Category: Tableau
Tall Maps For Wide Screens
Resources for the “Tall Maps For Wide Screens” presentation given at London Tableau User Group in July 2020
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Tableau Certification: Everything You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask
How do you know whether your skill level is sufficient to have a good chance of passing the Tableau exams? How tough are the questions? What’s the best way to prepare? Is it even worth it? This blog offers answers to all those questions, and more…
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Getting Animated Part 3 – Scatter Plots In Tableau
Part 3 of a continuing series. An exploration of how animation affects scatter plots in Tableau, how this helps us to understand what a ‘mark’ actually is, and the varying impact of different types of filter.
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Getting Animated Part 2 – Basic Bar Charts In Tableau
The second blog in a series looking at Tableau viz animations. In this post I walk through the impacts of different filter types and sorts upon your viz, and how the new animation feature renders them.
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Getting Animated With Tableau’s New Feature – Part 1: Line Charts
Tableau’s latest release includes animated views by default. Here I walk through some of the basic changes in user experience, and show how there’s more than meets the eye to a simple-looking demo.
Note, these features are sometimes also referred to as animated transitions, mark transitions or viz animations (#vizanimations).
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GAINING GROUND: Soccer grows in the U.S.
Major League Soccer (MLS) has come a long way over the past decade. While “football” continues to dominate as the most popular sport globally, soccer has been fighting an uphill battle to match the interest of American football in the U.S. becoming the fifth most viwed sport in 2017.
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LondonTUG Big Quiz of the Year
Photos of the last #LondonTUG of 2019 after a fantastic year full of data visualisation, superb speakers and your support. Thanks a million!
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Making The Most Of Your Investment At Tableau Conference
You’ve managed to secure a week out of the office, your employer is paying for you to be in Vegas, and you have a golden opportunity to learn and develop. Better get it right, huh?
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Viz Improvements and Iterations
When you set to create a viz and during the process, you realise there are several improvements you can make, even after publishing it on Tableau Public.
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How To Add Contextual Backgrounds To Scatter Plots In Tableau
Earlier this week I created and shared a viz that used a background image to give context to the...
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The Tableau Desktop Certified Professional Exam Experience
Tips and guidance on taking the highest level Desktop exam, including the experience of taking it with online proctoring and a discussion of the exam structure.
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London Tableau User Group • March 2019
Watch Mark Jewett, Head of Product Marketing at Tableau and Corey Jones, Tableau 2018 Iron Viz Finalist presentations at March LondonTUG
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