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Creating Lists of Values for Tableau from Text & Excel Sources

Jan 8, 2018 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

There are various use cases where we start out with a “flat” table like the Superstore sample data that has a number of columns with various dimensions and we want to make a simple list of unique values of one or more dimensions. such as a list th...

TipsandTechniques,aggregatedextract,Cartesianjoin,crossjoin,customSQL,dataextract,Excel,extract,hyper,pivot,pivottable,scaffold,SQL,tableaudataextract,union

Talk to your Tableau Dashboard

Jan 3, 2018 Chris DeMartini | www.datablick.com

Shouldn’t an author be able to explain their Tableau Dashboard to every person who views it? Of course they should! This capability should be available to authors and accessible to their end users, regardless of the end user’s abilities. We should...

BlogPosts,React+Tableau,Tableau,React,JSAPI

I really loved my Tableau 2017

Dec 31, 2017 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

Today is New Years Eve, and I’m sitting on my couch watching the morning news. I have a nice cup of coffee and my laptop. Seems like a great time to take a look back at 2017, and reflect on the year.Speaking Engagements You can ask anyone that kno...

Tips

Configurable Polygon Calendar

Dec 21, 2017 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

I’ve been working a lot with Polygons lately, trying to build more “templates” in Tableau that can be reused by the community. My last post on Polygon Hex Maps is a lot easier to implement than this one, if you follow it step by step. ...

Tips

Polygon Hex Map in Tableau

Dec 20, 2017 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

A while back, Matt Chambers wrote a really good post about how to Create Hex Maps in Tableau using Hex Shape marks. This was a derivative of the work Brittany Fong did on Tile Maps. I’ve always enjoyed both of these map alternatives, as it allows ...

Tips

How to plot rank deviations

Dec 19, 2017 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

In this post, we are going to talk about how to plot two Ranks, and show the deviations between them. This post will be done using Superstore, and does not require any data modelling.The goal of this viz is to allow users to compare tw...

Tips

Text Wrapping within Tableau Panes

Dec 18, 2017 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

I recently got a request for help with a wrapping challenge. Not holiday presents, instead text wrapping in Tableau. Here’s a demo view illustrating the problem: There’s a whole bunch of ellipses (…) where there’s too much data to display. The onl...

TipsandTechniques,Visualizations,heatmap,highlighttable,INDEX(),pane,panel,panelchart,panelcharts,SIZE(),tablecalcs,tablecalculations,text,textwrap,trellis,trellischart,trellischarts,waffle,wafflechart,wafflecharts,wrap,wrapping

Batch PDF for Tableau Server or Tableau Public

Dec 16, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Batch PDF for Tableau Server or Tableau Public

Radial Mapping in Tableau

Dec 15, 2017 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

“As the Crow Flies” is an expression for the shortest path between two points (geographically) regardless of landscape. When working with geography, sometimes we want to see how various aspects of our business are performing relative to a central ...

Tips

How to fix Bar Charts widths "just right" when changing date levels

Dec 14, 2017 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

Quick and fun post of a recent trick I learned writing another post!Have you ever created a Date Level swap (Drill down/up from Year-> Month, etc), and got irritated that the bar chart widths never looked great? Sure we can change the Date to D...

Tips

How to Density Scatter Plot with Marginal Histograms

Dec 14, 2017 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

Special Thanks to Steve Wexler, Matt Chambers and Alan Eldridge.I recently read a post by Alan Eldridge about creating Hex Bins in Tableau. He was inspired by someone in the Power BI community who showed off the technique. The idea was to use Hexb...

Tips

How to Use the Alteryx Gallery API to Embed Apps & Workflows

Dec 12, 2017 | andredevries.dev

In this blog post, I will walk you through setting up an environment in which you utilise the Alteryx Gallery API in order to embed apps and workflows. You will find code snippets that should help you understand how to use the Gallery API endpoints.

Easy as Pie React + D3 Chord Diagrams in Tableau

Nov 28, 2017 Chris DeMartini | www.datablick.com

… We are going to be integrating with and leveraging Nivo, which is self described by Raphaël Benitte (it’s creator) as “supercharged React components to easily build dataviz apps, it’s built on top of d3.” Nivo is one of many react component libr...

BlogPosts,D3,JSAPI,React+Tableau

A Hack-Job way to create a Jump Plot in Tableau

Nov 16, 2017 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

Ok, so before I get into this…if you really want to use a Jump Plot, you should probably go to http://www.jumpplot.com/ and follow Chris DeMartini’s awesome posts (also, I’m writing this fairly quickly, so I apologize if it sucks). But if you just...

Tips

Visualizing MLB pitch location data with Alteryx + Tableau

Nov 6, 2017 Chris DeMartini | www.datablick.com

This project started with some really interesting reading on the work done by brooks baseball (Dan Brooks and several others) and fastballs (by Mike Fast) sites. There are references to these sites throughout this post. 

BlogPosts,Alteryx,Tableau

Tableau Tips - Volume 12 "10 tips for Viz in Tooltips"

Oct 21, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Tableau Tips - Volume 12 “10 tips for Viz in Tooltips”

Making your Alteryx Workflows Enterprise Ready: A checklist

Oct 21, 2017 | andredevries.dev

In this blog post I sketched out a checklist that you can follow when you want to deploy Alteryx workflows in an enterprise environment.

Create a step chart in Tableau without Data Modeling

Oct 20, 2017 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

How to create Step chart in Tableau, without unioning/modeling your data.This example is going to use Vanilla SuperStore, no modelling, just as it is out of the box.To begin, we have to understand what a Step Chart is, and why is can be difficult ...

Tips

Waffle Charts and Unit Charts on Maps

Oct 20, 2017 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

One of the people I really wanted to meet at #data17 was Sarah Battersby, if you haven’t seen her blogs on mapping you’re missing out. It turns out she wanted to meet me, too! Awesome to meet a data idol! #MeAndMyZen pic.twitter.com/nKHr8yGJxt — S...

TipsandTechniques,Visualizations,jitter,jittering,map,mapping,maps,tablecalculations,unit,unitchart,waffle,wafflechart

Automatic Bins and Beeswarms in Tableau

Oct 18, 2017 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

Ok, quick and dirty how to (mostly because I’m copying a lot of this from a old post I put on the Forums).Setting up the Automatic BinsTableau suggests the Optimal Bin Size by performing the following Calculation on the dataset.( MAX([Measure Valu...

Tips

Where's DataBlick at #data17?

Oct 6, 2017 Jonathan Drummey | www.datablick.com

We’re saddened and outraged by the tragedy in Las Vegas and offer our sympathies to those affected. And we are determined to help make the Tableau Conference a place of connection, community, and support for the attendees and those who were affect...

Tableau

Linear Geometry Spatial Files in Tableau: Simple as 1-2-3

Oct 1, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Linear Geometry Spatial Files in Tableau: Simple as 1-2-3

Switching Map Shapefiles Using Parameters and Calculated Fields

Sep 22, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Switching Map Shapefiles Using Parameters and Calculated Fields by Peter Fakan

Updated Tableau Public https://www.dataplusscience.com/UpdatedURLs.htmls

Sep 19, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Updated Tableau Public URLs

Lighting as an attentive attribute in KPI dashboards

Sep 11, 2017 Anya A'Hearn | www.datablick.com

I have been mulling over his technique of using broadly applied atmospheric washes of paint to draw focus and create intensity, and how to apply it to data visualization.  We usually use the attentive attributes of color, size, shape, position, et...

Tableau

How to create Dynamic Reference Areas using a Reference Line

Sep 6, 2017 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

One of the things I love most about Tableau is how many ways there are to accomplish a goal, whatever that may be. Whenever I see a cool technique, I often find myself trying to figure out another way to do it. Sometimes the other way is easier, s...

Tips

How to Dynamically Shade Areas of Outliers

Sep 6, 2017 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

Working of this blog post about how to Shade and Area using a Parameter and a Reference Line http://www.datatableauandme.com/2017/09/how-to-create-dynamic-reference-areas.html I wanted to see if a similar method could be used to Dynamically shade ...

Tips

How to "Split-up" a long Bar Chart in Tableau

Sep 5, 2017 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

Every so often, an Analyst might run across a situation where they need to compare values among a very long list of categories. This is simple enough to accomplish in Tableau, but there is generally a pitfall….you might have to scroll….So what do ...

Tips

Dataviz Fun for #Datakids

Sep 5, 2017 Chris DeMartini | www.datablick.com

As we all get ready for back to school (or are already back in school), whether it be Kindergarten or 8th grade its always fun to get vizzing and to get your kids involved!

How to Shade between 2 Lines in Tableau

Aug 28, 2017 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

I have been playing around with Polygons a lot more in Tableau lately, and am starting to really like them. Polygons are very valuable, they are often used with Maps, or for sankeys/area charts, but they are also beneficial for emphasizing gaps be...

Tips

How to Area Bump Chart in Tableau

Aug 25, 2017 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

This is going to be a fairly long and kinda complicating post……A few months back, I was working with a Dataset of Film Distributors, and was looking for a story in the Data. While doing so, I found that Buena Vista (Disney) has increased it’s Perc...

Tips

Displaying Hours and Minutes in Tableau

Aug 22, 2017 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

Steve Fenn recently shared a MoM viz that dealt with a “Time” field on Twitter. He also graciously shared the calc he used to show the Datetimes as “Time”….See currently, there is no 2017-08-22PART, or Custom Date Types for Time in Tableau, which ...

Tips

Viz: The Price of Bitcoin

Aug 19, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Viz: The Price of Bitcoin

Visualizing current value with high and low across different scales

Aug 5, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Visualizing current value with high and low across different scales

A Dating Lesson: Using Math to Get Dates (by Converting Julian Dates)

Jul 6, 2017 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

I recently had to convert some date fields formatted as Julian dates into more usable Tableau date data types (it’s not a date format that Tableau natively understands) and my web search got me a little frustrated because all the solutions I found...

TipsandTechniques,bin,CYYDDD,date,datemath,2017-07-06ADD(),dates,JDEdwards,JDE,julian,juliandates,mathtricks,modulo,YYYYDDD

Why Alteryx solves your Problems

Jul 1, 2017 | andredevries.dev

How retracing and iterating backwards from your solution to your problem can be used within Alteryx

Alteryx’s Drive Time Engine

Jun 27, 2017 | andredevries.dev

In this blog post, I will walk you through setting up an environment in which you utilise the Alteryx Gallery API in order to embed apps and workflows. You will find code snippets that should help you understand how to use the Gallery API endpoints.

Tableau Solution - Embedding https://www.dataplusscience.com/EmbedImages...

Jun 20, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Tableau Solution - Embedding URL Images in Tableau Public

How to Create a Wheat Plot in Tableau

Jun 15, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

How to Create a Wheat Plot in Tableau

Tableau Tips - Volume 11 "Shape Shifters: 10 Tips for Using Shapes in Ta...

Jun 9, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Tableau Tips - Volume 11 “Shape Shifters: 10 Tips for Using Shapes in Tableau”

Tableau Tips - The 10th Volume of 10 Tips for Tableau 10

Jun 5, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Tableau Tips - The 10th Volume of 10 Tips for Tableau 10

Learning Tableau: Resources and tips to help you on your Tableau journey

May 12, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Learning Tableau: Resources and tips to help you on your Tableau journey

Viz: Beautiful Trash

May 3, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Viz: Beautiful Trash

Why I Wrote The Big Book of Dashboards

May 2, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Why I Wrote The Big Book of Dashboards

Get Some Pointers on How to Use Tableau (Or Not) Thursday, April 27 in SF

Apr 24, 2017 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

This Thursday, April 27th I’ll be speaking at the San Francisco/Bay Area Tableau User Group at Mapbox’s brand new headquarters on How (Not) to Use Tableau. The talk is based on my experiences helping users and organizations get the most out of Tab...

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