Tableau-bites

As someone who had never encountered formulas in any capacity before beginning to use Tableau, I often find myself encountering a problem and thinking ‘I bet there is a really…

One of the challenges of busy dashboards in Tableau is that it can be hard to tell if a filter has been applied. Consider a dashboard like this where the

Set actions are a great way to add interactivity into your dashboard. I recently learnt how you could use a set action to show the difference from the average and

Somedays, I wonder when the internet became a massive park dedicated to billboards. Call me old, grumpy, or whatever else you must, but these bits and bytes have become far

Using colour is one of the most powerful ways to bring attention to key details within a visualization. Using big numbers is a favourite within the business world and adding

Logical calculations take on many forms, and each of us probably has habits that affect the way we write out calculations. This client’s question has several possible solutions, but what

Donut charts aren’t everybody’s cup of tea, but I quite like them for showing a percentage against a total which has to be 100%. Things like the percentage of tickets

Last month I posted on how to create a map zoom with a radial distance circle and increasing mark size. In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to do

Ok, this is probably not a big thing, but I have been thinking about it for quite a while now: How can I encode change in line charts accurately?Wait: Encoding

As I mentioned in the post, 3 Ways to Make Stunning Scatter Plots, this chart type is already my third favorite for its innate ability to visualize many records at