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Design

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Dashboards
Output and Export

Blogs

Tableau blogs with a focus on design

Other data viz blogs with a focus on design

 

Blogs on presentation and information display

 

Great Cole Nussbaumer series on design:
http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/2013/12/horizontal-logic.html

Tableau Visual Guidebook (from 2010):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/131x4pddft1qi58/Tableau%20Visual%20Guidebook.pdf

Nice book list
http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2012/01/10-books-to-help-you-think-create-communicate-better-in-2012.html

Infographics and Ideas

http://dailytekk.com/2012/02/27/over-100-incredible-infographic-tools-and-resources/

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A New Compact (Mostly) Filter Layout for Showing All the Options

I’m preparing my Tableau Customer Conference 2013 session and there is way too much material to present in the time available, so I’m killing my darlings with a couple of posts in the next few weeks.

I had a situation where my users needed to select from a basket of hospital quality measures on a dashboard, and since some of the measures were new I wanted the filter to show all of the available options, and based on the dashboard layout there wasn’t really space on either side of the view for a vertically oriented filter.

What I really wanted was to show all the options at the top of the dashboard, I ended up getting a little creative and coming up with a new  filter layout. Read on to find out how!
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