Category: Tableau

  • Tableau Ambassador 2021

    Honored and proud to be selected a 2021 Tableau Ambassador! Looking forward to work, learn and share ‘all things Tableau’ with even more people. Thanks Tableau, and congratulations to all new and returning Tableau Ambassadors. More information on all Tableau Ambassadors 2021 can be found here: https://www.tableau.com/about/blog/2021/9/congratulations-and-welcome-2021-tableau-ambassadors

  • Weather Forecast in Tableau

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    The most talked about topic in the world is probably the weather. And if you want to talk about, you need to know the data 😉 This dashboard show the weather forecast in my location for today and the next 4 days.

  • Top 2000 visualisation – edition 2020

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    The Top 2000 edition of 2020 isn’t a fancy data visualisation with extensive data-preparation and/or mathematical formulas like last year, but a visualisation with the emphasis on what you can do with relative simple graphical elements. This approach can change the look and feel of a ‘standard’ dashboards significantly Click on the screenshot to view…

  • 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…

  • Comments in Tableau

    When you are creating a calculated field in Tableau Desktop, Server of Prep you might want to create some comments to help others see what the purpose of this field is, or explain the calculation that you made. In other situations you might want to test a line of code, and disable a previously written…

  • 502 errors on datasource downloads from Tableau

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    If you experience 502 errors when downloading large datasets from Tableau Server – either in a browser or Tableau Desktop – you might occur problems not related to Tableau Server, but a proxy or gateway in front of the server.

  • Save a Tableau workbook if you can’t save it

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    A small tip for a situation that is occurring once in a while to me (probably Mac specific): If you have been working on a Tableau dashboard for quite a while, you suddenly can’t save the workbook anymore. ‘Save’ results in a popup which disappears very quickly, and ‘Save as’ shows the ‘save as’ dialog…

  • The Big Bang Theory meets other shows

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  • Look who’s talking

    Female actors are getting more important in movies. In 2016 we had Jyn as the most important Star Wars character on the Rogue One posters, Harley Quinn was the leader of the Suicide Squad according to the posters and Black WIdow seemed to be one of the most important character in the Marvel universe. But…

  • Look who’s talking

    Vrouwen worden steeds belangrijker in films. In 2016 hadden we Jyn als het belangrijkste karakter op de Star Wars posters, Harley Quin leidde zo’n beetje de Suicide Squad en Black Widow is al weer een paar jaar geleden neergezet als power-vrouw in het Marvel universum. De ruimte die ingericht wordt op de posters voor vrouwen…