Track Coronavirus in the regions of England
Below we have created our first Coronavirus in England tracker. This monitors the coronavirus down to the level of Local Authority. If using a mobile phone check this version of the Coronavirus in England dashboard for mobile. If the dashboard above does not load use this [...]
Track Coronavirus in the UK
The UK government first published their official UK coronavirus / COVID-19 tracker just a few days ago. This enables following the spread of coronavirus in the UK. I have recreated the dashboard specifically for a mobile phone (last refresh 31 Mar at 1815 UK): The UK [...]
Data Insights Iceberg to manage analytics project expectations
Over the years we have completed many data and insight projects. Sometimes in the early stages of these data projects it can be a challenge to manage stakeholder expectations. Data sourcing and associated analysis can be particularly time consuming. Much of this work isn’t visible, hence [...]
Data Insights for Asset Management
A key challenge for asset managers is how to extract value from all of their asset management data. Many Asset Managers are large and globally dispersed organisations. This tends to lead lead to a lot of disparate data. All of that data generally leads to opportunity [...]
Are you a Tableau developer or tableau artist?
A browse on LinkedIn presents post after post of artistic, very well designed and highly complex Tableau dashboards. Many of the dashboards shared on LinkedIn often are more works of art than dashboards you would see in the corporate environment. The producers of this artwork are [...]
Tableau use Gantt when Square mark type coming out of cell
When adding colour to a Square mark type in Tableau the colour can spill out of the cell, covering other adjacent cells. I don't know why this happens. For example see the dashboard below. Hover over the cells and check the tooltip. There is a difference [...]
Using the Placeholder for advanced Tableau tables
Creating tables in Tableau with Excel style conditional formatting is a common ask of Tableau developers. I understand many visualisation purists don’t like tables but sometimes it is the best way to show the data. After all a heatmap is a table with colour! Those experienced [...]
Simple Conditional Formatting in Tableau
Creating conditionally formatted tables is a regular request for Tableau consultants. This is very similar to what users are used to in Excel. For example they may want some columns to be highlighted and others to be left without highlighting. Conditional formatting in Tableau is an [...]
Format Tableau subscription message
No doubt you have noticed when putting a message into a Tableau subscription in the actual email it comes out as one long string. No matter how you format the text in the Tableau subscription message box it comes out differently in the actual email. However [...]
Export a Tableau dashboard to PDF using a URL
This post explains how to export a Tableau dashboard to PDF by URL. Tableau Server offers a lot of functionality using the URL including filtering and exporting. I wrote about filtering a Tableau dashboard using the URL in a previous post. Exporting a Tableau dashboard to [...]