VIZIONARY

Apologies in advance, anyone reading this expecting to learn the complex art of drawing arc lines on a map in Tableau will be sorely disappointed. There are ...

Let me share one thought about Tableau before I jump into this how to, I think the way it deals with dates is superb, relative date, range of dates, discrete...

OK this may be a well known shortcut in Tableau that this particular data geek has missed during the last 5 years, but now I have found it I am one happy bun...

Confession time. This post has actually been six months in the making and the original idea came from my ‘Rainforest of the seas’ IronViz feeder entry. In th...

Earlier this year, during TC Europe 18, I sat my Tableau Desktop Certified Professional exam and it was a personal highlight of 2018 when I found out that I ...

Before I dive in (sorry, the first sentence and already I am up to two bad water related puns, please don’t reach for the X just yet) I wanted to take a mome...

During a recent Makeover Monday I wanted to create a small multiple chart to visualise the individual player salaries for each NBA team during the 2017/18 se...

I recently released a viz analysing the 2018 F1 World Championship. https://public.tableau.com/profile/simon.beaumont#!/vizhome/TheFormula12018WorldChampions...

Week 19 of Makeover Monday in 2018 challenged people to visualise the toughest sports, according to survey data conducted by ESPN. With the data being sports...

As Tableau has evolved the number of options for applying filters across worksheets and data sources has increased. It is common place for people to apply a ...

It is a given that Viz In Tooltip is a pretty amazing Tableau feature; however what if I were to tell you a visualisation could have two different Viz In Too...

On Friday 6th April 2018 I was fortunate enough to be awarded Tableau Public Viz Of The Day for my #SportsVizSunday analysis of The Masters tournaments betwe...

In this week’s Makeover Monday we were presented with a really small data set, 12 rows by 3 columns. With such limited data available I wanted to set myself ...

I have a confession to make; for 3 years I have led a Tableau Centre of Excellence and not utilised Tableau Server comment functionality. I took the decision...

I recently shared a blog post, 'raising the bar', within which I shared techniques to adapt the visual appearance of a bar chart in Tableau. Whilst the blog ...

On Monday 12th February 2018 I was fortunate enough to have my 'Need for speed' #WinterGamesViz selected as the Tableau Public Viz Of The Day. The viz analys...

Part of being a Tableau Centre of Excellence is ensuring you regularly keep your users informed of new Tableau developments, whether they be interactors or p...

Lets get one thing out the way before I go any further; Tableau is easy to use. So yes you may be thinking to yourselves why on earth would you spend time wr...

Earlier today I was helping one of our Tableau server users and they ended our phone call by saying "thank you, you've just saved me a days' worth of work". ...

This week I was working on a Tableau dashboard that consisted of 12 individual worksheets. I needed to apply actions so that when a user clicked on worksheet...