Tableau 2025.2 dropped recently and whilst it has lots of cool new features (dynamic spatial parameters, anyone?) it is also often the small things that can make your life so much easier. Have you noticed Tableau offers "find in data pane"? Just right click a dimension or measure on your view and it will offer... Continue Reading →
Tableau 2025.1 Relationships, Data Source Filters and an unexpected behavior.
Today at work I ran into an unexpected behavior when using relationships in Tableau 2025.1.1 with the new feature of table specific data source filters. For those of you who might not be aware, this is the new feature I am talking about: Notice how we are now able to select the scope of the... Continue Reading →
Dude, Where’s My S(C)roll b(ar)?
Anyone remember this move straight from the Millenium? Heavens, time flies. Anyways, I kinda felt like the guys in the movie today. After weeks of work on Tableau Desktop, I uploaded a Dashboard for final release. It was meant to be shared with a wide audience on our Tableau Cloud instance. Some checks here, some... Continue Reading →
The Hidden Gems
Today, I will not be sharing a "how to" or anything else I did myself but I thought it might be time to shine (an additional) light on some great people that I consider the "hidden gems", Here is a list of names and their blogs I believe deserve (even) more recognition for what they... Continue Reading →
Mastering Table Calculations Pt. 2: Excursus on Domain Padding and Domain Completion
This part of the series on table calculations explores Domain Completion and Domain Padding as methods for dealing with sparse data in Tableau.
LODs, Row Level Permissions, Cross joins and potentially a whole lot of costs
Today I have something that is related to optimizing your dashboards and/or data source row level permission for cost savings and to raise awareness of something that maybe you are not really aware. We will be looking into the effects of using (table scoped) LODs in combination with row level permission filtering at the source.... Continue Reading →
Vizzies Awards 2023
#TC23 has come to an end and once again I am very humbled to have been nominated in two categories for the Vizzies 2023 awards. What makes me especially happy is that this year I was also listed - besides the more or less natural category of "Forum Fanatic" - in the "Best Content Creator"... Continue Reading →
Weeks and why you need to be careful || Let’s have a (word about) date(s) (5/6)
Many companies just love weeks and request reports being done on a weekly or by-week basis. That is all fine, fun and games but there are a couple of things you need to be aware of, especially if you are either just starting with Tableau, or week-based reporting or if your company is located in... Continue Reading →
My first year blogging
Given that my blog just turned 1yr old I created a small dashboard and actually intended to embed it via an iFrame but apparently this is not possible for people that only pay "premium" (lol, what a joke). At least everything looks great in preview mode and when I publish, it just all goes blank...... Continue Reading →
On my own account: Vizzies 2022
Now that TC22 is over I am happy to share that even though (as honestly I did expect) I didn't win I am still humbled by having been nominated for three different awards which in itself is much more I had ever expected. #1 CoE & Server Superstar (I think this was a mistake and... Continue Reading →
Tableau Adventurer 