Best of the Tableau Web: January 2013

Didn't have time to look for blog content in Jamuary? No worries: we do it for you. Here is the collection of what our customers had to say about Tableau last month.

Didn't have time to look for blog content in Jamuary? No worries: we do it for you. Here is the collection of what our customers had to say about Tableau last month.

They Walked Together Torque, Telemetry and Tableau - using Tableau to visualise car jounrey data - Tableau use case
Drawing With Numbers Bars and Lines - Zen Master Jonathan Drummey shows a cool trick for a side-by-side bar and line chart - Tableau tricks
Hot Piece of Apps Dynamic Images in Tableau - using Shapes to create dynamic images on a dashboard - Tableau tricks
Interworks - Use Google Analytics to analyse your Tableau Server usage - Tableau tricks
The Information Lab - want percent of total to apply to all members, filtered or not? Here's the trick - Tableau tricks
Health intelligence - Tracking world mortality over time (via a very cool dashboard!) - Tableau use case
Viz Candy - Looking at gun control in the US - Tableau use case
Breaking BI - a 101 guide to filter types in Tableau - Tableau tips
Tableau Friction - Jittery Charts: how to avoid some common display problems with Tableau - Tableau tricks
Hot piece of apps - Fixing column merging (a common beginner's problem!) - Tableau tips
Tableau love - Fun with Treemaps: Russell Christopher explores one of the nice new Colour palette features of Tableau - Tableau tips
VizWiz - How to create streamgraphs in Tableau (in just SIX steps) by Zen Master Andy Kriebel - Tableau tips
Viz wiz - exploring Tableau v8's new dropdown filters - Tableau tips
The Telltale chart - exploring long-term unemployment in previous recessions: a nice line chart - Tableau use case
Tableau love - in-depth look at web-authoring dashboards with Tableau v8 - Tableau tricks
Tableau Friction - Chris Gerard suggests ways we could improve Tableau's menus. Do you agree? - Tableau article
Drawing with Numbers - Zen Master Jonathan Drummey discovers cool new ways of exploting the new colour palette functionality in Tableau v8 - Tableau tricks

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