Dashboard Week Day 5 – US Interstate Traffic Flow
Finally. The the last day of dashboard week had DS12 looking at interstate traffic flow in the US. Check out what I came up with here. No web scraping or APIs…
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March 1, 2019
Dashboard Week Day 4 – US Drought Data
The penultimate day of dashboard week has had DS12 looking at drought data in the US since the year 2000. Find my viz here. As has been a common theme this…
March 1, 2019
Dashboard Week Day 3 – New Orleans 311 Calls and Power BI
Today marked the midway point of dashboard week and the day of Power BI. Getting hands on with a rival software to Tableau has definitely been beneficial. I now have my…
March 1, 2019
Dashboard Week Day 2 – London Marathon
The second day of dashboard week had DS12 exploring the finishers data from every year of the London Marathon. Each of us were assigned a two letter code from either our…
February 27, 2019
Dashboard Week Day 1 – Star Wars API
Today marked the first day of dashboard week for DS12 which believe it or not I was looking forward to as a break from client projects (I’ll let you know whether…
February 25, 2019
Tableau Tip – Swapping entire views using a parameter
Sometimes it can be helpful to swap out entire views on your tableau dashboard to free up space. This walk through will show you how to use parameters to achieve this.
February 20, 2019
Tableau Tip – Setting up automatically updating views that compare year to date performance
Something we learnt last week was how to set up a chart which will compare any given measure for the current year to date (YTD) with the previous YTD. This is…
January 22, 2019
Creating effective sparklines which highlight weekly change
A sparkline is a very small chart used to show snippet trends of data such as stock market price, seasonal changes or highlighting maximum and minimum values. Usually they are drawn…
January 21, 2019
Using YoY change to colour shapes on a line chart
The final Makeover Monday of 2018 was on the average annual Christmas spending in the US. We were only provided with the year and the average spend for that year. Although…
January 8, 2019
Creating control charts in Tableau using window calculations and parameters
Control charts are used to show whether the variance in a measurement is within acceptable bounds, which can be controlled by the user. This blog provides a walkthrough guide on how to create them in Tableau!
January 6, 2019