Antichaos
Tableau Consultancy & Analytics
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?Often improving a dashboard is about small changes. Have a look a this chart:
[This blogpost is part of a series tips tricks, as being presented at VizIt Berlin 2023]
[Read more…] about Improve layout of percentags – Better labels in TableauDatefilters 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)
[Read more…] about Better datefilters in Tableau
I visualized the Top 2000 as broadcast by Radio 2 for the 11th time (I believe) in a different way using Tableau.
[Read more…] about The Radio Top 2000 visualised – edition 2022The order of operations in Tableau refers to the sequence in which the software processes the data and calculations in a given worksheet or visualization.
The order of operations in Tableau is the order in which Tableau performs its various actions. An action is mostly identified as a filter, but can also be a calculation or another Tableau feature which is computed.
This is Tableau’s Order of Operations:
It shows in which sequence filters are handled with by Tableau: first extract filters, than datasource, context, dimension, measure and table calculation filters. The ‘inserts’ on the right are