Tableau

Refreshing Real-Time Data in Tableau: Adding a Dashboard Button for Dynamic Data Updates

Learn how to refresh real-time data in Tableau and add a custom dashboard button for dynamic updates in this post. Discover the benefits of refreshing data, how Tableau’s caching mechanism works, and how to create a mock chart button and add actions to the dashboard to update the data on demand. Improving the accuracy of your data, increasing efficiency, and enhancing the user experience are just a few of the advantages that come with refreshing your data in real-time.

How I built my own Stock Watchlist Dashboard in Tableau via Google Sheets

Are you into investing? Or maybe curious about how a part of the stock market is doing? An interactive stock dashboard might be the ideal project for you. Tableau is a data visualization software that allows you to make interactive charts, graphs, and dashboards using data from all kinds of sources.It allows you to mix, […]

An Inventory Dashboard in Tableau inspired by … pizza

I’ve been playing with AIs lately to generate images of dashboards. I know, fun. Right? While I don’t think that these tools will take over our jobs like I scared my friend Ludovic here, I do believe they are spectacular in a way that they can help with inspiration. Business dashboards are sometimes dull, and […]

Tableau Case Study: Chaoly unleashes Chinese Social & eCommerce Analytics

A look behind the scenes at how we helped Chaoly use Tableau to bring data to life.

Juicy details about goals, challenges, and factors that have contributed to success.

We share the full list of dashboards that reached the clients’ screens.

Dealing with common Scatter Plot issues in Tableau

I have the bad habit of revisiting things I’ve built with a critical eye. What I love about Tableau Public is that we can let visualizations fly and observe how people react to them. The key thing for me is perspective. The ability to not take feedback personally is essential! I believe we should try […]

Filter ranges in Tableau with Parameter Action Intervals

Say what? What I am trying to achieve is quite simple: offer the ability to filter a range using parameters, make it easy to use and give it a clean look. Before parameter actions (pre Tableau 2019.2) we would do something along the lines of: The obvious problem with this approach is that the start […]

Customer Demographics: Using Data Visualization for Business Understanding [Visual Analysis Series]

“Know your customer!” This might be the most common business advice out there. We read about it on blogs, social media, we see it in presentations, we hear it from experts. I’m not too fond of this advice. It makes me cringe when I hear it. Mainly because it leads to ambiguous questions like “how?” […]

Evolution and Variation with “line & slope” charts in Tableau

Love line charts? Love slope charts? Why not put them together? In this article, I am going to show you why this is not always a good idea and some good use cases of how they could work well. People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They’re wrong. With computers you make mistakes […]

9+ reasons on why Tableau is extraordinary

The first time I had the chance to test the tool, I didn’t see it. Fast forward to the present, and I am using Tableau every day. I can’t imagine life without it!

I decided to expand on the reasons I believe this software is extraordinary. I hope this article will help some of you avoid making the same mistake I did.

Parameter Actions and Toggle Containers – New levels of interactivity in Tableau 2019.2

Tableau is making progress towards better interactivity.

After the introduction of Set Actions in 2018, they are taking it up a notch with Parameter Actions and with the ability to show/hide dashboard containers (toggle).

In this article, we are showing how these work and we share some ideas on how you can make use of them.