Antichaos
Data Visualisation, Tableau & Data Services
Using the right visuals (images) on a dashboard is very important. Icons are often used go guide users into the right direction, so we don’t want to confuse them with unclear images
[part of the ‘Datafam London 2024 – Deepcleaning your dashboard’ series]
[Read more…] about Deep Cleaning: Icons
During my Datafam London presentation I briefly showed a slide with a screenshot of my RSS reader – my main source of inspiration on everything Tableau. Afterwards I have got several requests to share this list of website.
Every time I stumble upon an interesting blog (or website with a feed) I add it to my Feedly account.
For this post I have exported all these links, and I will update it regularly. If you want to share an interesting Tableau/Data/Data Visualization blog, please let me know and I will add (and follow) it!
[Read more…] about My Tableau ResourcesA different way to make drill down possible/usable in a small sheet.
Sometimes you don’t have all the space to do what you want.
Or you are almost finished with a dashboard, and suddenly someone mentions: “Wouldn’t it be nice if we could drill down on this chart…” – but the sheet is just too small for another column. There are multiple ways so solve this issue – each with its own pros and cons. Viz-in tooltip (hard to read on larger drill-downs), hiding nearby sheets (tedious), enlarging the row-height (ugly when not drilled-down), misusing totals (even uglier), …
In this article I describe a different solution – which definitely has its disadvantages, but can be useful in certain situations where the drill down functionality is important.
[Read more…] about Drill Down in Tight SpacesYou can use to create your own Christmas Movie Marathon in Tableau using this dashboard!
Based on the IMDB dataset ‘100 best Christmas movies of all time’ and some nice Tableau techniques you can determine which movies you want to watch this holiday.
Start by entering the time you can spend on movies this holiday on Step 1 (from a couple of hours to several days), and then use step 2 to select all the movies you want to see during this time.
Selections can be made on plot, but also runtime, genre and/or IMDB rating.
Ever wanted to count up or down in Tableau?
Now you can using the CountTo Viz Extension – for free!
Using this extension a dashboard will count up or down to a certain value.
[Read more…] about Tableau ‘CountTo’ ExtensionOn the 11th and 12th of November of this year a complete new Tableau event was held in the center of London: DataFam 2024.
One of the most impactful development tips I got during TC24 was a very small one, but I have used it a lot since then.
What is you have just finished your dashboard, and your manager/client/voice in you head tells you: I think the color of the charts need to be changed to pink…
[Read more…] about Change all colors at onceThe June 2024 release of the Hyper API (version 0.0.19484) is available – and it now finally supports Apple Silicon!
When building a dashboard, one of the most common elements is a date-filter. And the most used date filter is probably the infamous ‘Range of Dates’.
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!?
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.
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…
De 25e keer is de Top 2000 van Radio 2 uitgezonden – en traditiegetrouw probeer ik hier weer een ‘andere’ interactieve datavisualisatie van te maken…
Now and then you encounter data with ‘extreme values’. Values which are much larger than the other ones – and so hard to analyse.
A dataset which is skewed like that needs to have a special treatment when visualized, because otherwise the individual values can’t be identified correctly.
[Read more…] about How to visualize extreme values?Datefilters are one of the most common filters on any dashboard. They are needed to see trends, make decisions on the right period, and analyse within the right context. But most of the times these filters are not optimal – so let’s make them better (and prettier)
