Tableau-bites

Tableau’s Queen of Set Actions, Lindsey Poulter shows you how to use Set Actions to switch either metrics or dimensions in your dashboard using the tried and trusted Superstore dataset.…

Points of Viz’ Mark Edwards shows you how to tidy up your Tableau chart labels with secret reference lines. Mark demonstrates how to create space for your labels in your

Tableau has released an Executive KPI Dashboard Starter Kit for healthcare professionals. Derek Cyr explains how the starter kit can help hospitals deploy a solution to see and understand the

Colin Wojtowycz visually analyses the questions to ‘why’, by using Tableau’s new dedicated dashboard buttons. Colin explains how having different views enables the audience to see different insights from the

Tableau Magic’s Toan Hoang has a quick tip that will show you how to build a connected bar chart in Tableau in five minutes or less. He uses the Orders

Playfair Data’s Ryan Sleeper explains how to drill into a single row of a text table in Tableau, utilizing the trusty Superstore dataset. The trick to click into a single

Zen Master Bridget Cogley highlights how we should be designing dashboards for the whole picture. By working together through the charts that make up the dashboard, Bridget emphasises that it

Webranz’s Alex Waleczek questions the use of line charts and bar charts by looking at which chart you should use across different issues such as the usage of ink, the

The Information Lab’s Tom Pilgrem uses a bar-in-bar chart to demonstrate how to label the longest of a dual-axis bar chart by using some calculations to make your bar-in-bar charts