This post explores different parameter configurations and the resulting user interface elements that are available for each, then shows how a parameter can be used to swap the visible chart on a dashboard.
Swap Charts with a Parameter
Creating Charts within a Hexmap
In this guest blog post Tamás Varga explains how you can create charts within a hexmap; a technique he used for a recent #MakeoverModay visualisation. Tamás also shares some of his design process and sources of inspiration.
Hierarchical Selections in Tableau
This post explores an approach for implementing hierarchical selections in Tableau which can be used for filtering and highlighting.
Previous_Value Table Calculation
The PREVIOUS_VALUE table calculation can be used to make custom versions of running sum calculations and generate comma separated lists of items. This blog gives an overview with these and other examples.
Tableau Animation Core Concepts
What is a mark ID? How are they created and how to they impact animation in Tableau? How do you create custom animations? This post aims to answer these questions and provide an understanding of the core concepts of animation in Tableau.
Creating a Chord Diagram with Tableau Prep and Desktop
Chord diagrams show, in a circular form, the inter-relationships between entities in a matrix. This post describes a method for creating a chord diagram using Tableau Prep and Desktop templates.
Creating Drill-Down Tables with Parameter Actions
This post walks through how to create a drill-down table in Tableau so you can see different levels of granularity at the same time as well as how to create a custom button to go back to the default view.
How has the UK responded to lockdown?
This blog post walks through some of the design and UX choices in making this visualisation about how different areas of the UK have responded to lockdown.
Creating Two Colour Area Charts
This blog posts steps through how to create a two-colour area chart, with a different colour for positive and negative values.
Creating a Selection Panel with Parameter Actions
This post walks through how to create a selection panel using parameter actions, storing all selected items in the same parameter and giving feedback when the max number of items have been selected.
Grouping Data into Custom Time Bins
For a recent project I had to group my data in to custom time bins, for example, 30, 60, 240 mins etc. In this blog I show two methods to do this.
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