3 Ways to Make Gorgeous Gantt Charts in Tableau
Traditional Gantt charts display a mark at a start date and size the mark by duration, showing a visual connection between a starting point and an end...Read More
Chart types
3 More Ways to Make Beautiful Bar Charts in Tableau
The humble bar chart still reigns supreme when it comes to visualizing differences between categorial, or discrete, data – but it seems many...Read More
How to Toggle Weekends On and Off a Calendar in Tableau
When analyzing any data over time, it is important to understand the seasonality or natural ebbs and flows of the data. For many businesses, these...Read More
Tableau Hack: How to Dynamically Highlight Selections in Connected Scatter Plots
Connected scatter plots can be an extremely powerful chart type when trying to compare relationships between two measures and how their performance...Read More
3 Ways to Make Powerful Pareto Charts in Tableau
Pareto charts – named for the Pareto principle inspired by Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto – help visualize the dimension members causing the...Read More
How to Make a Polygon Scatter Plot in Tableau
Scatter plots are a great way to explore correlations and visually identify outliers in your data. But what if your end user is tired of the...Read More
3 Ways to Make Wonderful Waterfall Charts in Tableau
Waterfall charts visualize the individual categorical or time period contributions to a running total and are one of my favorite choices for analyzing...Read More
How to Make Unit Charts with Continuous Measures in Tableau
Unit charts – or stacked bar charts made up of equal-sized marks – take the benefits of the bar chart and add a practical design aesthetic by...Read More
Innovative Tableau: How to Add Vertical Lines to Connect Slope Graphs
Innovative Tableau is now available for pre-order at Amazon! To celebrate, we’re sharing a full-length chapter excerpt from the forthcoming...Read More