Tableau Blogs

Imagine this. Your dashboard gets opened in a meeting. You’re not there. But it is. And it has to speak for you. In that moment, your build isn’t just a…

Don’t be a sausage……machine. Most dashboards are sausage machines. Yours doesn’t have to be. Take every stakeholder request. Mince it all together. Press it into a single view. Congratulations. You’ve

How to Gather Dashboard Requirements Without Triggering a Turf War Let’s Talk About the Real Killer of Good Dashboards: It’s not poor design. It’s not even bad data. It’s giving

Why teaching users is the shortcut to better dashboards Most people treat “shipping the dashboard” like crossing the finish line. It’s not. It’s the start of something far more valuable:

Ever built a dashboard, stared at it, and thought: “It’s “Ok…” but it’s not floating my boat…” You’re not alone. The truth is, most dashboards fail – not because they’re

Most dashboard projects start with good intentions – and end with blank stares. Why? Because they aim to look impressive instead of being genuinely helpful. But what if we flipped

As data professionals, we’ve all heard it: “Don’t use red and green in dashboards – people with colour vision deficiency won’t be able to tell the difference.”Fair. But incomplete. The

Let’s face it – there’s a reason dashboards still get exported to Excel. It’s not because users love spreadsheets. It’s because they’re not yet confident navigating your dashboard. They don’t trust what

Table calculations in Tableau – the pièce de résistance that lets you tweak your data display without mucking about with the raw numbers. They come into play right after all

Ever applied a filter in Tableau only to find your calculation ignores it? That’s because Level of Detail (LOD) expressions play by their own rules in Tableau’s Order of Operations.In this post, we’ll break