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How to Build a Treemap in Tableau with Selected Levels of Detail

Apr 1, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

How to Build a Treemap in Tableau with Selected Levels of Detail

Row Level Security Using Tableau 10.0 Cross Data Source Filters by Jamie...

Mar 16, 2017 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

Row level security often presents challenges, if your security data is not in the same data source as your main data. In such cases, solutions tend to leverage one of four techniques: Data prep outside of Tableau – often involves cross products th...

TipsandTechniques,crossdatasourcefilters,datafilters,filters,performance,recordlevelsecurity,rowsecurity,v10.0

Multiple Ways to Multi-Select and Highlight in Tableau

Mar 13, 2017 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

Last year in version 10.0 Tableau introduced the highlighter that lets us quickly highlight marks. It’s got two potential limitations, though: We can only highlight a single value or all marks meeting a search criteria, not multi-select values. Ta...

FeatureGeek,TipsandTechniques,highlight,highlightactions,highlighter,union,v10.0,vizLOD

Tableau Tips - Volume 9 "10 Tips from a Makeover Monday Viz"

Mar 10, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Tableau Tips - Volume 9 “10 Tips from a Makeover Monday Viz”

Cross Data Source Joins + Join on Calcs = UNION Almost Anything in Table...

Mar 9, 2017 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

Since Tableau v9.0 or so every new release has come with new features that simplify and reduce the amount of data prep I have to do outside of Tableau. Pivot in version 9.0, the first batch of union support in v9.3, support for ad hoc groups in ca...

FeatureGeek,TipsandTechniques,blending,Cartesianjoin,crossdatabaseproduct,datablend,datablending,dualaxismaps,join,joincalc,joinoncalculation,map,mapping,union,v10.2

Moving a Reference Line to the Back?

Mar 7, 2017 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

Can you move a Reference Line to the Back in Tableau?Why yes you can!Ok….you can sort of….In the current version of Tableau, there is no option to Move a Reference Line to the back. It just doesn’t exist, not sure why, just doesn’t. However, you c...

Tips

Using Treemaps to Visualize Data

Mar 6, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Using Treemaps to Visualize Data

Building an Organizational Chart in Tableau

Mar 1, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Building an Organizational Chart in Tableau by Josh Weyburne

The last 5%, simple tricks to make your Dashboards POP!

Feb 27, 2017 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

After accuracy, the most important part of a Dashboard is its’ ability to clearly answer the primary questions of the audience. Deciding which charts to use and how to organize them is a very difficult task. The Analyst has to weigh a multitude of...

Tips

Dr.CurveNoMore or: How I learned to stop curving lines and love the bar ...

Feb 24, 2017 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

For anyone that has followed me over the past year, I am about to contradict everything I use to do and say……One of the things I love the most about Data Visualization is the fact that I don’t know everything, and probably never will, which means ...

Tips

Examining the Tableau Font

Feb 17, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Examining the Tableau Font

Drawing Shapes in Tableau

Feb 15, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Drawing Shapes in Tableau

Visualizing a Confusion Matrix

Feb 10, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Visualizing a Confusion Matrix

Using Google Analytics to Track Your Tableau Visualizations

Jan 20, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

Using Google Analytics to Track Your Tableau Visualizations

How to Create Vector Graphics and High Resolution Images of your Tableau...

Jan 19, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

How to Create Vector Graphics and High Resolution Images of your Tableau Visualizations

What to do when so many people get it wrong

Jan 11, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

What to do when so many people get it wrong

2016 - A Year in Review

Jan 2, 2017 | www.dataplusscience.com

2016 - A Year in Review of the Data Plus Science Website

Tableau Tips Volume 8

Dec 26, 2016 | www.dataplusscience.com

Tableau Tips Volume 8: “10 Tips for a Rainy Day Viz”

Tableau Tips Volume 7

Dec 20, 2016 | www.dataplusscience.com

Tableau Tips Volume 7: “Walking the Lines”

Top 50 Domestic Box Office Movies each year from 1996-2016

Dec 15, 2016 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

I collected and analyzed the Top 50 Domestic Box Office films each from 1996-2016 using IMDB.com and Parsehub.com. While playing around with the data, I had the idea to focus on Genre, on how films connect between them. For example, an Action-Come...

DataViz

A Christmas Carol Text Analysis

Dec 12, 2016 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

Happy Holidays everyone. My wife and I have been on a binder watching Holiday Movies lately, which means I’ve seen about 5 renditions of A Christmas Story (A Muppet Christmas Carol is still my favorite). So I thought it would be fun to do a viz on...

DataViz

How to Sigmoid Bump Chart (Spline?)

Dec 10, 2016 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

If you follow me or my blog, you probably know that I am partial to the curve. I particularly love the sigmoid function, I don’t know why, I just think it looks cool. One of the things I’ve been playing with lately is incorporating multiple sigmoi...

DataViz,Tips

How to Change a Discrete Field Label in Tableau

Dec 9, 2016 | andredevries.dev

How to Change a Discrete Field Label in Tableau

New in Tableau 10.2 - Join Calculation

Dec 2, 2016 | andredevries.dev

In this blog I will look at the ‘Join Calculation’, a new feature in Tableau 10.2.

Viz: All Music Was Once New

Nov 28, 2016 | www.dataplusscience.com

A visualization showing a very small sample of my music collection, done in the style of Gregorian Chant Notation.

Tableau’s Document API & Python

Nov 23, 2016 | andredevries.dev

In this blog I will go through the basics of the Document API, what you can do with it and we are going to create a Python script to extract information from a Tableau data source.

Tableau Tips Volume 6

Nov 22, 2016 | www.dataplusscience.com

Tableau Tips Volume 6: “Map Tips”

#data16 Makes 5: My 2016 Tableau Conference Preview

Nov 3, 2016 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

In about 42 hours I’ll be getting on a plane to Austin, TX for the 2016 Tableau Conference, the highlight of my Tableau year where I get to meet, learn from, and celebrate with 12,000 dataviz geeks and a couple of thousand of their enablers (the l...

Announcements,#data16

You Can’t Get There From Here: My Checklist for Connecting to Databases

Nov 1, 2016 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

I grew up with the Maine story “Which Way to Millinocket” that famously ends in “You can’t get there from here.” Sometimes I feel like that when connecting to a brand new database in Tableau, here are a couple of recent errors:   “Unable to connec...

TipsandTechniques,connect,connection,connections,database,databasedriver,db,driver,odic

Two Sequential Color Palettes on the Same Map: Coloring by a Dimension a...

Oct 24, 2016 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

Back in 2014 I was inspired by this New York Times post The Most Detailed Maps You’ll See from the Midterm Elections to try to figure out how to replicate those maps in Tableau. The maps essentially uses three color palettes on the same map, blue ...

TipsandTechniques,blue,color,colors,customcolor,custompalette,detail,diverging,divergingpalette,dualaxis,dualaxismaps,levelofdetail,map,mapping,palette,red,sequential,sequentialpalette,vizLOD

How To Create a Bar Chart on a Map in Tableau

Oct 4, 2016 | www.dataplusscience.com

A step by step for building bar charts and stacked bar charts on a map in Tableau.

How To Recreate a Pew Research Center Chart in Tableau

Oct 1, 2016 | www.dataplusscience.com

How To Recreate a Pew Research Center Chart in Tableau

Tableau Tips Volume 5

Sep 29, 2016 | www.dataplusscience.com

Tableau Tips Volume 5

Building the International Space Station Tracker Using JSON and Tableau ...

Sep 24, 2016 | www.dataplusscience.com

Building the International Space Station Tracker Using JSON and Tableau Javascript API.

Changing the Style in the new Tableau 10 Embed Code

Sep 9, 2016 | www.dataplusscience.com

Embed Tableau viz in various forms; round containers, borders, shadows, oval shapes, rotation and even making tiny versions of the viz.

Google Finance Data in Tableau 10 using Google Sheets Connection

Sep 2, 2016 | www.dataplusscience.com

Using Google Sheets and Google Finance data in Tableau 10

What I did on my summer vacation (hint: it’s about Tableau v10 and Marim...

Aug 25, 2016 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

This summer while beta testing Tableau v10 I was very curious about the new mark sizing feature. Bora Beran did a new feature video during the beta showing a Marimekko chart aka mosaic plot. There have been a few posts on building Marimekko charts...

TipsandTechniques,Visualizations,charttype,charttypes,design,marimekko,mekko,mosaic,mosaicplot,olympic,olympicchart,spinogram,stackedspinogram,submarinechart

Viz: "Current Location of the International Space Station"

Aug 21, 2016 | www.dataplusscience.com

Viz: “Current Location of the International Space Station”

Connecting Google Sheets with Tableau 10

Aug 20, 2016 | www.dataplusscience.com

Connecting Google Sheets with Tableau 10

When 576 = 567 = 528 = 456: Counting Marks

Aug 17, 2016 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

Tableau’s data densification is like…nothing else I’ve ever used. It’s a feature that is totally brilliant when it “just works” like automatically building out a running sum on sparse data and mind-taxingly complicated when a data blend’s results ...

TipsandTechniques,UnexpectedResults,densification,densify,domaincompletion,domainpadding,markscount,padding,tablecalcs,tablecalculations,v10,v9

Tableau Tips Volume 4: "Using Unicode Characters in Tableau"

Jul 31, 2016 | www.dataplusscience.com

Tableau Tips Volume 4: “Using Unicode Characters in Tableau”

Getting the Version of a Tableau Workbook in a Few Clicks

Jul 14, 2016 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

In helping other Tableau users as part of DataBlick or my pro-bono contributions to the community I get a lot of Tableau workbooks in a lot of versions, in the last two weeks I’ve received v8.3, v9.0, v9.2, v9.3, and v10beta workbooks and when I e...

TipsandTechniques,7-zip,BBEdit,texteditor,TextWrangler,version,XML

TRIMMEAN() in Tableau

Jul 12, 2016 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

Excel’s TRIMMEAN() function can be quite useful at removing outliers, essentially it removes the top and bottom Nth percent of values and then computes the mean of the rest. Here’s the equivalent formula in Tableau that in Superstore Sales compute...

TipsandTechniques,Excel,Excelfunctions,functions,levelofdetailexpressions,lod,LODs,TRIMMEAN()

Tableau Tips Volume 3: "Speed Tips"

Jul 9, 2016 | www.dataplusscience.com

Tableau Tips Volume 3: “Speed Tips”

Parallel Coordinates via Pivot and LOD Expressions

Jul 8, 2016 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

Parallel coordinates are a useful chart type for comparing a number of variables at once across a dimension. They aren’t a native chart type in Tableau, but have been built at different times, here’s one by Joe Mako that I use in this post for the...

TipsandTechniques,charttypes,charts,parallelcoordinates,pivot

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