Simon Beaumont
Your Tableau Web-Edit Playbook
Tableau describe web-authoring as: A feature that gets the most mileage out of a view or dashboard published to Tableau Server is web...
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#IronVizLearning - Dual axis labelling with Index()
Welcome to the 2nd post in my #IronVizLearning blog series, where I share what I learned during the 2020 Health and Wellbeing #IronViz...
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#IronVizLearning - Simplifying Your Date Axis
For the last 4 weeks the #Datafam has been busy! Busy creating 370 diverse and inspiring #IronViz visualisations as part of the 2020...
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Tableau top tip : Non-scaffolding date trick
Let me set the scene. You are creating a time series analysis, analysing sales by month year and for some of your metrics your data...
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Tableau Top Tip: Accessing your colour palettes without a dimension or measure
This is a quick tip I use regularly in my working day, to allow me to apply our corporate colour palette to a chart, even when the chart...
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Heat highlights, and I don't mean Miami
Heatmaps have long been recognised as an effective way of showing variation across two dimensions. There are many fantastic examples of...
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'Pinning' your arc lines
Apologies in advance, anyone reading this expecting to learn the complex art of drawing arc lines on a map in Tableau will be sorely...
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How about a second date?
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,...
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Whoa! Select colour for Measure Names, how did I miss that?
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...
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Enabling interactive maps through transparency, layering and images
Confession time. This post has actually been six months in the making and the original idea came from my ‘Rainforest of the seas’ IronViz...
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So you've taken Desktop Qualified Associate, now onto Professional!
Earlier this year, during TC Europe 18, I sat my Tableau Desktop Certified Professional exam and it was a personal highlight of 2018 when...
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Giving the H2O down on my IronViz submission
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...
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Using dual, un-synchronised, axis for flexibly placed labels
During a recent Makeover Monday I wanted to create a small multiple chart to visualise the individual player salaries for each NBA team...
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Using a reference line as a divider between 2 shape marks
I recently released a viz analysing the 2018 F1 World Championship. https://public.tableau.com/profile/simon.beaumont#!/vizhome/TheFormul...
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Centring your highlighted jitter point
Week 19 of Makeover Monday in 2018 challenged people to visualise the toughest sports, according to survey data conducted by ESPN. With...
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Applying filters - Selected sheets with a related data source
As Tableau has evolved the number of options for applying filters across worksheets and data sources has increased. It is common place...
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One Viz In Tooltip or Two?
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...
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Margin line charts? That's what I'm calling them!
On Friday 6th April 2018 I was fortunate enough to be awarded Tableau Public Viz Of The Day for my #SportsVizSunday analysis of The...
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MakeoverMonday - Centred doughnut charts
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...
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I couldn't possibly comment
I have a confession to make; for 3 years I have led a Tableau Centre of Excellence and not utilised Tableau Server comment functionality....
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