Author: Mark Bradbourne

Editors Note: If it’s bold, it’s a link If you’ve ever met anyone from the greater Tableau Community, I will bet that they mentioned that you should get involved, plugin, contribute, etc… it’s just how the community is in general; that is, we want as many people as possible to experience the same passion and […]

How well do you know Tableau? I got a chance to test my skills this week at the Cincinnati Tableau User Group during their Viz Games. “Newbies” were asked to reproduce a dashboard projected on the screen, while “experts” were asked to produce the same dashboard with Automatic Updates turned off for each worksheet. If […]

Tableau 2020.1 is in Beta now and one of the hot new featurs is animations, or more accurately described a as “mark transitions”. This will no doubt introduce a new debate of best practices for applying this new-to-Tableau preattentive attribute. The best course of action is to develop a strategy now as to when, where […]

It’s always a good laugh to joke about some of the crazy requests we get in regards to requirements, but it’s also good to have a plan when these “jokes” arise. Here are a few things I’ve learned over the years. We’ve all been there! You are sitting at your desk innocently working away when […]

Dataset #2 is in the books! Thanks to everyone who is not only participating, but spreading the word! I love that each tweet I see with a submission is including a link on how to participate. You all rock! This data set was focused on Financial Institution Consumer Complaints. In the real world, this dataset […]

Our 4th dataset was based on Call center data…. and WOW! So many great submissions for this dataset! When I search for #RWFD on Tableau Public now I can see my dream coming true… lots and lots of real world dashboards for people across all industries that can be used as inspiration. Let’s jump in […]

Let’s talk about Sets, baby… Working with a customer recently, the requirement was to show a list of excluded cities on one worksheet from a list of states and cities on another worksheet. My initial thought was sets, then they through a curve ball and wanted the filter controls to only show relevant values. Now, […]

As of today, we’ve released half of the datasets (Social Media/Marketing was published this morning)! Each week I see more and more new names, as well as some people who have been with me since the start… so for that, thank you! You never know how these community projects might go, and I’ve been very […]

I love watching the #DataFam in action, simply because it produces so much fantastic content. It can be blog posts, podcasts, vizzes and even swag being sold to support an intuitive! But every once in a while I get reminded of just how awesome the community is from a learning perspective. Someone recently tweet that […]

Every data set I’ve been blown away by the quality of submissions, and with each data set I see more an more participation and I’m equally blown away by that. So before I jump in to this recap I want to share a heart-felt thank you. Thank you for jumping in, thank you for sharing […]