Ok, this week is all about working with Containers. Now that we have the ability to control inner/outer padding on Dashboard objects, as well as color, we can really make our dashboards shine without having to float everything. Note on the week, the data/charts don’t really matter, I honestly just threw some on the dashboard. […]
Week 51: Container Fun! Read More »
Continuing in line with Ann, I thought it would be great to do another challenge around Set Actions. I’ve used “Cross-Highlighting” in Tableau before, but it required a lot of Data Modelling, and was extremely slow on the Public Servers. But with Set Actions, what use to be a very complicated task, can now be
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Getting a little bit tricky this week, mostly because I won’t be at TC this year….. 🙁 This week we are going to do some radial mapping in Tableau. While extensions might replace this trick, I think it’s still useful when analyzing locations within N miles of a target location. Requirements This is a tricky
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Hello Again! This week I am back with a fairly simple challenge, but one that has a few (I believe) useful tricks that could help spice up your next viz. The tricks used here are geared toward design, but have additional benefits. Requirements: Dashboard size: 1000 x 800 Create a Parameters for metrics Sales|Profit|Quantity Create
WEEK 39: VERTICAL LABEL AND 3 MARKS Read More »
