by Alex Taylor-Jackson | Jul 22, 2021 | Alex Taylor-Jackson
The story I’ve always been interested in where words in English originate from. Many will know that English is a Germanic language, but due to various political changes throughout the ages (1066 for example), English vocabulary has become more Latin and French...
by Alex Taylor-Jackson | Feb 10, 2021 | Alex Taylor-Jackson
In order to convert hand-drawn SVGs (made with Inkscape) to Tableau I made an aletryx workflow that seems to work. This post from the information lab goes through steps to trace a bitmap of an image, but this is not what I want, I wanted to make a hand drawn custom...
by Alex Taylor-Jackson | Sep 30, 2020 | Alex Taylor-Jackson
This blog post is a direct follow on from my other post about tableau tips and tricks String fields as hours and minutes 1. How to make hours and minutes in Tableau using having time, or date-time type fields in Tableau. First, some data prep is required. Ensure you...
by Alex Taylor-Jackson | Sep 30, 2020 | Alex Taylor-Jackson
Hi all, this blog is about the small things in Tableau that I know, that I think beginners to Tableau might not. Selecting all of the items in a tableau action 1. Ctrl+A on the action screen can save a little bit of time. If you want everything selected, in order for...
by Alex Taylor-Jackson | Sep 26, 2020 | Alex Taylor-Jackson
Hi all, in this blog I’m going to go through the basics of Tableau padding and container tips that I’ve learnt from using Tableau for a bit. Padding To begin with, I want to talk about tableaus automatic padding when you drag a sheet onto the dashboard. Tableau...
by Alex Taylor-Jackson | Aug 29, 2020 | Alex Taylor-Jackson
Introduction If you are reading this you may have aggressively wanted to look for how to create a funnel plot in Tableau (like I did), or stumbled upon it by accident. Either way I will show in a few steps how to create a functioning funnel plot in Tableau with no...
