The recency of the data your dashboard is displaying can be one of the most important pieces metadata on a dashboard. Users of dashboards will undoubtedly, at some point in time, have the question go…
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Mimicking Drop Shadow on Popup Boxes in Tableau
Tableau, while allowing a great range of formatting options, is limited in options specifically for making things look nicer. Well, that isn’t entirely fair; but there are a lot of things it can’t do that…
Setting parameter values based on other parameters using Actions and custom buttons
In the world of Tableau, the power of Parameters is well known. Parameters can be used for a plethora of ways to enhance interactivity and user experience, but sometimes you run in to situations where…
Data-Ink: Applications in Modern Business Analytics
“Data-Ink?” you say? It’s an odd name, I agree, but what it represents is fundamental to excelling in visual analytics. Data-Ink is a concept introduced by Edward Tufte in his 1983 classic The Visual Display…
How to Improve a War Board
War boards are commonplace in the modern data-driven business these days. They’re a powerful tool to help spot trends, find anomalies, track progress, and satisfy one’s hunger for numbers. What are war boards? They are…
Designing Great Dashboards
Function over form. This is the mantra repeated by all great dashboard and report developers, and for good reason. But does this principle mean that form should suffer? And could it be possible to extract…