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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. Sometimes this can be technically difficult, with Tableau placeholders often being the only solution. I understand many visualisation purists don’t like tables but sometimes it is the best way to [...]
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 [...]
Fix the number of pages to export pdf from Tableau
Sometimes download / export to pdf is a requirement of your Tableau dashboard. Whether it's using the Tableau Server download button or downloading the pdf from Tableau Server using the URL the appearance is important. Components should fit cleanly on their page. For example splitting a [...]
Tableau Developers – where should they sit within an organisation?
Often large organisations struggle with where Tableau developers should sit within the organisation. This could also apply to any other reporting software, the likes of Power BI, Qlik, etc. As some technology is involved (i.e. Tableau) there is often a strong argument to lump it in [...]