Notes on Tableau and Data Visualisation
In this follow-up blog post on Embedding Tableau views within Salesforce, I walk through two options for passing filters from the Salesforce UI to Tableau to improve the user experience and ensure your embedded dashboards are showing relevant information.
Highlight actions help focus the attention of your dashboard consumers on specific points of interest. Changing the shape of marks and/or making marks fully opaque amplifies that effect. This tip shows you how.
Two approaches to creating multiples axes in your charts without duplicating the number of marks in the view.
Part 2 of this custom number formatting post covers: large numbers, prefixes & suffixes, currency, localisation and Unicode with many examples.
This post covers an introduction to custom number formatting in Tableau with a variety of examples.
This post shows you how to change the default behaviour of viz-in-tooltips, removing the filter and adding a dynamic reference line using a parameter action.
This post steps through how to create labels on highlighted marks only, helping to keep your chart uncluttered but still allowing easy comparisons.
This blog shows how you can use MapBox to create a custom background map that only shows a filtered set of countries.
This post explains how you can use background images with conditions in Tableau to visualise data on different floors of a building. Floor plan images and data update dynamically.
This post includes some of my favourite tips to help save time when building dashboards. From keyboard shortcuts to formatting to working with containers.
This post highlights some of the techniques used in this travel planner dashboard that allows you to draw out two routes on a map, select the methods of transport and then compare them by distance and carbon emissions.
Needing to switch back to a sheet to use the size slider is not always ideal for making fine grained size adjustments on dashboards. This tip shows how you can use a parameter directly on a dashboard instead.
This post steps through how to create Edward Tufte's dot-dash-plot in Tableau, increasing the data-ink ratio of a standard scatter plot and revealing more insights.
This post walks through the process and Pages History settings to use for creating animated line charts in Tableau
This post walks through a method to quickly add lines over bars to show segments, which could be used at specific values or percentages.
Help overlay screens can help orient your dashboard consumers; providing context, instructions and the intended flow of analysis. This post shows you how you can create multi-step help overlay screens using background images.
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.
This post and associated workbook describe five methods of adding images to your Tableau visualisations including shapes, viz-in-tooltips, web objects, background images and image objects.
If you have latitude and longitude fields in your data, you can create tooltip URL actions to open Google Maps in a browser at the exact location of those fields for any row in your data. This blog walks through how to create these links.
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