Simon BeaumontAug 233 min#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 gl...
Simon BeaumontAug 83 min#IronVizLearning - Simplifying Your Date AxisFor the last 4 weeks the #Datafam has been busy! Busy creating 370 diverse and inspiring #IronViz visualisations as part of the 2020 glob...
Simon BeaumontMay 123 minTableau top tip : Non-scaffolding date trickLet me set the scene. You are creating a time series analysis, analysing sales by month year and for some of your metrics your data start...
Simon BeaumontMay 111 minTableau Top Tip: Accessing your colour palettes without a dimension or measureThis 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 ...
Simon BeaumontApr 282 minHeat highlights, and I don't mean MiamiHeatmaps have long been recognised as an effective way of showing variation across two dimensions. There are many fantastic examples of h...
Simon BeaumontMay 24, 20192 min'Pinning' your arc linesApologies in advance, anyone reading this expecting to learn the complex art of drawing arc lines on a map in Tableau will be sorely disa...
Simon BeaumontMar 22, 20191 minHow 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, rang...
Simon BeaumontMar 9, 20191 minWhoa! 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 i...
Simon BeaumontMar 1, 20193 minEnabling interactive maps through transparency, layering and imagesConfession time. This post has actually been six months in the making and the original idea came from my ‘Rainforest of the seas’ IronViz...
Simon BeaumontDec 7, 20185 minSo 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...
Simon BeaumontSep 13, 20187 minGiving the H2O down on my IronViz submissionBefore 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 w...
Simon BeaumontJul 21, 20182 minUsing dual, un-synchronised, axis for flexibly placed labelsDuring a recent Makeover Monday I wanted to create a small multiple chart to visualise the individual player salaries for each NBA team d...
Simon BeaumontJun 13, 20182 minUsing a reference line as a divider between 2 shape marksI recently released a viz analysing the 2018 F1 World Championship. https://public.tableau.com/profile/simon.beaumont#!/vizhome/TheFormul...
Simon BeaumontMay 11, 20183 minCentring your highlighted jitter pointWeek 19 of Makeover Monday in 2018 challenged people to visualise the toughest sports, according to survey data conducted by ESPN. With t...
Simon BeaumontApr 27, 20181 minApplying filters - Selected sheets with a related data sourceAs Tableau has evolved the number of options for applying filters across worksheets and data sources has increased. It is common place fo...
Simon BeaumontApr 12, 20182 minOne 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 ...
Simon BeaumontApr 9, 20182 minMargin 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 Maste...
Simon BeaumontMar 19, 20182 minMakeoverMonday - Centred doughnut chartsIn 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 w...
Simon BeaumontMar 1, 20182 minI couldn't possibly commentI have a confession to make; for 3 years I have led a Tableau Centre of Excellence and not utilised Tableau Server comment functionality....
Simon BeaumontFeb 23, 20184 minRaising the Bar part 2 - 'Toblerone' bar chartsI recently shared a blog post, 'raising the bar', within which I shared techniques to adapt the visual appearance of a bar chart in Table...
