Antichaos
Data Visualisation, Tableau & Data Services
With Tableau Conference 2026 in just a few weeks, a special event was organized by Tableau at Tableau (Salesforce HQ Amsterdam): Datafam Day.
Not to be confused by Datafam Europe (from last december), Datafam Day was an evening with very interesting sessions from Visionaries and Ambassadors about the latest and greatest developments from Tableau (earlier that week also in London).
[Read more…] about Datafam Day 2026 – AmsterdamTableau dashboards often contain functional, but visually not really exciting navigation. Until recently, creating a modern menu meant floating objects, images, and/or tricky workarounds.
With the new rounded corners feature in Tableau 2026.1, you can now build cleaner, intuitive navigation bars that highlight the active item while keeping the others flat, just like the pill-style menus common on the web. In this post, I’ll show you how to set it up step by step and avoid the common pitfalls along the way.
Instead of the classic, rigid button layouts, you can now create modern navigation bars that feel much closer to what users expect from contemporary web and app design.
It’s a subtle change, but it makes dashboards feel more polished, more intentional, and ultimately more user-friendly.
[Read more…] about How to create pill-style navigation in TableauI’m incredibly excited to share that I’ve been selected as a 2026 Tableau Visionary.
While the title is a huge personal milestone, the real momentum doesn’t come from the individual recognition – it’s the company I’m keeping. There is something incredibly humbling about being placed in the same league as this cohort.
[Read more…] about Tableau Visionary 2026With Tableau 2026.1, a major new feature has arrived. You can now bring fresh, live data from web services directly into your dashboards – no scripts, no intermediate databases, and no manual imports required.
Whether you want to monitor the latest sales from your CRM, track website visits in near real-time, or display the current weather for operational planning, the REST API Connector makes it simple to integrate external data into Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud.
This feature is particularly useful for analysts who need near‑real‑time operational data (CRM updates, event logs, weather, IoT signals) without traditional ETL workflows.
[Read more…] about Tableau REST API Connector: Add Live Web Data to Your DashboardsVersion 2026.1 of Tableau is released with – among other features and improvements – Rounded Corners! A long awaited feature by many, with some doubts on the necessity by others…
According to the New Features list:
[Read more…] about Rounded Corner Maps in TableauSet a corner radius for dashboard objects directly in Tableau Desktop and Web Authoring. Say goodbye to jumping through hoops with annotations or images. Just set the radius value to create a simple rounded corner or a more extreme corner radius to create different shapes.