Best of the Tableau Web: Minesweeper, maps, and a sneak peek of parameter actions

We’re back with Best of the Web—a roundup of some of the best Tableau blogs on the world wide web. Due to some administrative errors (ahem: “Andy didn’t send emails”), we missed a whole bunch of superb posts from the last few months, but don’t worry, we’re making up for it by posting even more resources this month. And this month’s content is chock-full of inspiration.

To start, Zen Master Bridget Cogley looks at the meaning of “data literacy” from the perspective of a linguist. Bridget provides an overview of the term literacy and then applies it to data.

Second, Ella Worsdale reflects on her experience leading a Tableau User Group and the relationships she built along the way that formed into a strong, supportive community. We want to give Ella a warm welcome to the blogging community!

Finally, if you thought Set Actions were powerful, wait until you see Parameter Actions in the Tableau 2019.2 release. This new feature is, I predict, going to create another explosion of creativity among the community. I can’t wait to see what ideas you come up with. Some of you are already out of the blocks with ideas, and I want to highlight Josh Milligan’s implementation of Parameter Actions to create Minesweeper in Tableau. You could argue that it might not be analytically valuable, but it’s Minesweeper...in Tableau...and it’s amazing!

Nisa Marques The Donut Chart in Tableau: A Step-by-Step Guide
Emma Whyte Quick guide: ISO 8601 dates in Tableau
Mavis Liu Travel Made Easy with Tableau Calendar View

TableauFit Beauty and the Beast: Designing for both function and form
MikeVizneros Visualizing the Future
Spencer Baucke Holistic Tableau Design
Elliott Stam A Song of Tableau and Data: Exploring Game of Thrones IMDB Ratings
Michael Correll Let’s Do Virtuous Data Visualization
Natalia Miteva Five things I wish I knew about Tableau as a beginner
Keith Dykstra Spell-O-L: A Data Viz of Hilarious Misspellings
Dataliciously Ella Reflections of a Tableau User Group Leader
Ken Flerlage It’s Okay to Break the Rules…Sometimes
Steven Franconeri Multiple views on how to choose a visualization
Viz Zen Data Why Collaborative Vizzes Rule
James Fox Tableau Server Choose Your Own Adventure
TableauFit A Linguistics-Centric Take on Data Literacy

Grant Eisenmenger Going the Distance in Tableau: Fixed Point Comparisons
Liz Jensen Tableau Class Notes: Filtering with a Date Slider
VIZJOCKEY Custom Sort Control in Tableau
RosarioViz Sort Techniques: Numeric and Alphabetical!
Ken Flerlage Data Source-Based Lookups in Tableau
LearningTableauBlog More circles on lines
Luke Stanke Tutorial: Circular Sankey Diagram
Ken Flerlage Creating a Date Scaffold in Tableau
TabVizAnalytics Extract Dates From a String- Tableau
MissDataViz #TableauTipTuesday Week 13 – Using ASCII to determine your sort options
MY DATA MUSINGS How to create a dynamic candlestick chart in Tableau | #WorkoutWednesday
Tableau Magic Exploring Jitter Plots in Tableau
Hanna Nykowska Intro to Tableau LODs (fixed)
VizWiz #TableauTipTuesday - How to create multiple lines in a single field with a line break
RosarioViz Dynamic view of historical data prices
Alessandro Costanzo Dynamically Update the ‘Relative to’ section of a Table Calculation
Bona Wang How to round time in Tableau
Grant Eisenmenger Going the Distance in Tableau: Clustering Based on Distance
Alessandro Costanzo How to create a Top-N Highlighter which dynamically shows the cumulative % of total

Laine Caruzca Understanding how to build a waterfall chart in Tableau
Tableau Magic Drawing a Circle Dot Chart
Samuel Shurmer Tableau Tip Tuesday: An easy way to keep your formatting
Sarah Loves Data How to Build Circular Maps with Interactivity in Tableau
Kolsuma Aktar Part 2 – Creating string parameters with dynamic axis titles (on horizontal axis)
Viz Zen Data Cottonwood seeds, Failures, and Quilting: How to create custom labels, sorting, and jittering in Tableau
Kevin Flerlage Zoomable Charts in Seconds
MY DATA MUSINGS How to make your population pyramids POP! in Tableau
Eric Parker A Dozen Ways to Improve Dashboard Design
VizWiz How to Make the Font Bigger than the Max Tableau Allow

The Last Data Bender MakeLine() + Transparency + Mark Hiding = Oh My!
Dataviz.blog Parameter Actions
Dorian Banutoiu New levels of Tableau interactivity
VizPainter Parameter Actions in Tableau 2019.2 Sneak Peek
Drawing Wih Numbers Parameter Actions: Using a parameter as a data source

Robert Headington Small tips to reduce changes in Tableau Prep
Jonathan Allenby Creating a Row Total field in Tableau Prep
VizPainter Using Tableau Prep to track account balance history from Mint
LearningTableauBlog Tableau Prep Builder – Joins and Aggregation
Tom Prowse Tableau Prep Tip – Converting Bracketed Numbers to Negatives
Alexander Waleczek How to create Table Calculations in Tableau Prep

Alexander Fridriksson Sentiment Analysis Using Python in Tableau with TabPy
Tableau and Behold! Exposing Limited Amounts of Tableau REST API Functionality to Users via tableau_tools
Ashley Trinh Using R in Tableau