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Yikes – I’m getting old in Tableau years. This week I clicked on a Tableau Public post I thought sounded interesting: 3 Tips to Overcoming the Excel Barrier to Tableau…

One of the major subsets of analysis (or drivers for analysis) is “Is this normal behaviour?”, and one of the most common chart types to address this question is the

Have you ever had the issue that you want to create extra space between bars which belong to a different category?It is really difficult to see which bars belong to

So you think you’re viz is not popular? Do you think you’re the only one that’s using it? Think again!If you’ve ever worked with Tableau Server (or maybe you haven’t)

This is part 1 of a 3 part series on going beyond the charts available in the “Show Me” panel in Tableau. In this first post, I’ll dig into my

LOOKUP(expression, [offset]) ZN() TOTAL() RANK(expression, [‘asc’], [‘desc’]) WINDOW_AVG(expression, [start, end]) ABS() INDEX() FIRST() LAST() CONTAINS(expression, expression to search for) Read Original Article…

First of all I want to say this post is hugely indebted to Olivier Catherin and his post four years ago on building Sankeys in Tableau and Jeff Schaffer whose

Cross database joins have been available in Tableau for a while now – and I love the ability to join data at a row-level across various databases and files! And

Flow! Use Workbook formatting to set defaults Use default aggregations and formatting for fields. Duplicate views to copy formatting. Use a few shortcuts! Find and use available resources (and give

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