#TableauTipTuesday 2020 Week 41: Creating a Custom Date Hierarchy

This week follows on from the speed tipping session I did with Jeffrey Shaffer at Tableau Conference ish. I break down one of the tips to show you how to create a custom date hierarchy https://youtu.be/PWHPBJN1HIc Click here to go to the workbook

#TableauTipTuesday Week 41 – Market Basket Matrix

This week I was tasked with a challenge on how to show which services were brought with which other services. This brings me this weeks Tableau Tip Tuesday. I show you how to create a Market Basket Matrix in Tableau. How many Orders purchased have the same combinations of Sub-Categories.  

#TableauTipTuesday Week 37 – Using Navigation Actions

There are a variety of different ways a user can move from dashboard to dashboard. This week I show you 3 different actions you can perform depending on what outcome you want. You can either go directly to a dashboard via a click of a sheet, to a filtered dashboard by what you have clicked …

#TableauTipTuesday Week 23 – Using Set Actions to show/hide distribution

  This week, I wanted to take a look at Set Actions again. I used Lindsey Poulters examples to help with this tip. So you want to show the distribution of your order sales per sub category. By using set actions that's exactly what you can do. https://www.youtube.com/embed/G_iOf31g1XQ

#TableauTipTuesday Week 19 – Creating a High Level Map Border

Have you ever wanted to only show the border of the country or region you have data for? If you're only working with UK data or States data, and you don't want the rest of the world around it but you still want the outline of the country. Then this tip is for you!   …

#TableauTipTuesday – Week 11 | Explaining the difference between inner and outer padding

This week, I wanted to explain the difference between the infamous inner and outer padding. I also wanted to show you how to get a 1 pixel border, like Andy's post showed last week, but by using containers and padding. That little tip is curtsey from Pooja Gandhi Click the image to watch the video. …

#IronViz Survey Results are in…

We launched a survey to try and find some answers about what does or doesn't drive you to compete in #IronViz. We now have the results. They have been anonymised but you can see what everyone else is saying. The dashboard is interactive and select any category (Gender, Age, Experience) to filter the responses. If …

#IronViz participation data collection

There has been many discussions and debates about #IronViz at the Tableau Conference. So we thought we could try and take a data driven approach to help find out the reasons why they do or do not participate within IronViz. Emma Whyte, Eva Murray, Emily Chen & myself have put together a survey to help …

What happens at Conference gets shared with the world #Data17

The famous slogan from Vegas ‘What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas’ is not quite true when it comes to the Tableau Conference. There are many blogs already circulating about people’s experience of the conference this year. I wanted to share my thoughts on the annual Tableau Conference. This year was my Second american conference …

I’m a little Data Schooler in a deep Tableau sea | Part 2 : #Data16

Continuing on from my first post Pre-Conference Build-up which can be read here. I wanted to explain the surreal experience I have just had at #Data16. The idea behind these posts come from the lyrics I'm a little yellow fish in the deep blue sea, won't somebody come and help me? Let's start from the …