Tableau Animations: Scrolling Bar Chart Animation is now available with the release of Tableau 2020.1. With the release brings new possibilities for what can be done with animations. This brings the opportunity to add a missing preattentative attribute to the … Read More
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Parameters in Tableau vs. Looker
Parameters in Tableau vs. Looker Parameters allow users to interact with the back-end logic in a dashboard. I’m grateful any time a data visualization tool has some kind of parameter functionality, as many currently lack it. For example, while trying … Read More
Alteryx’s Filter Tool
Alteryx’s Filter Tool It’s easy to split your data into some very *colorful* data streams using Alteryx! Check out this week’s video below to learn how you can use simple (or complex!) True/False statements to handle certain data, differently. The … Read More
Top Five: Ways to Mislead with Data Visualizations
Five Ways to Mislead with Data Visualizations Presenting data as some sort of visual — a bar or line chart, scatter plot, a map, etc. — is a powerful storytelling technique. Instead of sifting through hundreds or thousands of individual … Read More
Map Navigation with Parameter Actions
Map Navigation Using Parameter Actions In this post we will discuss how to use Parameter Actions to navigate around a theoretical supply chain on Tableau map. Requirements: We want to be able to click on either a supplier or a … Read More
Six Things That Are Killing Your Dashboard Performance
Six Things That Are Killing Your Dashboard Performance There are a few quick changes you can make that will improve your dashboard’s performance from slow to pro. These changes can take your dashboard from a minute to load to less … Read More
Alteryx’s Formula Tool
Alteryx’s Formula Tool We don’t need magic and a cauldron to create some great data for our analysis… Check out the video below to see how to create and manipulate your fields’ values, using the Formula tool! There’s are a … Read More
DATE PARSING | ALTERYX WEEKLY CHALLENGE #4 | I CAN ALTERYX THAT
DATE PARSING | ALTERYX WEEKLY CHALLENGE #4 | I CAN ALTERYX THAT You’ve been given a data set that contains records of text data. In each record, a date string is found somewhere. Unfortunately, the date string can be in … Read More
RUNNING AVERAGES | ALTERYX WEEKLY CHALLENGE #3 | I CAN ALTERYX THAT
RUNNING AVERAGES | ALTERYX WEEKLY CHALLENGE #3 | I CAN ALTERYX THAT Alteryx doesn’t have a built-in running average tool (that would be pretty sweet though). In this challenge, we have a data set that contains several measures for a … Read More