For today I have something hopefully interesting for many. A Waterfall chart is a quite common type of chart whenever we look at financial data but obviously can be used in many regards. In any case, it always does the same: it explains how we come from a starting reference to an end value by … Continue reading Creating a filterable year-over-year Waterfall Chart with multiple measures using internal data densification
Category: Filters
Changing date granularity based on filter (!) selection
For today I have an interesting one. Let's assume we are faced with a request where the circumstances allow you to show a maximum of twelve bars in your chart. Reason isn't relevant, let's just stick with that as a prerequisite. At the same time, you are tasked to provide the most conclusive yet granular … Continue reading Changing date granularity based on filter (!) selection
How to show filter selection and custom “all selection” on text marks
By incident, today's blog post is somewhat related to my last post and once again comes straight out of the Tableau forums where the solution I am going to share has been very well received. Apparently, this is a topic that concerns many users. The question asked was how we could show each single item … Continue reading How to show filter selection and custom “all selection” on text marks
A bit about the order of operations – Part 2
Here is the second and concluding part of the mini series on diving into the order of operations based on workout-wednesday 2022 week 15 challenge by Erica Hughes. In Part 1 we rebuilt the solution that was in the challenge but this time our aim is to avoid using hard-encoding the maximum date or storing … Continue reading A bit about the order of operations – Part 2
A bit about the order of operations – Part 1
Wow, it's been more than a month since I last published something. So it is more than time to get going again. This time, we will do two things: first, revisit workout-wednesday challenge 2022 - Week 15, rebuild it and discuss the challenges related to the order of operations. Then, in Part 2 of this … Continue reading A bit about the order of operations – Part 1
A quickie on Filters, actions and tooltips
Almost certainly during the course of work with Tableau one will encounter the issue of trying to implement a tooltip and at the same time using a dashboard action or a quick filter that shall also filter the tooltip. Starting with the action filters Unfortunately, we cannot pass through the action as a filter to … Continue reading A quickie on Filters, actions and tooltips
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