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For most Tableau authors, typography is not the first thing they think about when they develop a dashboard. Luckily, Tableau…

The Generate Rows tool in Alteryx is a great tool to explore when you need to expand your dataset. When…

Dynamic parameters were introduced with Tableau Desktop version 2020.1 and rightfully created a lot of buzz among Tableau authors due…

In this post you will learn how to: (1) create static sets, (2) create dynamic sets, (3) use sets as…

In his 1983 book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte introduced the concept of the data-ink ratio in…

This is the first in a five-part series on getting the most out of text in Tableau. For future updates,…

Tableau sets allow you to isolate specific segments of a dimension, which can then be used in several different ways…

Tableau comes with several preset calculations that you can compute with the numbers on a view including running total, difference,…

My favorite question to ask when I present on Tableau and data visualization is: Why do you visualize data? This…