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Entries by Tom Brown (34)

Tuesday
Jan312012

Tableau for Excel Users – Part 1 – Recreating the pivot table

The first in a series of posts helping excel users understand Tableau functionality in Excel terms. This posts describes the recreation of a pivot table in Excel, and will be followed by more on conditional formatting, vlookups and more.

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Thursday
Jan052012

How do I get Tableau V7.0?

Tableau Version 7 is coming soon - but how do you go about getting your hands on it? And what should you worry about as you upgrade?

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Thursday
Jan052012

Filled maps in Tableau V7

Another great new visualisation type in Tableau Version 7 - Filled Maps. This posts shows that this new technique can be used for more than just maps...

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Wednesday
Jan042012

Making use of Area Charts in V7

Area charts are coming in the next release of Tableau. Version 7 is due during January 2012 - here's how to make use of area charts...

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Wednesday
Dec072011

Making Table Calculations work in Tableau

Table calculations can seem mysterious and dangerous. Mastering them can take your analysis to levels you might not have thought possible. In this post we GO BACK TO BASICS to learn how to make Table Calculations work first time, every time.

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