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What if you want to know what the highest priced product is as well as the lowest? You may not be aware but you can use the FIRST and LAST functions in Tableau. But how do you pull the product closes...

Are you displaying a map in your dashboard and you have two states that are outside of the normal view? The use case I am referring to is displaying Alaska and Hawaii in a United States map.The issue...

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Have you ever encountered a data set where you have to compare a person's score with an average score? What kind of visualization would you use? You could just do a simple bar chart with a Reference l...

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If you are a beginner user in Tableau, you may not know what the best layout is for your dashboard. If you ever visit Tableau Public's Discover site here, there is a whole Business Dashboard section ...

Do you have a dashboard with sensitive data? Not only can you control access with row level filtering with the help of Tableau's ISMEMBEROF or USERNAME formulas, but what about customizing it even fur...

What is Tableau's Measure Names / Measure Values fields? If you are a beginner user, you may have noticed this field in your data pane. What does it do? In this blog, I provide four charts that were ...

In last week's blog post I discussed using Parameters for highlighting the background and text. This week I want to talk about another way of highlighting the background with the help of a Parameter a...

In last week's blog Use KPI as a Filter! I reviewed several dashboards that allowed you to click on them to filter the rest of the dashboard! This week I want to discuss how to create Zak Geis's heade...

If you are new to Tableau you may have seen KPI or BANs at the top of a dashboard. This is considered a best practice by Tableau's eye tracking study here. But what about taking that design a step fu...

Is your client asking for something in a Tableau dashboard that doesn't make sense? Agreeing with them might seem easiest, but it's not always the best approach. You have the knowledge about the appli...

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Sometimes, Highlight Tables are confused with Heat Maps. A Heat Map is a table that uses colors across two axes. A Highlight Table also uses colors to emphasize values, but the difference is that it ...

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What are sparkline charts? Sparkline charts are small line charts that are vertically stacked together instead of combining them all on one axis. Why would you use a sparkline chart over a regular line chart? You can see the variation of a metric over time for each dimension element. They are used for seeing trends quickly. Think of stocks for example, you see the peaks and valley next to each stock ticker. Here is an example from Tableau Public in a dashboard built by Thiago Lima. He added dots

How do you take your data beyond a table view and why would you do so? I came across the below image online and this is a very common issue developers come up against. Your stakeholders may want to show a table, but it's not the best representation of the data. The issue is that Tableau renders every cell individually, so if you have a large dataset, your performance may be slow rendering a table on the server. Additionally human beings are better at processing data with the help of pre-attenti

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Did you know some charts are better for human perception than others? There have been several studies on graphical perception or how we visually-mentally process graphs. One in particular is a Clevela...

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If you are a beginner user to Tableau, you may be aware of the automatic legend that appears when you apply a Measure to a worksheet. There you can interact with the legend's highlight feature. Did yo...

In past blog posts I talked about the importance of blank shapes. In this blog article I review a couple of use cases for them!In an upcoming Data + Women New England Tableau User Group on December 1...

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