Tableau-bites

Here is a “bonus track” for this edition of Tableau Bites. BEWARE. This is a massive reference library provided by Jeffrey Shaffer and includes links to posts on Graphing, Color,…

Annie Worman of Tableau talks through 5 easy to perform actions that you can do with Tableau Prep – the “new” tool from Tableau that has already had several releases.

Olga Tsubiks introduces and provides example use cases of 10 frequently used Tableau Calculations. This is part of her guide to help get Tableau Certified and is a great resource.

I am a fan of Treemaps, for specific use-cases, but they can be over-used. Elizabeth Ricks illustrates some pros and cons of using Treemaps, plus some possible alternatives. Read Original

Lilach Manheim walks through an example of the process for analyzing the fitness of averages and provides some ways of not “aggregating away” the insights. Read Original Article…

Ryan Sleeper uses data from his blog posts to remind us that doing the fundamentals, well, is really what it takes to master Tableau. He then points us to 5

Mark Edwards talks through various incarnations of a design for a tadpole chart. This can be a great way to visualize period-over-period changes for multiple members in a dimension Read

Typically, survey data is formatted so that each row corresponds to an individual respondent and a column for each question. Archana Ganeshalingam, a Product Consultant at Tableau, talks us through

…or, “Breaking News: Senior executives are paid more than junior positions”. Jeffrey Shaffer talks about the dangers of using averages to draw conclusions from the data and gives some great

Ken Flerlage points to an older post from Josh Tapley that gave him the inspiration to use Powerpoint as a quick and easy graphics tool for some of his fantastic