Creating Custom UIs with Map Layers

This blog post explores using Tableau’s new Map Layers feature to create custom User Interface elements such as popup charts, viz in tooltips and custom URL links.

13th Jan 2021 0

Tableau Map Layers

The new Map Layers feature allows you overlay multiple marks layers on a map removing the need to use a dual axis and opening up new possibilities for visualising multiple sources of spatial data.

2nd Dec 2020 1

Tableau Metrics

Tableau Metrics enable you to see KPIs and trends of various measures sourced from different dashboards in an easily digestible format that's optimised for mobile.

8th Apr 2020 2

Animated Transitions in Tableau

Animated transitions enable consumers of data visualisations to more easily understand changes between states such as when filtering, sorting or changing levels of granularity.

21st Jan 2020 7

50 Column Tables

This post takes a look at the new functionality in the 2019.4 beta to create 50 (dimension) column tables along with other table enhancements.

7th Oct 2019 0

Tableau 2019.2 New Features

2019.2 has been a bumper release with loads of great new features: parameter actions, hide/show containers, vector maps, spatial calculations and lots more. This blog includes a links to a workbook with a number of example use cases.

28th May 2019 2

Tableau Public API

Tableau Public has an API that allows you to download all the meta-data for your visualisations on the platform. In this blog post, I walk through the process and provide a template for you to build your own Tableau Public metrics dashboard.

13th May 2019 1

Parameter Actions

The second beta of 2019.2 includes an upgrade to Parameter Actions, which now allow you to select multiple values and pass an aggregation of those values to a parameter. This blog explains this new feature and walks through an example.

16th Apr 2019 3

Customisable Popup Charts

The Tableau 2019.2 beta introduces Show/Hide Container functionality, which, combined with the new Parameter Actions as well as Set Actions, allows for popup customisable charts.

17th Mar 2019 3

Creating a ‘toggle help screen’ for your dashboard

This blog uses the new Show / Hide Container feature in the Tableau 2019.2 beta to create a help overlay that displays instructions on how to use a dashboard that can be shown or hidden as needed.

10th Mar 2019 10

“Ask Data” – natural language queries in Tableau

This post takes a look at Ask Data, the new functionality in #Tableau 2019.1 to be able to ask questions of your data using natural language.

25th Feb 2019 0

URL Actions using Zone Friendly Names

This blog post takes a look at the upgraded URL Actions in the 2019.1 Tableau beta, which makes use of Zone Friendly Names.

28th Jan 2019 0

Vector Maps in Tableau

This blog post looks at the new vector maps in Tableau Online in the 2019.1 beta release.

18th Jan 2019 2

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