Tableau Blog Posts Series – Tips,Tricks,Best Practices
Blog six – Formatting
- When you have multiple, similar measures, you can Ctrl-click to select them all and change the formatting simultaneously.
- Use tooltip to tell a story http://datajedininja.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/tableau-design-month-tooltips.html
- Vizdom Change data source in Tableau and keep the formatting http://inviso.dk/2013/change-data-source-but-keep-the-formating/?utm_source=feedly
- Remove unnecessary headers/titles/lines, add reference line/annotation, number format, sync axis, update tooltip
- Use dual axis to highlight certain value in the view https://www.broadbandmetrics.com/display/Public/2013/09/16/How+to+Create+a+Small+Multiple+Masterpiece+in+Tableau
- Change latitude to measure (use avg/median) and duplicate the measure, use dual axis to get multiple marks into the same map https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAZ3IAJEuCI&list=PL-BWnq0WZ3JA6IxEzYfe5p3Sii1zv4yio&index=7
- Custom icon in tooltip
https://www.broadbandmetrics.com/display/Public/2014/04/28/Tableau+Pro+Tip%3A+Adding+Icons+to+Tables+and+Tooltips - Charts in tooltip http://gravyanecdote.com/andy-cotgreave/charts-in-a-tooltip/
- Create fake headers to format individual measure http://datapsientist.blogspot.com/2014/10/tableau-trick-for-work-min1.html
- Use Dateparse for Date formatting http://kb.tableausoftware.com/articles/knowledgebase/understanding-the-dateparse-function http://www.jewelloree.com/2014/02/21/adventures-in-dateparse/
- Dynamic annotation http://vizpainter.com/dynamic-annotations-part-2/?utm_source=feedly http://vizpainter.com/dynamic-annotations-part-3/
- Format Date and Time http://drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org/formatting-time-durations/
- Use Index to get clustered bar chart http://vizpainter.com/1-easy-trick-for-clustered-bar-charts/
- Scatter plot with Pie mark http://community.tableausoftware.com/message/225437
- Colorblind tips https://www.broadbandmetrics.com/display/Public/2014/01/30/Using+Red+and+Green+in+Your+Tableau+Viz
- 45 degree reference line http://datographer.blogspot.com/2014/01/creating-45-degree-reference-line-in.html
- Row-level highlighting https://www.interworks.com/blogs/ksloan/2015/01/07/row-level-highlighting-tableau
- Using a Set to Create a Relative Date Filter http://vizwiz.blogspot.com/2015/01/relativedateset.html
- Sheet swapping or sheet selection http://vizpainter.com/sheet-selection-on-steroids/
- Data Date Range http://vizcandy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/tableau-finishing-touches-data-date.html
- Dashboard Actions (Switch between dashboards) http://paintbynumbersblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/a-rough-guide-to-tableau-dashboard.html#more
- URL action http://vizcandy.blogspot.ca/2013/06/finishing-touches-sources-and-urls-in.html?m=1