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3 tips for Storytelling with Data: A conversation with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
At TC19, Tableau Evangelist Andy Cotgreave spoke with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, Founder and CEO of Storytelling with Data. Cole spoke about the importance of designing for your audience, the power of low-tech planning and storyboarding, and the critical balance between art and science.
5 tips for mobile-first dashboard design in Tableau
Tableau Zen Master, Ryan Sleeper shares his tips for creating mobile-first dashboards in Tableau, including how to: determine if you should consider a mobile-first design, scroll multiple sheets at once and eliminate default scroll bars completely, leverage tooltips, and more.
Top 10 Tableau table calculations
Here are 10 powerful examples of Tableau’s table calculations. Most require writing a simple formula of some kind. Each example contains a live example and instructions in a tabbed view. You can download any workbook for a deeper look.
5 tips for mobile-first dashboard design in Tableau
Tableau Zen Master, Ryan Sleeper shares his tips for creating mobile-first dashboards in Tableau, including how to: determine if you should consider a mobile-first design, scroll multiple sheets at once and eliminate default scroll bars completely, leverage tooltips, and more.
3 storytelling with color tips to improve your data visualization
Color is one of the easiest ways to control the style of your data visualization. A good use of color makes visuals more engaging, makes insights pop off the view, and adds some professional polish. Learn to use color in your visualizations to communicate your narrative.
How to get people to remember your visualization
Since our brains aren’t remembering things as they once did, it’s yet another challenge to us, as visual creators, to make our works memorable even against this gradient of forgetfulness, this necessity of filtering out vast rivers of content from our consciousness lest we find ourselves overwhelmed…
How to nurture a healthy Data Culture in 3 steps
Truly modern enterprises cultivate what’s increasingly being described as data culture. This begins with internal communities and user groups connected by common goals, practices, and social ties. Here’s how to nurture these communities in your organization.
Dive into details with improved table visualizations
To make tables even more powerful and flexible, we’ve added support for up to 50 columns with horizontal scrolling, and a more intuitive sorting experience.
Explain Data helps you deeply understand your data with interactive explanations
Meet Explain Data—A new AI-powered feature to help you understand the “why” behind unexpected values in your data.
Tips and tricks for filtering your data with Tableau Prep Builder
When cleaning your data, you often need to filter out values you don’t need. In this blog post, Maraki Ketema shares tips and tricks for quick filtering in Tableau Prep Builder—like one-click filtering, multi-select filtering, filtering a range of values, and more.
Starter Kit II – Revenue Cycle Management Dashboard
The Healthcare Provider RCM Dashboard is designed to provide healthcare providers of all types and sizes with increased visibility and insight into three key areas of their revenue cycle. In this blog post, Sales Consultant Jared Sathaye shares key details about the dashboard.
Best of the Tableau Web: Resources for learning and iterating
If you’ve ever thought about beginning a Tableau content channel—on a blog, on YouTube, etc. now is as good a time as any to start. Check out this month’s round-up for resources for learning and iterating.

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