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Tableau Tip | How To Build A Racing Bar Chart With ANY Dataset

Tableau Tip | How To Build A Racing Bar Chart With ANY Dataset

by Kieran Adair | Sep 5, 2021 | Kieran Adair

Racing Bar Charts are an engaging way of demonstrating and comparing data for different dimensions over time. If done right, they can tell incredibly compelling stories – like this one, which shows the rise and fall of different video game consoles from 1971...
Alteryx Tip | Teach Yourself To Web Scrape Using These 12 Data School Tutorials

Alteryx Tip | Teach Yourself To Web Scrape Using These 12 Data School Tutorials

by Kieran Adair | Sep 2, 2021 | Kieran Adair

Web scraping (or data scraping) is the process of collecting, transforming and storing content from the internet for later analysis. Think about it like copying and pasting a few paragraphs from a website into Word, but on a bigger scale. As the volume of data stored...
Tableau Tip | How To Add A Hover Button To Your Dashboard

Tableau Tip | How To Add A Hover Button To Your Dashboard

by Kieran Adair | Sep 1, 2021 | Kieran Adair

Hover Button’s are a great tool to have in your Tableau arsenal – something that allows you to expand the content and context of your dashboard without cluttering your user’s view. Enabling this type of exploratory analysis is one of the key...
Tableau Tip | How To Visualise Survey Data With A Diverging Likert Chart

Tableau Tip | How To Visualise Survey Data With A Diverging Likert Chart

by Kieran Adair | Sep 1, 2021 | Kieran Adair

Likert scales are one of the most commonly used survey question types – especially in marketing, customer satisfaction, and opinion surveys. They are used to understand people’s opinions and attitudes to a topic or subject matter. The most common Likert...
Tableau Tip | Creating A Three Tier Drill Down Map

Tableau Tip | Creating A Three Tier Drill Down Map

by Kieran Adair | Aug 31, 2021 | Kieran Adair

Drill down maps are a great way of encouraging interactivity with geographic data. For example, if you’re creating a sales dashboard for a large retailer, you could break down sales by country, then by state, then by city, allowing your user to click down to...
Tableau Tip | Creating A Dynamic Bar Chart With Set Actions

Tableau Tip | Creating A Dynamic Bar Chart With Set Actions

by Kieran Adair | Aug 28, 2021 | Kieran Adair

Interactivity is a core component of good Tableau dashboards. It creates a better user experience, and can help your audience find deeper insights in their data. In Tableau, one way of introducing interactivity is through Set Actions. A quick overview of Set Actions...
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