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How to Create a Sankey Diagram in Tableau Public
It’s now possible to create this more advanced chart type with just a few clicks in Tableau Public – at least up until the end of June, 2023. The restricted window of availability is because Tableau...
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Dashed and Dotted Line Patterns
In this post we’ll have a quick look at this new formatting feature shipping in 2023.2 that is currently in the public beta and might already be available to you if you are using Tableau Cloud,...
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Tableau Outline Spatial Function
The collection of spatial functions in Tableau expanded again with the release of version 2023.2 with the addition of two new functions: OUTLINE() – “Turns polygons (including those within...
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Multiple Values and Wildcard Match Tableau Filters
Tableau has a variety of options for filtering dimension values. After showing a filter, if you open the drop-down menu you’ll see all the various types: The image below shows what each of these types...
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Enhanced Highlight Actions
Highlight actions in Tableau are an effective way to direct the attention of your dashboard consumer to parts of the dashboard related to the mark being interacted with, for example, by hovering over...
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Dynamically Change Axis Start and End Values
The new Dynamic Axis Ranges feature in v2023.3 of Tableau enables you to change the chart axis start and end values based on parameters. Combined with parameter actions, this makes your dashboards...
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Preview Tableau Dashboards in Google Docs
One of the new features in version 2023.3 of Tableau is the ability to use Google smart chips within Google Docs to show a preview of a Tableau Cloud visualisation. What are Google smart chips? Google...
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Embed Tableau Dashboards in Salesforce
The Winter ‘24 release of Salesforce included the Tableau View Lightning Web Component allowing simple and quick embedding of dashboards from Tableau Online or Tableau Server into Salesforce Lightning...
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Filter a Tableau Dashboard using Salesforce
In my previous post I walked through how to embed a Tableau dashboard in Salesforce. In this post we’ll explore the options to filter the embedded dashboard using the Salesforce interface, for...
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Reflecting on Five Years of Blogging
I published my first post on this blog five years ago today (17 Jan 2019) while sitting in a digital nomad workspace in Canggu, Bali. I’d recently completed the 22 month (as it was then) Data School...
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