As a reminder, our Tiny Tableau Tips blog posts are comprised of tips shared by others on social media that we are just providing a more per...| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
I’m so excited!!! With the release of Tableau 2024.3, Tableau now fully supports seven new fonts!!!| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
In March, 2023, I wrote a blog about embedding social media in Tableau . In that post, I covered embedding Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, ...| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
Today, I’m honored to be collaborating on a post with the inimitable Lisa Trescott. If you don’t know Lisa, then where have you been? She’s ...| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
If you didn't alread y know, Steve Wexler , Amanda Makulec , Andy Cotgreave , and Jeff Shaffer are working o n another book. I was luc...| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
We are incredibly excited to have Yovel Deutel join us today for a guest blog. Believe me when I tell you it’s going to blow your mind!! Aft...| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
We’re once again thrilled to have a guest blog post from our regular contributor, Kasia Gąsiewska-Holc . Based in Poland, Kasia works remot...| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
Alright, I am back with 10 more Tableau Tips and Techniques. Be sure to check out the entire series on our website. Many of our tips in this blog post will focus on speed...just some quicker ways of doing things in Tableau.| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
I really don't like stacked bar charts - they have so many inherent problems. But sometimes, they are, in fact, the best chart for the job. But when I design a stacked bar chart, I take numerous steps to make the chart the most insightful and easy to understand as possible. I've spoken about many of these techniques in past blog post and presentations and I will refer to those today, plus I'll add in one technique that I think takes it to the next level - allowing a user to toggle between con...| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
Kevin and I are pleased to welcome back Kirk Munroe for another guest post. Kirk lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and is a business a...| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
I've run across dozens of situations where I needed to provide important information to end users and force them to read it before interacting with a dashboard. For example, let's assume that the new year 2024 has begun and the business has decided to change how targets are structured. For that reason, the data in the dashboard will not be updated for the entire month of January and will continue to reflect data for the previous month (Dec 2023). If users are accustomed to seeing data for the...| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
When you’ve used Tableau for long enough, you will inevitably run into a situation where you want some text element to wrap but, whatever ...| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
Update June 10, 2024 : We were so blown away by the response to this training. Within a week, we had over 100 people hold their seats!! We'v...| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
The general consensus in data visualization is that tables aren’t great. This is because they don’t leverage any preattentive attributes ....| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
In our recent Tableau Bootcamp, Ken was showing some sorting options when a client, who had a good bit of Tableau experience, asked, "when sorting, I always chose 'Nested', but you chose to sort on a 'Field' - what's the difference?" Honestly, neither of us really knew. Dangit. I really hate when I get stumped and Ken does too...and he stumped us both! We told him we would look into it and get back to him...and Ken pushed forward with the class. Of course, it was driving me crazy so I looked ...| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
As a reminder, our Tiny Tableau Tips blog posts are comprised of tips shared by others on social media that we are just providing a more permanent home for. For more information on how #tinytableautips came to be, check out Round 1. In Round 5, we will be featuring tips from Vince Baumel, Whitney Wood, Brittany Rosenau, Elisa Davis, and Tore Levinsen.| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that Kevin regularly shares fantastic tips. I have only ever written one tips blog mysel...| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
That title is a bit of a mouthful and this may seem like a somewhat niche topic, but if you’ve ever tried to connect to a csv from the web, ...| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
Have you ever built a line chart that simply looks like a flat line and provides very little value? Take the following line chart for example:| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
I love actions in Tableau. They are such a great way of adding interactivity in an intuitive way. I use actions in almost every dashboard ...| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
This is a guest blog post is from Damola Ladipo. Based in Washington DC, Damola works as a Senior Data Visualization Specialist for DevTech Systems at USAID Data Services. Damola is a Tableau Public Ambassador, a 7x Viz of the Day winner, and one of the most amazing Tableau Public authors out there. And if you thought his work in Tableau was amazing, wait until you read his writings - wow! We are super excited and honored to welcome Damola as a guest blogger on our site...and he has an open ...| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau
In November, Jennifer Dawes issued a challenge on Twitter (Yeah, I know the name changed, but I’m gonna keep calling it Twitter…). She wa...| The Flerlage Twins: Analytics, Data Visualization, and Tableau