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Raising the Bar part 2 - 'Toblerone' bar charts

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

Raising the bar - Customising Tableau bar charts

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

Tableau Server 10.5 - What it means for Interactors

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

Interactor top tips and user guides

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...

Tableau exporting to PDF options

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...

Actions: Multi-selecting worksheets

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...

Disaggregating measures - Personalising content

Working in healthcare I regularly come across dashboards that aggregate a metric to a single number, quoting % compliance over a given...

Using tags to personalise content

Every time I share our use of Tableau within Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust the one thing people always say is how innovative our...

Box and Whisker plots - Changing whiskers

For my next #BestNewTableauSkill I focus on how to extend the whiskers of a box and whisker plot to incorporate the full range of data....

Renaming grand totals

This week I discovered another quick and easy Tableau functionality that I never knew existed; renaming Grand Totals and Totals. I cannot...

Creating alternating measures

My latest #BestNewTableauSkill reflects on a technique I used within this week's Makeover Monday during which people were challenged to...

Creating a Jitter Plot

A Jitter plot is similar to a box plot however it displays the data points across a random y axis; allowing you to easily distinguish...

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