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Waterfall Chart using Tableau Software

Waterfall Chart using Tableau Software – Skill Pill

January 16, 2020

A Waterfall chart shows the relation of each component with the running total. This represents how each component contributes to the final sum. Each bar of the graph must be aligned with the start of the previous one, so negative values must go up and positive values must go […]

Box and Whiskers Plot in Tableau Software

Box and Whiskers Plot using Tableau Software – Skill Pill

January 10, 2020

A Box Plot or Box and Whiskers Plot is a Tableau visualization that helps us understand the spread and skewness of the data as well as detecting outliers. It is created using quartiles and the interquartile range. In order to create a Box […]

Custom Buttons to Increase or Decrease a Threshold in Tableau

Custom Buttons to Increase or Decrease a Threshold using Tableau Software – Skill Pill

December 20, 2019

A Custom Button can be used when you want the user experience with Tableau dashboard to be easier and user friendly. In order to create Custom Threshold buttons in Tableau, please follow these steps: Step 1: Connect to data In Tableau Desktop, connect to Superstore sample […]

 Z Score Test in Tableau

Z Score in Tableau Software – video Skill Pill

December 12, 2019

A Z-Score or a standard score is a statistical test that helps us see where an entity is situated compared to the mean of the population it belongs to.  Let’s see it at work in Tableau Software.

Tornado Chart within Tableau Software

Tornado Chart within Tableau Software – Skill Pill

December 5, 2019

A Tornado Chart is used when you want to compare two specific measures, within Tableau Software, for many categories where you can see the differences and what category is evolving better on those measures.

Tableau 2019.4 preview

Tableau 2019.4 – webinar

December 3, 2019

Learn about Tableau 2019.3 features and watch our video webinar. View recommendations Table improvements Webhooks Ask Data, Explain Data Improvements Extracts in the browser LinkedIn Sales Navigator connector and more Download Tableau Software

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December 1, 2019

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Cleveland Dot Plot using Tableau Software

Cleveland Dot Plot – Tableau Skill Pill

November 28, 2019

A Cleveland Dot Plot is used in Tableau when you want to see the evolution of a dimension compared to the maximum you have in the data. Watch video: In order to create a Cleveland Dot Plot in Tableau, please follow these steps: Step 1: Connect to data In Tableau Server, Online or Desktop […]

Bar Chart with Floating Icons in Tableau Software

Bar Chart with Floating Icons- Tableau Software Skill Pill

November 22, 2019

A Bar Chart with Floating Icons is used in Tableau Software when you want to see easily what the chart is showing us, without adding text that might be hard to read or bad framed in the whole graph. Watch our video. In order to create a Bar Chart with Floating Icons in […]

Combined Chart used in Tableau Software

Combined Chart used in Tableau Software – video Skill Pill

November 15, 2019

A Combined Chart is used when we want to see the relationship between two measures in the same graph. These views are good for viewing conversion rate versus sessions or perhaps profit against sales. Watch btProvider video: In order to […]

Progress Bar used in Tableau Software

Progress Bar used in Tableau Software – video Skill Pill

November 8, 2019

A Progress Bar is used when we want to see what is the evolution towards the proposed target or to compare the current period of the year with the similar period of last year. Watch btProvider video: In order to […]

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Tableau 2019.3 new features – webinar

November 6, 2019

Learn about Tableau 2019.3 features and watch our video webinar. Tableau Catalog – end to end view of data data  used by Tableau, and how it is connected to your analytics Explain Data – embedded AI-driven explanations for data causality […]

Add Custom Shape in Tableau Software

Add Custom Shape in Tableau Software – video Skill Pill

November 1, 2019

Sometimes in Tableau we need to add more graphic elements, shapes are a way of adding a visual element to a simple number in a table or in a BAN. Tableau offers a couple of shapes by default but we […]

Cohort Summarization in a Table using Tableau Software

Cohort Summarization in a Table using Tableau Software – video Skill Pill

October 25, 2019

When working with Tableau you want your selections to both be summarized and detailed. Often times we resort to different visualizations to achieve this, but for our table lovers there is a solution to have the best of both worlds. […]

track changes in our Quadrants through time

Quadrant Evolution: track changes in our Quadrants through time – Tableau Skill Pill

October 18, 2019

Quadrants help us better understand performers and non-performers and also what actions we need to take to move elements from one quadrant to another. But to see what impact our actions have we need to be able to track changes […]

create Custom Quadrants in Tableau

Custom Quadrants within Tableau Software – Skill Pill

October 4, 2019

When working with Scatter Plots a good way of grouping or segmenting your data is to create quadrants. Quadrants help us better understand performers and non-performers and also what actions we need to take to move elements from one quadrant […]

Word Cloud example using Tableau business intelligence solutions software

Word Cloud within Tableau Software – video Skill Pill

September 27, 2019

A Word Cloud is generally seen when analyzing chats, comments, etc. It is used to show the frequency of words in a text/string. But it can also be used to show other distributions and is an alternative for the Treemap […]

control the granularity of a view

Conditionally Control Granularity using Tableau Software – Skill Pill

September 20, 2019

In Tableau you can always click on a few things and see those things in another sheet against each other. But when we select too many or we don’t select anything but still want to see the overall we need […]

Expand Hierarchy in a Dashboard using Tableau Software

Expand Hierarchy in a Dashboard using Tableau Software – video Skill Pill

September 13, 2019

In Tableau when you say drilldown, hierarchies come to mind. Hierarchies are a great way for us to control the aggregation of a sheet. But when working in a Dashboard we sometimes want to expand hierarchies across multiple sheets. To […]

Small Multiple is series of similar graphs using Tableau actions

Compare Small Multiples using Tableau Software – video Skill Pill

September 6, 2019

A Small Multiple is series of similar graphs or charts using the same scale and axes, allowing them to be easily compared. To more easily compare the values in a Small Multiple chart we will make use of Tableau Actions. […]

Tableau Single Member Drilldown

Sets and Set Actions to create a Single Member Drilldown – video Skill Pill

August 30, 2019

In Tableau you can drilldown using Hierarchies. But what if you wanted to drilldown only for one member of a Hierarchy? To achieve this we can use Sets and Set Actions to create a Single Member Drilldown. In order to […]

Jitter Plot for analyzing one variable using Tableau Software

Jitter Plot for analyzing one variable using Tableau Software – video Skill Pill

August 23, 2019

When viewing one variable people sometimes say Scatter Plot, but that is used to view a relationship between two variables. When analyzing one variable we can use Jitter plots. A Jitter Plot is useful for analyzing the distribution or spread […]

Cohort Chart with Tableau Software

Cohort Chart with Tableau Software – video Skill Pill

August 16, 2019

A Cohort Chart is used to analyze a cohort. You can this type of analysis to spot patterns and trends, make marketing decision, perform customer retention/acquisition analysis or compare to other cohorts. Watch btProvider video: In order to create a […]

DNA Dumbbell Chart generation using Tableau Software

DNA Dumbbell Chart generation using Tableau Software – video Skill Pill

August 9, 2019

A DNA or Dumbbell Chart is a viable alternative to a stacked bar chart, pie chart or line chart depending on the scope of the visualization. It can be used to compare two to three KPIs between each other or […]

Benford’s Law visualization in Tableau

Benford’s Law, a statistical rule, used with Tableau Software – Skill Pill

August 2, 2019

Benford’s Law is a statistical rule that states that the leading digits in naturally occuring numerical data follows a certain distribution (1 occurs 30%, with 9 occuring 4.5%). Benford’s Law has been used to detect credit card, banking, tax or […]

selection sheet in Tableau that is driven by Set Actions.

Selection Icons with Sets using Tableau Software – video Skill Pill

July 26, 2019

Sometimes we want a filter to do more than just filter, we want it to be a selection mechanism that displays one vs the others and highlights our selection. To do this and have the same level of interactivity as […]

dynamic comparison chart

Dynamic Comparison using Tableau Software – Skill Pill

July 19, 2019

When doing comparisons often we want to compare one vs one or one vs others and be quick and flexible in our selection. To achieve this we can use Tableau’s new Parameter Actions to drive the comparison dynamically and never […]

Density Map using Tableau Software

Create one Density Map with Tableau Software – Skill Pill

July 12, 2019

Density Map is an easy-to-use graph that helps us better understand the density of points on a map or scatterplot, as well as trends comparison.     To complete this type of chart, please follow these steps: Step 1: Connect […]

Barcode Chart using Tableau Software

Barcode Chart, an easy-to-use graph – Tableau Software Skill Pill

July 5, 2019

Barcode Chart is an easy-to-use graph that helps us combine two measures into a single view. In today’s example, we can see what weeks are profitable / unprofitable and the size of sales.   To complete this type of chart, […]

Pareto Chart View Distribution

Pareto Chart Distribution View – Tableau Software – Skill Pill

June 28, 2019

The Pareto principle uses the 80/20 rule, meaning that 20% of the production generates 80% of the result. Vilfredo Pareto found that 80% of the wealth is owned by 20% of the population. Pareto Chart represents the view of this […]

usa map data visualisation using Tableau

How to use Discrete & Continuous Colors on One Map with Tableau Software – video – Skill Pill

June 21, 2019

The use two fields, one discreet and one continuous on color, in a single view is very useful if we want to highlight a discreet value, but we want to keep the color legend in the continuous field for the […]

Tableau Desktop interactive dashboards

Marketing Spend view in Tableau Software – Skill Pill

June 14, 2019

Today’s session is about simplicity and about the way we can perform visual analysis on the data that we are analyzing, using Tableau. My attention was recently drawn to this post on LinkedIn, which presents Market Spend data for various […]

Toggle Map with Parameter Actions

Toggle Map with Parameter Actions with Tableau Software – video – Skill Pill

June 6, 2019

With the release of Tableau 2019.2, Parameter Actions were added to the Tableau interactivity roster. These new actions provide a new way of interacting with Parameters and a canvas for new user experiences. One way of using them is to […]

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Lights … Camera … Tableau

June 4, 2019

Thank you all for attending Tableau Software Cinema Tour. It was a great pleasure to meet you all, customers and newcomers to Tableau world. We just collected the statistics from the event and put them in a Tableau Software visualization […]

Lolipop chart build with Tableau

Lollipop chart generated with Tableau Software – video – Skill Pill

May 31, 2019

Lollipop chart is a very useful graph for a hierarchy or if we want to show a top, generated with Tableau Software. It’s useful because you can add more information inside the circle. This graph is an improved bar chart […]

Proportional Brushing by Tableau

Proportional Brushing – Tableau Software – Skill Pill video

May 24, 2019

Proportional Brushing is a technique of interacting with data in which, rather than filtering from a selection, you want to view the proportion of your selection in relation to all/other items. This type of analysis can be achieved in Tableau […]

Show Sheet On Data using Tableau

Show Sheet On Dashboard Action – Tableau Software – Skill Pill video

May 16, 2019

When you create a dashboard in Tableau, but you only want to have the main sheets on the first view, it’s very useful to use dashboard actions and container. Using them it’s easier to hide/show the secondary sheets only when […]

Big Data and CIO Innovation Conference, Prague, May 2019

May 12, 2019

Coming back from Europe Big Data and CIO Innovation Center event in Prague, just wanted to share some thoughts from the business and technical leaders of the largest companies across the globe. First of all, the consumer profile has changed […]

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Tableau Top within a Category – Tableau Software – Skill Pill video

May 10, 2019

When you do a Top in Tableau using Sets, the Set is computed globally thus any top within a Category will result in the intersection between the members of the Category and the Set. In order to properly display the […]

Path Map - Bucharest Subway

Path Map – Bucharest Subway (video) – Tableau Software – Skill Pill

May 3, 2019

In this example we will use the Bucharest Subway Map. Path Map is a graph that uses geographic data (latitude and longitude) and the “Path” function that we find in Line. This view implies a data preparation; we used Tableau Desktop. […]

rounded bar chart editing using Tableau

Rounded Bar Chart in Tableau Software – Skill Pill – (video)

April 26, 2019

Rounded Bar Chart is an improved version of the classic Bar Chart – return to editing Tableau Software. To complete this type of chart, you will need to complete the following steps: Step 1: Connect to the data: In Tableau […]

tableau co occurrence analysis

Market Basket Co Occurrence Analysis (video tutorial) – Tableau Software – Skill Pill

April 19, 2019

A Market Basket or Co-Occurrence Analysis is useful for spotting which products are being bought together, thus we can plan campaigns that put two or more products together to raise our sales and margin. We can also see what customers […]

Two Color Pareto – Skill Pill Tableau Software – video tutorial

April 12, 2019

A pareto analysis explains the importance of an element to the whole. The pareto principle states that 80% of the effect is achieved by 20% of the observations. To better visualize where this effect happens a two-color pareto can easily […]

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Google Analytics data in Tableau Extract versus Google Analytics Portal

April 6, 2019

Google Analytics data and Tableau Extracts are not always matching the numbers. There is a very simple reasoning behind that, and we strongly recommend looking into this article before starting to analyse Google Analytics data in Tableau. In very simple […]

Change Fild Based on a Parameter

Tableau Software – Skill Pill – Change Field Based on a Parameter (VIDEO)

April 5, 2019

Have you ever looked at a Sales dashboard and immediately thought: “I want the same dashboard but for Profit.”. This type of request is quite often handled by adding Profit to some table or bar chart. But a better way […]

Change Visualization By Parameter from Tableau Desktop

Tableau Software – Skill Pill – Change Visualization By Parameter (EN)

March 29, 2019

When we build a dashboard, we always want to bring as much information to the user as possible. This will result in clutter and the dashboard will not be easy readable. To avoid clutter we hide sheets, move information to […]

Scatter Plot with Marginal Histograms using Tableau Software

Tableau Software – Skill Pill – Scatter Plot with Marginal Histograms (VIDEO)

March 22, 2019

A Scatter Plot is used to display two measures in a diagram. It is used to detect relationships or behaviors in the data. By adding a marginal histogram explaining each point, we can visualize in a dashboard to which bin […]

Radial Jitter Plot using Tableau Desktop

Tableau Software – Skill Pill – Radial Jitter Plot (EN)

March 15, 2019

A Radial Jitter Plot is useful to deconstruct a histogram. A histogram is used to summarize the distribution of a measure, sales for instance, bu by using a jitter, we can create a dispersion of our sales at the lowest […]

Heatmap Calendar with Tableau Desktop

Tableau Software – Skill Pill – Heatmap Calendar (video)

March 8, 2019

Heatmap Calendars are used to represent a measure over time, but in the form of a calendar. Thus we can view our data for a certain month in different years daily. We can observe the weekly seasonality for our data […]

Tableau Software - Skill Pill - Bollinger Bands

Tableau Software – Skill Pill – Bollinger Bands (EN)

March 1, 2019

Bollinger Bands are a type of statistical chart used to characterize prices and volatility over time. The visualization can be applied to areas that are outside of finance and trading, using the principle behind it we can view for instance […]

Control Chart using Tableau Desktop

Tableau Software Skill Pill – Control Chart (EN)

February 22, 2019

A control chart is a type of statistical chart used to detect if a process is in a state of control. From a visualization point of view we can borrow the principle and analyze different streams of data to find […]