Tableau Public – You haven’t seen anything yet

Thus far we haven’t mentioned a lot about Tableau Public on this blog but today’s game changing upgrade more than deserves its own post and hopefully many more to come.

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Scaling a Filled Country by a Measure…Sort Of

An attempt using the new filled map mark type in Tableau v7 to create a map of countries scaled by any measure. A good first attempt but still some room for improvement.

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Creating a Compact & Ordered Table in Tableau

We all know how great Tableau is at visualising complex data, however there are certain times when just want a simple grouped table, usually to become a filter on a dashboard. Tableau’s Index function allows us to do exactly that and a whole lot more.

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Show Me! - When less is definitely more

I know there are people out there who look at the 'Show Me!' button in Tableau and think it looks small and limited when compared to Excel's chart wizard library (I know this because I was once one of these people when I first saw Tableau). What worries me now however is there are still people who directly compare them, who even go as far as to dismiss Tableau because it doesn't have this big charting library. If you're in the group of people who think Excel can create more charts than Tableau then please put your Starbucks coffee down and read on.

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UK Mapping with Tableau V6.1–What’s changed?

Tableau have added UK mapping 'out of the box' in the upcoming new release (V6.1). What does this really mean to users of UK mapping, and what is left for us to do? Problem solved? Not quite...

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