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Learn crucial Tableau insights from our mentor, Steve.
Documenting a Tableau workbook with AI, and the four plans it took
The workbook lands in your lap Someone leaves. Their dashboard stays. Now it's yours. You open it...
The Moving Middle: Making Tableau’s Dynamic Colour Ranges Actually Analytical
Here's a confession to start with. I have absolutely spent an hour making a dashboard look...
The Analyst’s AI Pass — Part 2: If Neil Can Build It, So Can You
In Part 1, I made a claim that sounds like marketing until you see it happen: you don't have to be...
The Pulse Power Settings
You open Tableau Pulse. Your sales metric says 87.4% of target. If you've set this up with the...
Tableau Ambassador nominations are open. Here’s the bit nobody talks about.
I've been nominated as a Tableau Ambassador a few times now. And I'll tell you something I...
The Deep End: How Tableau Pulse Gets You Out of the Update Loop
You built the dashboard. You shared the link. You sent the email with the "here's how to use it"...
The Guide Rollout: How to Turn One Author’s Good Habit Into a Team-Wide Standard
I've been in rooms where someone spends twenty minutes explaining a dashboard. Walking through...
The Analyst’s AI Pass — Part 1: Claude Code Without the Code
I'll be honest with you. When I first saw "Claude Code," I assumed it was a developer's tool. For...
The Self-Explaining Dashboard: The Author Workflow Nobody Told You About
Your dashboard went live three weeks ago. You're still answering the same questions. "What does...
The Data Guide: Tableau’s Most-Ignored Feature (And Why That’s About to Change)
There's a button in your Tableau toolbar that most people have never clicked. It's been there...
When Nothing Really Matters
You built a ranked table. Two dimensions, one measure. You coloured the cells by rank so the best...
The Live Traffic Navigator: How Your Dashboard Can Read the Question Before the User Asks It
Your users come to the dashboard because the data has shown them something worth investigating. A...
The F-Word That Makes Dashboards Better
Perfection Feels Productive. It Isn’t.We beat ourselves up more than our stakeholders ever do.A...
Learning Tableau Forever (and Never Quite Being an Expert)
If you’ve been on a long drive with a dodgy sat-nav, you already know what it’s like to learn...
The Wow Dashboard Principle: Why Framing Matters More Than the Charts
Dashboards don’t live or die by charts. They live or die by perception. And perception is shaped...