Excel Tip – VLookup Basics
The VLookup is the most useful and powerful function in Excel. I don't say that lightly. I've been working in Excel for nearly 20 years and have not used any ot...
Tableau Tip: Conditional Formatting with Parameters
In the last post on conditional formatting in Tableau we hard coded values into our field to add our business logic to our view. This time, we're going to make ...
Makeover Monday: Women in State Legislature
This weeks makeover comes from the National Conference of State Legislature where they show a map of how many women are serving in office in each state. ...
Tableau Tip: Conditional Formatting Highlight Cell Rules
I received a question from a student recently about how to apply Excel-like conditional formatting in Tableau. This is a great feature in Microsoft Excel in whi...
Makeover Monday: From Millions to Billions
This weeks makeover originates from Fleximize where they show how fast the top 21 richest entrepreneurs made it from millionaire to billionaire. The original vi...
Tableau Tip: Embedding a Dashboard in a Dashboard
In this Tableau Tip I will show you how to embed a dashboard in another dashboard. Why would you want to do this? Will it create a rip in the Space-time continu...
Makeover Monday: Urban Diversity in the United States
This weeks Makeover comes from a post by FiveThirtyEight on diversity in the United States among the top 100 largest cities. Mostly, the article describes how m...
Makeover Monday : Sugar Tax in the UK
This weeks Makeover Monday is sourced from a BBC article (src) describing the new Sugar Tax going into effect in the UK. The goal with this tax on sugar is to f...
Which map speaks to you?
Maps are a visually engaging and often compelling way to communicate with data. There does seem to be a divide however, among the data visualization community o...
Animate your Tableau dashboards on the Web
In this tutorial you will learn how to animate your Tableau dashboards on the Web. This will require basic understanding of Tableau — basic HTML and Javas...