Here is a Tableau Quick Tip (QT) on creating a Bullet Chart with floating icons. It is inspired by Toan Hoang’s work. So in less than 5 minutes, we will be building this cool data visualization. We will be using Sample Superstore for this example Calculated Fields Create the following Calculated Fields …

Assume We have a Table as shown below I drag State to the Filter and choose Alabama. We see New York is ranked 1. After Alabama is selected, we see Alabama is re-ranked as shown below.

While making dashboards for your clients, you might want to do a Proper or Sentence Case for Detailed Reports which can consist of Names, Places, Teams, etc. I am here to tell 3 Methods for doing a Proper Case in Tableau. 1. Oldest Method Earlier versions of Tableau did not have Proper Function…

In the earlier version of Tableau, no string function could do a Title or Proper case. People used to combine the logic of different functions like RIGHT(), LEFT(), UPPER(), LOWER(), etc. Tableau has introduced a Title Case Function called PROPER() which can be used to convert any String to a…

The basic Top N filter can be easily computed with Top N Set, Rank, Top N Filter, and Index. How can you compute Top N based on a given condition? …

I will show you how to create Toggle Buttons for Dimensions and Measures in Tableau with the same technique. For Measures Create a Parameter Sales/Profit We need 2 Calculations. Toggle Measure

Do you know SWD challenge? It is a community initiative by Tableau and a great place to practice visualizations. You can do the exercises, and challenges in any tool you like, Excel, Tableau, Power BI, etc. You can find the link here. In the SWD community, there was a challenge…

Note: This is just to explore and try to do something different and out of the box. It is a request from my side to always look at best practices for data visualizations before deploying this into production. Load Sample Superstore data. Create a Bar Chart by adding Region and…

As a part of my internship and training, I was assigned a course on Maven Analytics called Excel Pro Tips by Chris Dutton. I took the course and found it interesting. While doing the course, I thought, can I do the same thing in Tableau? The answer was Yes. As…