Animated transitions enable consumers of data visualisations to more easily understand changes between states such as when filtering, sorting or changing levels of granularity.
Animated Transitions in Tableau
Creating a Selection Panel with Parameter Actions
This post walks through how to create a selection panel using parameter actions, storing all selected items in the same parameter and giving feedback when the max number of items have been selected.
Drawing on Dashboards
Using a parameter as data source, this blog shows how you can draw sequential points over a grid or on a map with spatial points.
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.
Grouping Data into Custom Time Bins
For a recent project I had to group my data in to custom time bins, for example, 30, 60, 240 mins etc. In this blog I show two methods to do this.
Creating a Small Multiples Chart of Energy Usage
A small multiples chart helps to compare the same measures across multiple dimension values. This blog walks through how to create one in Tableau using Row and Column calculations.
Tour de France and Radial Charts
For this month's #SportsVizSunday and #SWDchallenge I created two radial charts as the basis for a bike themed Tour de France visualisation
Coral Reefs of Indonesia
For this month's #IronQuest, I take a look at geographic data on the amazing but sadly under threat Coral Reefs of Indonesia.
Preparing for the Tableau Server CA Exam
This blog post gives a an overview of the Tableau Server Certified Associate exam, how I prepared, and some links to resources.
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.
Creating a Selection Panel with Set Actions
How to create a selection panel - of 25 rows by 2 columns - to make selections which are used to highlight elements in a bump chart.
Creating Pagination in Tableau
This blog post walks through how to create pagination in Tableau for this week's #WorkoutWednesday challenge.
“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.
Workout Wednesday 2019 Week 6 – ‘Tree Charts’
This blog post walks through my approach to the Workout Wednesday challenge for 2019 Week 6, looking at 'Tree Charts'.
Chinese New Year and Thanksgiving – how do they compare?
A recap of Makeover Monday 2019 Week 6, looking at metrics around Chinese New Year and Thanksgiving. #Tableau #Mobile
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.
