Tips for the Tableau Community (By the Community)

I recently asked for the top tips from the Tableau community on Twitter. Anyone want to share their favorite “hidden” feature in Tableau? I’m putting them together for a small presentation! — Luke Stanke (@lukestanke) April 10, 2018 And they delivered. There were more than 50 unique tips and I narrowed the tips down into […]

Building a Radial Line Chart in Tableau.

Below is a chart built for #WorkoutWednesday. It seems to have thrown people off a bit. Just as a reminder here are the requirements: Use sales for 2017. The size of the dashboard 500px x 600px. If you think of the segments as a clock, Week 1 should be at the 12:00 position. The weeks […]

5 tips for mobile dashboards (that are good for any device)

Designing mobile data tools can be intimidating particularly because we think we don’t have a lot of space to tell the same story we would with other devices. The format of data tools – including dashboards – for phones can appear rather limiting, but that’s just a myth. While it would be nice to be […]

Most Downloaded R Packages of 2016

I was curious what packages are the most downloaded from CRAN. A quick google search of “most downloaded R packages 2016” produces outdated articles (see here, here, and here). Luckily the Rstudio CRAN keeps logs of the number of users downloading packages each day. With a few lines of code the data downloaded and aggregated. […]

Considering the Possiblities: The Story Behind My IronViz Submission

Getting Started: The data When developing my visualization for the IronViz competition I wasn’t sure where to begin. I thought that I needed a good data that would stand out from all other competitors. From early submissions, I saw a lot of competitors using similar datasets—I’m no different in this regard, but I think my process to […]