Click Button Filters By Nelson Davies

This is one of my all time favs, though I think I hadn’t really used it until after going to TCC13 and seeing Ryan Robitaille’s presentation on “The Art and Science of the Zen Masters”.  Probably the one session that has most impacted me in the seven months since then (that means TCC14 is only five months away!!!).  One of the most useful takeaways from that talk was creating clickable buttons to use as filters on a dashboard.  I’ve now implemented it many times and it’s an excellent trick to have in the tool belt.I mentioned Ryan’s talk – I want to show two pictures from his awesome blog where he digs into visual design in Tableau and how he puts everything together.  The reason we dig into this was because the clickable button was a prominent feature of the dashboard:

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