Dashboards: Dashboards are used to present one or more views, often with filters, legends, and interactivity with all views together. Dashboards help us to explain data to the audience effectively. A well-designed dashboard helps the audience to uncover key insights, and speed up decision making. Today we are going to learn about making all device compatible dashboards using device designer feature in Tableau. We are going to focus more on designing dashboards for mobile and tablets in this article. The rise of mobile devices is growing worldwide and 7 out of every 10 people are using at least ..read more

A very happy new year to all of you out there. I hope the last year was great for you all and this year brings happiness for all of you. This is my first post for this year and in this we are going to look into all the options that we encounter during publishing a workbook on tableau sever. Once you have created your workbook on tableau desktop, you can publish it on to the tableau server so that all others can have a look into the great work that you have done . To publish our workbook we need to select at the server option available at the top pane and then select publish workbook. If you d ..read more

Ever wondered how to create a dynamic reference band in Tableau . Here’s a tutorial about it using set actions. Hope you guys enjoy it ..read more

In this first connect we discussed what are parameter actions and how to use them to make our dashboard more interactive ..read more

In this blog we are going to discuss how to create a collapsible container. From version 2019.2 , tableau had added a new feature in Container options – adding a show/hide button. Using this we can control the visibility of the container with a single click. Controlling the visibility of a sheet on a dashboard is super helpful as it allows us to show the important information as well as utilize the area in our dashboard effectively. So what is show/hide container. Lets try to understand it with an example. Using our sample store data, lets create two view : 1- Sales Trend by Month This can be ..read more

This video explains the basic difference between sets and groups and where to use them depending on the scenario ..read more

In this video we will go through the feature of set action in Tableau and see how to use them in our dashbaords ..read more

This video gives an introduction to the feature of parameter actions in Tableau and how to use them in your dashboard to make them more interactive ..read more

In the earlier blogs about parameter actions we discussed several use cases like sheet swap, compare measure, swap measure , synchronized scroll and others. In case you have not yet gone through them you can find them here. In this blog we are going to discuss a super useful use case for parameter actions – Multi-select parameters. This post is inspired from the work of Lindsey Poulter. You can also check out the workbook that she has which contains some example of using parameter actions here Parameters are the most useful feature that I have come across in tableau. They take the interactivit ..read more

Explain data is a powerful feature that’s come into tableau which lets you deep dive into your data. You can use it inspect , uncover and dig deep into a mark in your viz as you try to analyse your data. When you select the mark and run Explain data , tableau builds statistical model internally and tries to propose possible explanation for the value of the mark selected. It can also utilize the information from other fields in your data which would not be present in your viz. Explain data can be used on Tableau Desktop ( public as well as professional ) , Tableau online and Tableau server . Th ..read more