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decision trees, Sankeys, flow diagrams

By Olivier Catherin, drawing on Jeffrey Shaffer’s work
http://community.tableausoftware.com/thread/154623

This entry was posted in wikicontent and tagged decision tree, decision trees, design, flow diagrams, Sankey, tips, tricks on January 13, 2015 by Jonathan Drummey.

testing Tableau for Mobile on a non-mobile browser

http://community.tableausoftware.com/docs/DOC-5346?et=watches.email.document

This entry was posted in wikicontent and tagged browser, dashboard, design, mobile, server, tips, tricks on January 13, 2015 by Jonathan Drummey.

Sunlight Foundation data viz style guide

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Very complete, fantastic ideas here on how to have an enterprise style guide. http://design.sunlightlabs.com/projects/Sunlight-StyleGuide-DataViz.pdf

This entry was posted in wikicontent and tagged aesthetics, design, guide, style, style guide on December 20, 2014 by Jonathan Drummey.

TabChat – simultaneously browse a viz & chat

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by Michael Kovner
http://tabcmd.com/tabchat-socketio-javascript-api/

This entry was posted in wikicontent and tagged chat, collaborate, collaboration, Tableau Server on December 20, 2014 by Jonathan Drummey.

A Rough Guide to Tableau Filter Actions by Peter Gilks

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http://paintbynumbersblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/a-rough-guide-to-tableau-dashboard.html

This entry was posted in wikicontent and tagged dashboard, dashboards, filter, filter actions on December 20, 2014 by Jonathan Drummey.

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