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#tabtips
Recently there were a flood of Tableau tips on Twitter. As Twitter isn’t fantastic at archiving Tweets, here they are: googlea A quick, clear & simple overview of custom number formats in...
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Star Ratings in Tableau
I’ve been wanting a star rating chart in Tableau for a while for my Netflix Instant Film Picker. I started out trying to use the Unicode star (★), but that would only provide whole numbers of stars...
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Exploring Data in a Single Chart
Chandoo’s excellent Excel and Data blog has a data challenge to win a Kindle. I’m not entering but thought I’d show what Tableau can do with just a few hours of work. The challenge was to create a...
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Case Shiller House Price Index
Standard and Poor’s Case-Shiller index was released today with disappointing indications of a double-dip recession, at least for the housing market. This provided an excellent opportunity to visualize...
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Slopegraphs in Tableau
In Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and recently on his blog, he discusses the use of slopegraphs to show change over time. They are highly effective because you have both the...
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Book Review: Rapid Graphs with Tableau Software
Even though Tableau has been round for a number of years now, there is a dearth of books out there to guide new users. To get the most out of Tableau, you don’t want to approach chart making in the...
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Beer and Calories and Alcohol and Calories Per Alcohol and…
How many calories do you save by drinking light beer? Or perhaps the better question, if the alcohol content is lower in light beers, how many calories am I saving to get as drunk? This visualization...
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Where to Play Blackjack in Vegas
With the Tableau customer conference fast approaching I thought a blackjack visualization was appropriate. If you play blackjack using basic strategy (hitting, standing, doubling, etc. depending on the...
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Blackjack Basic Strategy and Expected Outcomes
Following on from my post about where to play blackjack, here’s a basic strategy tester and strategy table built in Tableau. The idea is that if you play perfect strategy, you minimize the house...
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US Tornadoes 1950 to 2011
2011 was a bad year for tornadoes, and 2012 has started with some dangerous ones as well. I’ve been wanting to visualize them for a long time and finally found a source of clean data – the Tornado...
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