Tableau allows users to create a wide variety of visualizations within a dashboard. When you want to understand the relationship between two measure values in Tableau, you can use a dual-axis or shared axis view. Both visualizations show relationships, but they do so in different ways depending on the measure values you need to understand.…
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Adding Value with Embedded Analytics (Whitepaper)
This whitepaper, written by Michael Kovner, Product Manager, and Tracy Rodgers, Product Marketing Manager, at Tableau provides guidance for embedding Tableau within simple web pages, custom web portals, 3rd-party applications, and customer-facing products. About the Whitepaper Business moves fast, and managers and decision-makers can’t wait days, or even hours, to view data and analyze the…
Tableau Tips & Tricks: Click and Drag to Create Duplicates
We at XeoMatrix have gathered a few tips & tricks that can make your Tableau development experience even more efficient. Today's topic is: Click and Drag to Create Duplicates. To easily create a duplicate image, icon, chart, or graph in your Tableau worksheet, you can use the control, click, and drag shortcut. We've created an…
How to Make Donut Charts In Tableau
Donut charts have begun to replace Pie charts in data visualization. While they provide a similar level of detail or insight into data, the Donut chart has become best practice. To learn how to make donut charts in Tableau, follow our step-by-step tutorial below. What Is a Donut Chart? A donut chart is very similar…
3 Tips for Embedded Analytics Beginners
As business continues to move online, data has become an increasingly important metric. Whether you are collecting data from social media, website conversions, advertisements, or email newsletters, you need to understand it and leverage it to make decisions. This is where embedded analytics can help. If you're haven't already taken the plunge with embedded analytics,…
Tableau Tips & Tricks: Add Data from an Online Source
We at XeoMatrix have gathered a few tips & tricks that can make your Tableau development experience even more efficient. Today's topic is: Add Data from an Online Source. If you want to add data into your Tableau worksheet from an online source, you can easily copy and paste it. Let's say, for example, that…
How to Remove Grouping from Crosstabs In Tableau
Tableau creates crosstab groups in order to help us quickly understand data. However, these groupings are not usually the best way to present visual data to an end-user. In this article, we will teach you how to remove grouping from crosstabs in Tableau. What Are Crosstabs in Tableau? A crosstabular view in Tableau shows detailed…
What Is Modern Business Intelligence?
As the pace of business continues to accelerate, business intelligence has quickly evolved to meet the needs of data-hungry users. Modern business intelligence tools have opened the door for self-service analytics and brought data reporting to the mainstream. But how do you know if it's time to make the switch to a more modern set…
Tableau Tips & Tricks: Quickly Add a Flat File to Tableau
We at XeoMatrix have gathered a few tips & tricks that can make your Tableau development experience even more efficient. Today's topic is: Quickly Add a Flat File to Tableau. Tableau is able to quickly load flat files with a simple click and drag. Below, we have an empty example worksheet and an example flat…
Tableau Tips & Tricks: Right-Click and Drag for Aggregations
We at XeoMatrix have gathered a few tips & tricks that can make your Tableau development experience even more efficient. Today's topic is: Right-Click and Drag for Aggregations. To add aggregations to your visualizations, you can use a simple right-click and drag. We've created an example visualization below to show you to use the right-click…