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My Tableau Resources

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During my Datafam London presentation I briefly showed a slide with a screenshot of my RSS reader – my main source of inspiration on everything Tableau. Afterwards I have got several requests to share this list of website.

Every time I stumble upon an interesting blog (or website with a feed) I add it to my Feedly account.

For this post I have exported all these links, and I will update it regularly. If you want to share an interesting Tableau/Data/Data Visualization blog, please let me know and I will add (and follow) it!

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Drill Down in Tight Spaces

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A different way to make drill down possible/usable in a small sheet.

Sometimes you don’t have all the space to do what you want.

Or you are almost finished with a dashboard, and suddenly someone mentions: “Wouldn’t it be nice if we could drill down on this chart…” – but the sheet is just too small for another column. There are multiple ways so solve this issue – each with its own pros and cons. Viz-in tooltip (hard to read on larger drill-downs), hiding nearby sheets (tedious), enlarging the row-height (ugly when not drilled-down), misusing totals (even uglier), …

In this article I describe a different solution – which definitely has its disadvantages, but can be useful in certain situations where the drill down functionality is important.

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Line-chart: betters ways to compare years

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Line charts are one of the best and popular ways to show how data has developed over time. It’s a simple graph that is familiar to anyone, but the default generated can often be improved – either in Tableau, Excel or any other tool.

In this blog post I want to show how a relative small change in a line chart can result in a big improvement.

[part of the ‘Datafam London 2024 – Deepcleaning your dashboard’ series]

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Deep Cleaning Barcharts – part 2: Punctuated Bar Chart

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[part of the ‘Datafam London 2024 series]

In part 1 we took a look at a basic bar chart, and ended with the lollypop chart. A fun chart with one major issue: the dot obfuscates the real datapoint.

Punctuated Bar Chart

One solution for it the Punctuated Bar Chart:
We highlight the end of each bar, instead of enlarging the endpoint.

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