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Tableau Container Art – 4 examples of formatting dashboards without images

2025-08-28 by Johan de Groot

Tableau containers don’t exactly have the best reputation. Most people either ignore them or wrestle with them. But once you actually get along with containers (and their friends: borders, background colors, and padding), they turn into your dashboard’s interior designers.

No images were used during the making of these dashboard elements!

In this post, I’ll show you four small but powerful ways to use the Tableau containers to make your dashboards look sharper, cleaner, and maybe even a little more fun.

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Line-chart: betters ways to compare years

2025-01-23 by Johan de Groot

Line charts are one of the best and popular ways to show how data has developed over time. It’s a simple graph that is familiar to anyone, but the default generated can often be improved – either in Tableau, Excel or any other tool.

In this blog post I want to show how a relative small change in a line chart can result in a big improvement.

[part of the ‘Datafam London 2024 – Deepcleaning your dashboard’ series]

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Top 2000 of 2023 – what stood out?

2023-12-31 by Johan de Groot

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…

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