Do you know how to create Dynamic TOP N in Tableau? Follow along to the video or check out the steps below. Let’s create a control to dynamically change the number of rows we want to see in our graph. Create a new parameter called “Top N” and set the type to Integer and the […]
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Do you know how to create Dynamic Categories and Legends in Tableau? Follow along to the video or check out the steps below. Dynamically selecting the measures values and legends. If you want to compare different categories values in a chart and want to select them dynamically, this is a simple and efficient way of […]
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Do you know how to compare selected and previous months in Tableau? Follow along to the video or check out the steps below. Let’s compare the selected month with the previous month. Create a calculated field named “Order Month” with the following formula: DATE(DATETRUNC(‘month’, [Order Date])) Create a parameter named “Date” with: Data type: Date […]
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In our How To Guides for Tableau Beginners we show you how to tackle some of the more tricky tasks. Getting started in Tableau is very easy and it doesn’t take long to create a reasonably good looking dashboard. It also doesn’t take very long to realise you have only just scratched the surface of […]
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If business dashboards are a thing of the future how do you build a business dashboard that really works? So many organisations are building them for internal use as well as for external use. You are probably the same. You may have a few Tableau or Power BI dashboards in your organisation that you use. […]
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Tableau is … … a Visual Analytics Platform If that’s all gobbledegook to you then you’re not alone. In more normal speak, Tableau is a piece of software from Salesforce that lets you create graphs and interactive dashboards with your data. But what is Tableau used for? It’s a bit like Excel but only 20 […]
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Do you know how to create a table with a bar chart in Tableau? Follow along to the video or check out the steps below. First, Open tableau and connect to your data. Then you’ll start by building the table. Drag and drop into the Rows shelf the date, subdivision, business unit and revenue […]
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In this quick tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a shaded map in Tableau. Tableau automatically recognizes the Country, State and City as a hierarchy and their geographical roles which makes creating a map quite easy. Also, Tableau generates the Latitude and Longitude for us, according to those geographical roles, saving us a lot […]
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Ever wondered how to show a graph in a tooltip with Tableau? In this example, I’ll show a very simple and quick example of how you embed a graph in another graph’s tooltip. Suppose you have a graph that shows the revenue and the forecasted revenue over time but I want to show more detail […]
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Have you ever struggled to create a Tableau chart with stacked bars and a line over a period of time? Open Tableau and follow these instructions: 1. Drag and drop your date pill on your Columns shelf, right click on it and select “Exact Date”. 2. Tableau will transform it in Continuous, […]
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