I enjoy reading behind-the-scenes discussions of the design process, such as this one from Jerome Cukier, so here’s the background for my submission Who Shouldn’t Receive Health Coverage? to the Tableau Interactive Political Viz Contest. Continue reading
For my entry for the Tableau Interactive Political Viz Contest, I chose to create an infographic that reframes the healthcare debate in terms of a moral question: Who are we choosing to deny health coverage to? Or, more specifically, who would you deny health coverage to?
Going beyond Tableau’s built-in Quick Table Calculations can be challenging, and help you progress along the path of the Tableau Jedi. I’ve been sharing these links about table calculations a lot via email, here’s an annotated post of them: Continue reading
In Part 1 of this series, I introduced one workaround to the issue of getting Grand Totals to show a different value from the Tableau defaults, by using two worksheets – one for the detail rows and one for the Grand Total row – on a dashboard. That method has a few limitations, the biggest being that it can’t handle Subtotals. Here, you’ll learn two additional techniques for customizing Grand Totals and Subtotals in a single worksheet, and their limitations: using MIN() and MAX() to test for the Grand Total row, and using a table calculation with a duplicated dimension. Continue reading
A couple of days ago, the Andy Kriebel (follow his blog if you aren’t already) posted Dynamic axis selections with parameters in less than five minutes. This technique enables users to pick the measure they want to view. The super-short version of the instructions are: Continue reading