Tableau-bites

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

Joshua Milligan talks us through a neat workaround to create a cross-database Union – which is currently not supported in Tableau – by using Joins and the MAX function. Even

Sankey diagrams show the proportional “flow” (or make up) of one dimension from (or within) another. Ian Baldwin of The Information Lab takes us through his 20-step process to create

Michael Sandberg interviews the Data Duo, Pooja Gandhi and Adam Crahen, and pulls their top 3 favourite Tableau tips from each of them. The Data Duo have created more than

Mark Jackson chooses this hot topic to introduce a very interesting use of Google Sheets to collect and display data directly through Tableau. Yes, this provides you with the capability

Ryan Sleeper has a series of posts about improving the User Interface on dashboards. This tip covers two approaches for guiding your user from a landing page through various additional

In this post, Robert Curtis examines sorting on Discrete Measures and adds a few twists to present a bullet-in-bullet chart sorted based on user interaction. This technique also works when