Introduction Did you watch the Tableau keynote at Dreamforce 2026? I enjoyed it, and there were a lot of big announcements. It also left me thinking about where dashboards fit now. Ad hoc analysis seems to be moving to AI, and we’re somewhere in the middle of that shift. My current view is that dashboards are […]
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week’s challenges comes from another Data School consultant – Elda Ketena Elda has created this challenge for a football team to enable comparisons against the top performing team. Enjoy! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements A user selects the position in the top right of dashboard Colour of bars (apart from the
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Sometimes stakeholders just want one place to go to find all the dashboards you’ve developed for them. There are ways to do this via organization or Collections in Tableau Server/Cloud, but you can also use tags and the Admin Insights data source (or Server Postgres data) to build a portal of sorts for your
#WOW2026 Week 38 | Can you create an embedded/categorized dashboard portal? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction What I love most about #WorkoutWednesday challenges is learning tips and techniques that I can re-use over and over again in my dashboard builds. This week, I’m showcasing a tip that had many of us in the community completely stunned – the ability to format numbers to different order of magnitudes without the need
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction We know that Tableau can be used for really great executive dashboards and analytic explorations, but one of the things that I love using Tableau the most for is storytelling. Especially whenever you can combine that with a map, Tableau can do some pretty incredible things. This week, for Workout Wednesday, we’re going
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week I wanted to use Tableau Publics WebEdit to build a viz with one of their published datasources. Granted not all of the formatting options are there that I would like, so some of the chart choices are a bit wackier than they would be in Desktop. I would have love to have
Introduction This week is all about maps. Tableau has always been strong with maps, but this time we’ll push it further using Dynamic Spatial Parameters, added back in 2025.2, to build something a little cooler. It’s a technique that’ll come in handy for real-world work too, so have fun with it and give it a
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Sometimes you’ll have products that launch at different times, and so questions come up of how is this most recent launch comparing to other launches in the past? So this week, we’ll have a view of the past year for 5 different products, and then a view with all of those products from a
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Last week I was reminded of an Old Workout Wednesday from TC18. This week I chose to replicate (but simplify) the task. No super fancy calcs, simple Sets (and maybe an IF statement or two) Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard 1000 x 800. 1 Sheet Create Sets for Top & Bottom
Introduction I have been running an experimental fork of the Tableau MCP server, trying to make dashboards live inside an AI chat. The piece I am most excited about is the viz state snapshot. You filter the embedded dashboard, the model gets told what you are now looking at, and it can go query the
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday