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I'm just coming back from Vizit Berlin, a two-day-event organized from the Tableau community (thank you Sarah, Heidi, Annabelle & Tore) for the community. It wa

I recently shared my makeover of the Tableau Income Statement (+Budget) accelerator on LinkedIn and on Tableau Public. It's a pure Tableau viz, without any data

Recently, Klaus Schulte asked for some help with wrestling NetCDF files into Tableau. To help out, I wrote up a little Python script to pull the data out and co

In one of my recents projects, I've created a world population cartogram. In such a map, country size represents population. Each one-by-one square stand

Marginal histograms are great to find patterns in your data. Especially when working with date or time fields, they're one of my preferred chart type to start m

Greetings! Lukas here from learningtableau.com. I asked Klaus if I could do a guest post providing an update to Christine’s terrific series on becoming a Tablea

In this blog I'd like to share one of the coolest things I've ever created in Tableau. But what is so cool about this viz? You've probably already seen t

Tableau Public is an incredible resource. 2M authors who have published more than 5M visualizations and billions of views, these are the latest figures I've hea

I've just finished a project where I had a very interesting and fun challenge: Create a Cost-Plus-Pricing Tool in Tableau.

In my work as an analyst and consultant as well as in my work at university, there are few things more satisfying to me, than building automated data-pipelines,

by Rosario Gauna & Klaus Schulte Write-back for Everyone There are many use cases where it’s necessary to add user defined data to the existing data to do

As a constant visitor on Klaus' blog I came across the blog series of Drill-Downs and Drill-Ups in Tableau. Rosario introduced the general technique in this

Squared Sankey P&Ls in Tableau is a joint work of Liam Spencer & Klaus Schulte. Earlier this year, I (Klaus) published a P&L visualization, that grabbeb some

Drill-Down and Drill-Up without SPLIT and FINDNTH. — This post is an addition to previous posts on this blog and on Rosario Gauna's blog. Rosario introduced

A few days ago, I came across this tweet by We are R-Ladies, who linked an original post by Cédric Scherer from last year. Cédric developed R code to create som

Christine Rietmann, who is one of my students at Münster University of Applied Sciences in Germany shared her journey of preparing and passing the Tableau Deskt

Drill-Down & Up P&Ls Tableau is the next part of a series of posts on visualizing financial data on this blog recently. Visualizing P&L Statements reflects t

Multiple Drill-Downs in Tableau. — Some weeks ago, Rosario published a blog where she presented a technique to both drill-down and drill-up a view as a single s

I'm very happy to publish my first game in Tableau, created in a collaboration with Tableau community superstar Kevin Flerlage. Spot It and Dobble are th

Introduction When it comes to visualizing financial data, it is often required to combine cumulative and non-cumulative values in one visualization (and yes:

I've been experimenting with Viz-in-Labels lately like in my 9M Profit Bridge on Deutsche Bank's financial report data or my custom treemap on Tableau's superst

by Klaus Schulte & Ivett Kovács Thanks for joining our session at #data19! In this blog you can find all the resources we mentioned. Don't hesitate to reach

Welcome back, everyone — Create and Modify a Dashboard is the last blog post of my 'Becoming a Tableau Desktop Specialist Series'. New to this series? Then c

Hi everyone! Last week I introduced a lot of new topics and of course, it is a process to learn these things. More than that, we have to practice a lot until we

For this month's #sportsvizsunday challenge I created this scatter plot on shot efficiency, goals, and shots on goals of NHL's TOP 25 all-time points leaders.

Hi, everyone! This week we have a lot of stuff to learn. Our topic 'Apply analytics to a worksheet' will deal with sort options, reference & trend lines, table

Welcome back! This week I will write about Sets, Groups and Filters. These are all useful instruments for analyzing your data. Check out the further posts o

3D charts are widely regarded as bad practice in the context of visualizing data. 3D adds no additional information. On the contrary, it clutters the viz and of

Hello, I can't believe how time flies, it is already half-time. This thought makes me imminently nervous because the exam day is coming closer. Good to have suc

Hey everyone! This is part 4 of my 'Becoming a Tableau Desktop Specialist' blog series. Last week's post was about dimensions and measures and today I will writ

Visualizing P&L Statements — A few days ago, I came across this tweet about accountants and their love for the standard P&L statement, stated by fellow Tableau

Last week was tough, wasn't it? I hope you had enough time to take a deep breath and you are ready to start with this week's topic: Dimensions and Measures. And

For this week's #WorkoutWednesday2019 episode Zen Master Luke Stanke challenged the community to create rounded bar charts: This week we are making bar chart

On my way to become a Tableau Desktop Specialist we will finish the first topic this week: Connecting to & Preparing Data. Therefore, we look at data connection

by Klaus Schulte & Rosario Gauna Data Densification - you will have already come across this topic, when you have gone beyond 'Show Me' in Tableau: You've

Welcome back! This week we will learn how to create and save data connections. This is part of the first skill measured in the Tableau Desktop Specialist Exa

Some weeks ago, I was very honored to be a guest host for the week 32 WorkoutWednesday challenge. Thanks again to Ann, Lorna, Luke, and Curtis for having me! In

Hi Everyone! My name is Christine and I have been studying business administration at Münster University of Applied Sciences for two years now. I was lucky en

In the past weeks, I had the immense honor to collaborate with Steve Wexler on revisiting his famous Churn Dashboard from the Big Book of Dashboards. The #BBOD

Ok, this is probably not a big thing, but I have been thinking about it for quite a while now: How can I encode change in line charts accurately? Wait: Encod

Step line charts have been introduced with Tableau's 2018.1 release and it's really hard to remember that there was a time before, where it needed a little hack

Today my students and I practiced a waterfall chart - a chart type you just have to know when you want become an accountant :) While practicing I brought up

This week, I published this viz on the Earth Overshoot Day as my entry for the #IronViz European Qualifier 2019 (click to play with the interactive Version on T

This week I had a lot of fun recreating Lorna Eden's #WorkoutWednesday2019 challenge. One key element was to implement a custom sort control (click to play with

a collaborative blog by Ken Flerlage and Klaus Schulte The Challenge Last week at work I (Klaus) puzzled my head over an interesting question. I was looking at

When I was reading a news website earlier today I had this nice user experience when I was hovering this chart: I really like that you don't have to foll

At #TC18, right before #IronViz, I had a nice conversation with Zen Master Ann Jackson about table calculations in Tableau that can be summarized like this:

Do you want to learn more about "everything is a scatterplot" and the "multiple-layer-technique"? Then rebuild my kinked bar chart! Interactive Version: T

For this week's #makeovermonday challenge I created this visualization combining a hex map and multiple line charts (click to play with the interactive version

Ludovic Tavernier and I have spent quite some time on our collaboration project about the rise of tennis legend Boris Becker. One key element of our viz is some

When Simon, Spencer and James asked me earlier this year if I could join the #sportsvizsunday team as a guest host for one of the upcoming months I was very hon

Scoring-Models are something like a Swiss Army Knife in decision-making and you can use them on almost unlimited occasions. They are models in which various cri

For this week's #workoutwednesday challenge I recreated a viz by Rody Zakovich (click to play with the interactive version on Tableau Public). What I lik

Custom Scroll Control for Synchronized Scrolling. — When I did this week's #workoutwednesday challenge, I learned how to use the Index-Formula to filter measure

Last week I wrote about how to create bounding boxes in Tableau. In my most recent visualization I used them to create a custom zoom control for multiple maps.

For #makeovermonday week 34 I created a viz that is showing fatalities of crisis in Africa and Asia (click the image). While I was happy to support such

In my most recent visualization on red cards in major European football leagues I used a little design trick that led to an 'almost connected dot plot' (click t

Some weeks ago this Tweet by Rody Zakovich caught my eyes: New @tableaupublic Viz! Top 50 NBA Scoring Leadershttps://t.co/oUSkeSFZgH Special thanks to @Jtoth

Five minutes before showtime, we were already waiting behind the huge stage of the ICC Auditorium for the grand #IronVizEurope final to start. I was taking a de

Some of you may have seen the #IronVizEurope grand final, where trapezium tile maps (Neil Richards labeled them this way and I quite liked it) for Europe played

When I was playing around a little bit with this week's #MakeoverMonday data on The World’s Most Expensive Prime Property I had the idea to compare prices for p

For this week's #MakeoverMonday I created a visualization to compare Premier League pre season predictions with reality after 38 rounds: I was inspired b

For the first #IronViz feeder contest I created a context machine for German literature (click the viz for an interactive version on Tableau Public): The

In the past weeks, I had quite some fun to create visualizations for the Olympic and the Paralympic Winter Games. Beside a visualization of the most successful

There are many blogposts on how to build a hex tile map in tableau (see for example this overview by Charlie Hutcheson). If you ever want to build a hex map jus

In a 20-country YouGov international study men and women were asked which attributes they prioritise in a partner. The heatmap shows where men and women have si

For the #SWDchallenge I created this annotated line chart showing the Transfer Expenditures in German Football Bundesliga from 1990-2017. Check out the interact

Starting Point and Goals In this first blog post I want to share my work on this week's #MakeoverMonday challenge. The Community took a look at US per capita co