Human Centric and Investigational Skills (Soft Skills)
[NOTE: This classification term, human centric & investigational skills, was provided to me by Bridget Cogley, Co-Founder and Chief Visualization Officer for Versalytix in 2018. Neither of us...
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Salesforce just dropped $8 billion on Informatica. Here’s why it’s key to Marc Benioff’s ambitious bet on AI agents. Salesforce already possesses an extraordinary amount of data on the world’s biggest...
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Tableau Tip #12 – MORE SECRETS FROM THE LOST TABLEAU MANUAL: FIVE MORE HIDDEN...
Here are 5 more hidden functions for you to use. CURRENT_TIME() – Returns the current time, without the date part. Example:CURRENT_TIME() = 11:22:53 AM ISNOTDISTINCT() – Checks if two expressions are...
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Tableau Tip #11 – MORE SECRETS FROM THE LOST TABLEAU MANUAL: FIVE HIDDEN...
Here is a little trick from my friend, Prasann Prem (He actually posted this on LinkedIn yesterday). Did you know there are Hidden Functions in Tableau that can make your life easier? Who knew! Here...
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Tableau Tip #10 – Custom Numeric Formatting Calculation
Vince Baumel on Feb 4, 2022: Hey #datafam, want to see another cool #TinyTableauTip? Here’s a single calc solution for converting a numeric string field (that may or may not end in K, M, or B) into a...
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Tableau Tip #9 – Drag Portions of Calculations
Lindsey Poulter (@datavizlinds) used a great technique in #IronViz 2019 that a lot of people saw for the first time. Did you know that you can ALSO drag a selected portion of a #Tableau calc WITHIN...
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Tableau Tip #8 – More Secrets from the lost Tableau manual: Navigate and...
Options for navigating, viewing, and organizing sheets You can navigate and organize sheets in a workbook using the sheet tabs, the filmstrips, or the sheet sorter. There are three ways to navigate...
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Tableau Tip #7 – Secrets from the lost Tableau manual: Tableau aliases are...
Here is a little trick most Tableau users do not know. Whenever you alias a measure in Tableau, those aliases are tracked in the Measure Names field in the Data Pane. Better yet, you can use the Data...
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Tableau Tip #6 – Get the Original Data File from a Tableau .twbx File
Let’s say someone sent you a Tableau .twbx file, and you want to get the original data file from it. To do this, you first you need to unpack the file. In File Explorer, go to the folder that contains...
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Tableau Tip #5 – Use Parameters to Show and Hide Filters
Use a Tableau parameter to show and hide filters, No “Blank” cover-up. 1. Create a “spacer” sheet that expands when parameter = “show”. 2. Make the container x position equal to -150. This approach...
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Tableau Tip #4 – Quickly Search for Fields
Searching for Fields. If you want to search for a field, and don’t want to drag your mouse all the way to the upper left search field, you can hold down the Ctrl key (or command on a Mac) and hit ‘f’...
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Tableau Tip #3 – Data Pane Field Search Filters
This one is from the “It was right under my nose all along!” file. Did you know you can filter to view only certain kinds of fields in the Data Pane of #Tableau? Here are the special searches you can...
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Tableau Tip #2 – GOTCHA! Data Source Filters
The journey continues. Have you ever inherited a Tableau Extract workbook or a Tableau Dashboard workbook at work? First, you probably remove all the filters and then can’t determine why the data...
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Tableau Tip #1 – Why some things look different on Tableau Server and how to...
Tableau Readers. Today is my first day on a new journey. I aim to publish 10 Tableau Tips and Tricks each month (sometimes more than 10). Some of these tips have been put aside for many years. Most...
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Tableau Community Spotlight: Revisiting the Flerlage Twins, Kevin and Ken
Hello Readers. Way back in 2018, I starting reading Tableau and Data Visualization posts (and humorous videos) from these two brothers, Kevin and Ken Flerlage. Both of them were very talented and...
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Historical Dataviz: Survivorship Bias and Getting the Data Wrong
Survivorship Bias Makes You a Poor Decision Maker During World War II, researchers at the Center for Naval Analysis faced a critical problem. Many bombers were getting shot down on runs over Germany....
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Truthful Dataviz Tips: An Interview with Aurélien Vautier
Aurélien Vautier Bio Hello, my name is Aurélien. I live in Nantes which is a small city located on the west coast of France. First, I would like to thank Michael for giving me the opportunity to...
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Yabba Dabba Data! Find me at TC23
Tableau Conference 2023 (TC23) is a little more than a week away. Like many of my fellow attendees, I will be passing out pins I made for the conference. I thought about what I wanted as a catchphrase...
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Chart Literacy: Financial Times Visual Vocabulary, Andy Kriebel and Tableau,...
I hope you enjoyed Part 2 of this series where I discussed the Financial Times Graphic Continuum developed by Dr. Jon Schwabish and designer Severino Ribecca. Later, the Financial Times would develop...
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Chart Literacy: Financial Times, Jonathan Schwabish and the Graphic...
I hope you enjoyed Part 1 of this series where I discussed Dr. Andrew Abela’s Chart Suggestions-A Thought-Starter tool for choosing the best chart to visualize your data. As I described, you would...
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