have used (and ...

Talk! Tableau Developers Virtual User Group

Apr 27, 2019 | andredevries.dev

A few weeks ago I spoke at the first Virtual Tableau Developers User Group. Click Read More to check out the video.

Sankey Diagrams: Why I Used the Sigmoid Function and Why You Probably Sh...

Apr 15, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

It’s hard to believe it’s been 5 years since I wrote this blog post on creating a Sankey-Style Slopegraph in Tableau and I outlined how to create an S-shaped curve using the Sigmoid function in this blog post. For those not familiar, here’s a brie...

How to Recreate a Unit Chart in Tableau Using Data Densification

Apr 7, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

Rodrigo Calloni posted a question on the Tableau forums last week asking how to recreate this chart in Tableau. Mahfooj Khan offered a great solution for this, creating a join to another sheet to add the additional marks needed for this unit chart...

Dear Data 2019 – Week 10, Data Pals

Apr 4, 2019 Ann Jackson | jacksontwo.com

Week 10 postcards are finally here for the data postcard project Sarah Bartlett and I are working on. The topic for the week was our relationship with each other. How …

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Dear Data 2019 – Week 9, To Do Lists

Mar 25, 2019 Ann Jackson | jacksontwo.com

Week 9 of the data postcard project Sarah Bartlett and I are working on have arrived. The topic of the week was To Do Lists. I don’t actively keep good …

Data,DataVisualization,DearData,deardata

How to Build an Overlapping Bar Chart in Tableau

Mar 18, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

There continues to be strong interest in my recent visualization, Bar Hopping: Theme and Variations on a Bar Chart. This week on LinkedIn, Steve Adams saw the post and asked about building another variation of a bar chart in Tableau. He was strugg...

Paso a Paso – Mapa de mosaico en Tableau

Mar 17, 2019 dsmd4vid | dsmdaviz.com

Construyendo un mapa de mosaico con cálculos de tabla para el Workout Wednesday (2019-10) Enlace con los requerimientos aquíMi resumen aquíEl reto de Ann Jackson es sencillo, pero contiene bastantes detalles: #WorkoutWednesday2019 week 10 is pluck...

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Dear Data – Week 7, Complaints

Mar 15, 2019 Ann Jackson | jacksontwo.com

Week 7 postcards have long been delivered and this blog post is overdue. As if the subject for the cards had some influence, the theme of complaints seemed to have …

Data,DataVisualization,QuantifiedSelf,deardata

Dear Data 2019 – Week 8, Phone Addiction

Mar 15, 2019 Ann Jackson | jacksontwo.com

After the terrible flurry of complaints, Sarah and I continued on with week 8 of the dear data postcard project we’re conducting. Week 8 was a welcome change, tracking how …

Data,DataVisualization,DearData,QuantifiedSelf

How to create a Task Scheduler in NodeJS

Mar 15, 2019 | andredevries.dev

In this blog post I’m describing how to setup a task for running your node code on a particular schedule.

Web Objects on Tableau Public Thumbnails

Mar 14, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

This is a quick tip to show you how you can deal with web objects on a Tableau Public visualization. It can be frustrating to build a viz and then upload it to Tableau Public, only to see lots of blank spaces on your visualizations in your gallery...

ES6: What are Classes?

Mar 14, 2019 | andredevries.dev

ES6 (ECMAScript 2015) introduced a ‘new’ way of creating constructor functions and prototypes - classes. In this blog I explain how to create classes and why they’re being used.

Viz: Cincinnati's Coming of Age

Mar 12, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

A visualizations of the aging buildings in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Using the Tableau Public API in 3 Easy Steps

Mar 12, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

In this blog post I will outline how you can get quick and easy statistics on any Tableau Public Profile using the Tableau Public API, and how to batch download Tableau workbooks from a Tableau Public Profile page. It’s pretty easy to pull your da...

ES6: Default vs Named Exports

Mar 12, 2019 | andredevries.dev

ES6 (ECMAScript 2015) introduced two types of module exports - default and named exports. In this blog I explain the differences between the two.

Installing Tableau Server on Linux (Ubuntu LTS 16.04)

Feb 26, 2019 Ann Jackson | jacksontwo.com

Over the past six months we’ve noticed a trend – most of our clients are interested in installing Tableau Server on Linux (opposed to Windows). In fact at the recent …

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Dear Data 2019 – Week 6, Physical Contact

Feb 24, 2019 Ann Jackson | jacksontwo.com

Week 6 postcards of the data project Sarah Bartlett and I are working on are here and I couldn’t be more excited. The theme of week 6 was physical contact. …

Data,DataVisualization,Personal,QuantifiedSelf

Tableau Recent File List, Thumbnails and Colors

Feb 20, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

When upgrading to a major release in Tableau, the list of recent files dissappears and the saved color palettes disappear. For Windows users, we can fix this with a few very simple steps. Note however, this requires modifying the registry, and it’...

Dear Data 2019 – Week 5, Purchases

Feb 20, 2019 Ann Jackson | jacksontwo.com

Week 5 of the data postcard project Sarah Bartlett and I are working on has long arrived and this blog post is overdue. I am a tiny bit behind schedule …

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"Off the Grid" - building Lo-Fi dashboards to create use and value

Feb 11, 2019 Anya A'Hearn | www.datablick.com

I recently had the opportunity to help organize and present at the first Tableau “Kenya Day for Data”.  In addition to great talks from powerhouses organizations like the World Food Progamme, and PATH, I ran a hands-on workshop on “How to Build Da...

Tableau,Design

Tutorial de Tableau Javascript API para torpes. Volumen 1. Cuándo no es ...

Feb 10, 2019 dsmd4vid | dsmdaviz.com

Esta semana he tenido la oportunidad de dar los primeros pasos con la API de Tableau (con un conocimiento prácticamente nulo de Javascript) y, aún así, conseguido hacer algunos progresos. Por ejemplo, descubrir cómo no hace falta para incluir la v...

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