Overview So, here's why until recently I've recommended that my clients avoid large dashboards. We've been working on a collection of killer dashboards and we're all set to make a big presentation to the CEO. This thing is so high profile we get to use the executive conference room with the super bright projector and [...]
Showing Differences between Periods and Statistical Significance in Tableau Overview Addressing this scenario has been the most popular request I’ve received over the past year. Here’s a summary what my clients and students have asked: How do I show the change in Sales, Percentage of Promoters, Number of Visits, etc., between this month / quarter [...]
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Much thanks to Susan Ferrari for exposing me to the concept of Net Promoter Score, Susan Baier for encouraging me to blog about it, and Helen Lindsey for providing anonymized NPS data. Overview My wife and I recently went out to a restaurant to celebrate our anniversary. Accompanying the check was a survey card with [...]
Overview Note: I based my Tableau Conference 2015 presentation on this blog post. You can download a PDF of the presentation and the Tableau packaged workbook. Click here to see a video of the presentation. Earlier this year one of my clients was updating a collection of survey data dashboards and they wanted to revisit the [...]
“With great power comes great responsibility” -- Voltaire -- Benjamin Parker (Uncle Ben from Spiderman) Overview Recently both Ryan Sleeper and Andy Kriebel blogged about donut charts in Tableau. Figure 1 -- Donut chart courtesy of Andy Kriebel While both of them cautioned about where, when, and how best to use them, I [...]
In Part One of this series I discussed why the Tableau support community is unique and why you should care. In Part Two I shared my thoughts on the early years of the community and how one person in particular set the tone for sharing knowledge and expertise. In this final post I make recommendations [...]
In this continuation from Part One I share my thoughts on the early years of the community and how one person in particular set the tone for sharing knowledge and expertise. How did this start? There were a lot of really great people contributing to the community in Tableau’s early years. I’ve already mentioned Jonathan [...]
This is the first in a series of three blog posts that explores why what makes Tableau’s support community so special, why you should care, and what you can do to ensure that the community thrives. My sincere thanks go to Andy Cotgreave and Jonathan Drummey who reviewed an early draft and provided invaluable feedback. [...]
Finally, a good use for packed bubbles! The Problem I recently received a query from a client on how to compare responses to one question with responses to another question when both questions have possible LIkert values of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. That is, if you have a collection of questions like this: [...]
