Author: Mark Bradbourne

I’m super excited to announce the newest community project, Real World Fake Data. With it’s DNA clearly drawn from MakeoverMonday, RWFD hopes to scratch an itch for business-ready dashboards to act as examples to the datafam community. The datasets will cover a myriad of industries and departments, 12 in all. The first dataset will be […]

This is as much for me as it is all of you because I can’t tell you how many times I publish, then republish, and the probably WebEdit a dashboard before it’s “done”. The reason is that I forget the “little things” that I have to do every time I publish a viz… so combining […]

I remember when Selection by Category was demoed at TC15 and being blown away by the possibilities. Truth, I never used it. I would imagine most people either uncheck the box or even forget it’s there as a possibility. Well, I discovered today that you can actually marry this unsung feature with Set Actions and […]

Hot new data set? Breaking current events? Impactful story to tell? Maybe it’s as simple as a Makeover Monday dataset that we do on autopilot… whatever the data, we should work to not fail the soul of the data. Josh has written about it, and so has Bridget… countless others as well… and now, I […]

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We’ve all been there! You are sitting at your desk innocently working away when all of a sudden a meeting invite arrives with the subject line “Dashboard Requirements Meeting”. Your first instinct may be “awesome, a new project AND they have requirements, or at least want to talk about them! Better than the last time […]

We’ve all been there! You are sitting at your desk innocently working away when all of a sudden a meeting invite arrives with the subject line “Dashboard Requirements Meeting”. Your first instinct may be “awesome, a new project AND they have requirements, or at least want to talk about them! Better than the last time […]

These are my opinions…  Zen Master is a somewhat vague concept in the English language that arose during the first half of the 20th century, sometimes used to refer to an individual who teaches Zen Buddhism meditation and practices. This usually implied a longtime study and subsequent authorization to teach  the traditions to others. In reality, there […]

Cascading parameters, or parameter list values that change depending on what is selected in other parameters, is something that has a lot of use cases, but at this point, at least when this blog post was written, is not supported in Tableau.  Cascading filters are possible, but often times you need to leverage the selected […]