Championing Change – The Solo Guide

It starts slowly; you have seen something that others are talking about. A software, or perhaps some new methodology which you think will either make your job easier, more interesting or something which has the potential to make/save some money...

Tableau Tip: 4 measures in a chart

Recently Andy Kriebel posted a great tip on how to How to Create a Combination Chart with Overlapping Bars & a Line which reminded me of something that I'd done for a Spanish blog which used something similar but within the same...

Köppen Geiger Climate Classification: Shape files in Tableau

I day dream....a lot.... Often I think about moving somewhere else in the world, I guess many people do as well, but I can obsess with details such as cost of living, practicalities of moving there. That was how I came...

Tableau Tip: Filter with lookup

It has been a while since I've shared a Tableau Tip and I thought it might be useful to share something I did on Watch Me Viz at the Tableau Conference on Tour in London. I wrote about the conference here....

Tableau Battle Floating vs Tiled

For some time now I’ve been curious about floating in Tableau. Curious to try and understand it in the same way I understand tiled and layout containers. For a new Tableau user containers may not make a lot of sense,...

MakeoverMonday: US Children Well-being

This week’s #makeovermonday was really fun and one of those where I learned the most. But first a big thank you to Michael Mixon and Jeffrey Shaffer for their help. We are so lucky to have such an awesome community...

Makeover Monday: Theft in Japan

Another week another #makeovermonday this time one which I'd sent to Andy Kriebel a few weeks ago. I like pies do you like pies? How about pie on a pie, if double pie is like a double burger it has...

DATA 16 – Tableau on Tour London

If you follow me on twitter you’d have noticed the barrage of #data16 tweets I sent last week. But you may be forgiven for not knowing what #data16 was all about. #Data16 was the twitter handle for Tableau’s On Tour...

Makeover Monday: Facebook Carbon Footprint

I'm afraid this week I hadn't had the time to do a proper write up of my process. There's a project that I'm working on which I hope will see the light of day this week. That said here's the...