Dynamic secondary axis titles (in a few more minutes)
In a comment, Joe Mako used his pixel ruler to identify some changes to make the final dashboard tighter and more accurate, I’ve edited the instructions to include this. A couple of days ago, the Andy...
View ArticleUnexpected Results: Aliases in URL Parameters
Fellow Tableau Zen Master Andy Kriebel writes great tutorials, like this one on passing filters in a URL. I was using those instructions to build URLs to pass from one Tableau workbook to another and...
View ArticleCrosspost from DataBlick – Tableau Dynamic Parameters Using Alteryx
I’ve been hearing lots of good things about Alteryx as an ETL tool and have been looking forward to using it more. Here’s what I did the day after Alteryx training: built an introductory solution in...
View ArticleCreating a Dynamic Range “Parameter” in Tableau
Tableau’s native parameters have a couple of key limitations as of this writing in February 2018: The list of values is static and we can only select one value at a time, not a range of values. So when...
View ArticleParameter Actions: Using a parameter as a data source
One of my favorite recent projects at PATH has been creating a decision-making dashboard to support indoor residual spraying vs. malaria in Zambia for the Malaria Control & Elimination Project in...
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