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Tableau Date Calculations: When Close is Good Enough

So you want to compare sales data from the most recent period to the same period last year. That sounds easy enough.

Set Actions: Running the action and clearing the selection explained.

  How to use Set Actions in Tableau Desktop

Tableau Dashboard Layout Containers - How to make them work every time

When creating dashboards in Tableau Desktop, many of us use Layout Containers to arrange our objects in a neat and lined up, but find the topic of...

USE TABLEAU TO MAP YOUR NEXT ROAD TRIP

Tableau 2020.2 - New Features Round-up

Hello! Welcome to our super-quick round-up of the most exciting new features that arrived with the latest release of Tableau desktop, Tableau 2020.2!...

Geocoding with R in Tableau

Geocoding with R in Tableau Mapping engine in Tableau Tableau has a brillaint mapping engine where you can map all the roles in the drop-down menu...

When to use a step or a jump line? (and stop lying about what's in your warehouse...)

Tableau first released step and jump lines back in 2018.1, when transparent filters and worksheets were still on the wishlist. Since then, Tableau...

More than just bar charts

Every visualization is nothing more than a scatterplot. A cloud full of dots. If we connect these dots in the right order, we can actually build...

Quick Tip: Performance Optimization when Using Parameters and Extracts

This is a short post with a useful recommendation regarding performance when working with parameters and extracts in Tableau. One of the common uses...

Funky color palettes in Tableau Desktop

Most people working with Tableau are aware of the possibility to create custom color palettes, as documented in this article by Tableau. We are able...

Clean Up Your Tableau Workbooks with this Simple Trick!

With this simple trick, you can tidy up your Tableau workbooks faster than I can say "clickbait title!"