Defining Accuracy in Communication – Interpreting Beyond the Chart
She came in the room with great authority. She, a qualified interpreter, introduced herself while I watched, still a student
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Designing Dashboards that Deliver: Translating Tableau Insights for Business Users
STEAL THESE TIPS! (Not the dashboard)
You want to make an all-star Tableau dashboard, but you’re tired and the coffee maker is fresh out, save for
Continue ReadingMeasure Values, Toil, and Trouble: Avoiding the ‘Dead on Delivery’ Dashboard
Tableau has this nifty feature: measure values. Its swell companion, measure names, makes doing certain types of analyses painless. This
Continue ReadingWhat is a dashboard?
As an Tableau analyst, I feel like I answer this question quite often. And when I ask it, I get
Continue ReadingData Exploration: Using Tableau Dashboards to See and Understand your data
I love Tableau like I love Giorgio Moroder. One gave me music and both gave me insight. Tableau tells me I
Continue ReadingCome Together – (Co)Running a Tableau User Group
Meet me for 5 minutes and you’ll know straight-off I’m not the person to organize things. Brainstorm, create, cluster –
Continue ReadingTableau 10 Device Designer: Optimizing for Mobile & Getting Tableau to Fit
In the days of yore (or about a couple of weeks ago), designing for mobile meant an entirely different dashboard.
Continue ReadingRearranging Furniture: Dashboard Design, Placement & Movement
“Did you really have to move that?” It’s a common (and fair) question that applies both to my house and Tableau dashboards.
Continue ReadingAn Interpreter’s Approach to Dashboard Design
Designing a dashboard is a lot like interpreting. And anyone who has ever worked with an interpreter knows we try
Continue ReadingThe Excel Power User’s Guide to Tableau: Bring Your Towel
Far out in the uncharted plains of the Gartner BI Quadrant of the data visualization software options of the data universe lies a
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