Category: Featured

  • Tableau Hyper API now on Apple Silicon

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    The June 2024 release of the Hyper API (version 0.0.19484) is available – and it now finally supports Apple Silicon!

  • Weather Forecast dashboard in Tableau

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    It’s just a couple of weeks before TC24 in San Diego… So we want to know what the weather is out there! Or at home. Or any other place in the world. What better than building your own weather forecast in Tableau!?

  • Custom Tableau Shapes on maps – beware!

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    The ‘shapes’ functionality in Tableau is a nice way to enhance and personalize a visualization. But be aware what exactly you are decoration – especially on maps.

  • Top 2000 of 2023 – what stood out?

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    The Top 2000 of Radio 2 (a populair Dutch radio station) has been broadcast for the 25th time – and traditionally I am trying to turn this into a ‘different’ interactive data visualization…

  • Dynamic value format – Better labels in Tableau

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    Labels are often an after-thought for many users – we don’t like them, but are necessary. Using some simple steps we can create better labels which are easier to interpret for the users of the dashboard. [This blogpost is part of a series tips tricks, as being presented at VizIt Berlin 2023]

  • Featured Forum Ambassador

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    Tableau has created a nice blog post on Tableau Forum Ambassadors. It describes what these ambassadors do, how they can be used on the Tableau journey,

  • Tableau’s Order of Operations

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    The order of operations in Tableau refers to the sequence in which the software processes the data and calculations in a given worksheet or visualization. The order of operations in Tableau is the order in which Tableau performs its various actions. An action is mostly identified as a filter, but can also be a calculation…

  • Map Layers in Tableau – step by step (or layer by layer)

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    The Tableau 2020.4 release comes fully-loaded with tons of great features, including several key updates to boost your geospatial analysis. In particular, the new multiple marks layers feature lets you add an unlimited number of layers to the map. This means you can visualize multiple sets of location data in context of one another, and…