Tableau Speed Tipping: 20 Tips in 20 Minutes
Hello #DataFam,
this is the promised blog post about the twenty-one tips I showed in my speed tipping session for the #DataFamCommunityJam episode 7 and for #VizConnect season 2 episode 21. If I had put everything in one blog post, this would have become one beast of a post, so I decided to split everything up into eleven easily digestible posts. Don’t worry, you won’t need to work yourself through all the posts in order to find that one tip you were looking for. Use this table of contents instead:
- Use UTF-8 characters in your formatting
- Format zero values and replace numbers with text without changing the field type
- Create a bubble chart with shapes by using UTF-8 characters in a word cloud
- Labelling using reference lines
- Labelling using Gantt bars
- Quickly print to PDF with different filter settings by using Pages
- Hold Alt+drag to select characters underneath each other in calculations to remove comments
- Rename ad-hoc calcs using comments
- Automatic renaming of persisted fields using comments
- Zoom axis using parameter
- Use viz in tooltip to colour tooltip backgrounds
- Use ad-hoc calc to reach custom colour palettes
- Colour historical all-time highs using RUNNING_MAX
- Converting string to geo fields
- Colour map background
- Shade background using floating container
- Shade background using Set Action
- Creating instructive dashboard overlays
- Use Highlight Action to deselect
- Move floating objects faster using Shift+Arrow
- Use floating text objects to show hints for developers
I hope these tips serve you well and allow you to accomplish more in Tableau and save a few seconds every day!