The Magic of Tableau: Small Multiples and Faceting by Design
Every now and then, one of my clients will ask a question that sends me down a rabbit hole. I
Continue ReadingComing to Tableau from Excel? This series explores how the EXCEL to do things in Tableau.
Every now and then, one of my clients will ask a question that sends me down a rabbit hole. I
Continue ReadingYou’ve done it: you’ve bought Tableau Desktop licenses, maybe even Server! You’re itching to get others on board and ready
Continue ReadingWith Tableau 10 came the ability to add Marimekko charts. Now, keep in mind, these are considered advanced visualization for
Continue ReadingHumans are mystifying creatures, as Spock can surely tell you. Much like humans, Excel is quite baffling. What started life
Continue ReadingI recently did a webinar where I showed an automated holiday calculation in Tableau. A LOT of people told me they wouldn't even know where to begin.
Continue ReadingLet’s face it: moving from calculations in Excel to those Tableau can feel a bit like steering the NSEA Protector for
Continue ReadingI’ve gotten a tremendous amount of feedback in response to to original, so like The Matrix, I decided it was time
Continue ReadingI just wanted the map to disappear. Not completely off the page, mind you. No, I wanted the information, but
Continue ReadingI once spent months building a dashboard. In Excel. With pivot tables. And GETPIVOTDATA. And all sorts of lookups, calculations, conditional
Continue ReadingFar out in the uncharted plains of the Gartner BI Quadrant of the data visualization software options of the data universe lies a
Continue ReadingWhen I first started doing what it is I do, I started with the hammer of all tools: Excel. I learned
Continue ReadingA long time ago, in a version of Tableau far, far away, there lived sets and no Level of Detail
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