KPIs and Sparklines in the same Worksheet By Andy Kriebel

Today, I’m writing about combining KPIs and sparklines in a single view. It’s very common for business users to want to see KPIs and trends in the same view. These give them a sense for the overall direction of their product and also highlight the most meaningful numbers to them. I often see people create these as separate worksheets in Tableau, but with this post, I’m going to show you how to combine them into a single view.Combining them into a single view provides a couple of benefits:Tableau only needs to render a single sheet, so until parallel processing comes out in v9, you’ll see a performance benefit.If you have a hierarchy, then expanding the hierarchy will keep the table and the sparklines together.

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