Easily Create Collapsible Menus, Sheet Selectors, and Much More Using Navigation Buttons
Kevin FlerlageDecember 10, 2018
Easily Create Collapsible Menus, Sheet Selectors, and Much More Using Navigation Buttons
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Color Theming in Tableau
Ken FlerlageDecember 08, 2018
It’s fairly common these days for software and apps to provide a color theme option—typically light or dark mode. For instance, here’s m...
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A Christmas Connect-the-Dots
Ken FlerlageDecember 04, 2018
A few weeks back, as I was experimenting with Tableau’s new Set Actions feature, I discovered that I could create a connect-the-dots ga...
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Wind Roses
Ken FlerlageNovember 25, 2018
At the recent Tableau Conference, they had a "Zen Garden" which was part of the expo hall's community area and allowed peo...
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SQL for Tableau Part 5: Subqueries
Ken FlerlageNovember 10, 2018
Welcome back to our series on SQL for Tableau Users. This week, Robert Crocker will be diving into subqueries...
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Quick Tip: Downgrade Your Tableau Workbook
Ken FlerlageOctober 30, 2018
Lately, I’ve spent a lot of time answering questions on the Tableau Community Forums . One of the biggest things we ask people to do whe...
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SQL for Tableau Part 4: Order of Operations
Ken FlerlageOctober 14, 2018
Welcome back to our series on SQL for Tableau Users. If you missed the first three parts of the series, be sure to check them out here:
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SQL for Tableau Part 3: Aggregation
Ken FlerlageSeptember 30, 2018
Part 1 of our series on SQL for Tableau dealt with the basics and part 2 dealt with combining data via joins and unions. In part 3, ...
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SQL for Tableau Part 2: Combining Data
Ken FlerlageSeptember 15, 2018
Part 1 of our series on SQL for Tableau dealt with the basics. In part 2, we’ll be talking about combining data. Before jumping into t...
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SQL for Tableau Part 1: The Basics
Ken FlerlageSeptember 03, 2018
Data is rarely structured so perfectly that you can simply drag and drop your data into Tableau. Most of the time, you’ll need to perfor...
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Armed Conflict
Ken FlerlageAugust 23, 2018
This week’s Makeover Monday featured a data set provided by Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), including data abou...
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Creating Joy Plots in Tableau
Ken FlerlageAugust 22, 2018
This post will provide a template for creating joy plots in Tableau. For this, I've drawn upon the work of Neil Richards, Bora Be...
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Curvy Timelines in Tableau
Ken FlerlageJuly 28, 2018
A few weeks ago, David Pires reached out to me with a challenge. If you read my blog regularly, you know I love a challenge!! Anyway, ...
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A Sweet Take on Iron Viz (Guest Post by Kevin Flerlage)
Ken FlerlageJuly 21, 2018
Well, what can I say…I’m a sucker for a challenge. When I was a kid, I would do just about anything on a dare. In elementary school, kid...
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The Triple Crown
Ken FlerlageJuly 07, 2018
I grew up in Kentucky, a state that boasts a number of fantastic sporting events—University of Kentucky and Louisville basketball games,...
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A Template for Creating Sunbursts in Tableau
Ken FlerlageJune 19, 2018
In this post, I’ll share a template for creating sunburst charts in Tableau. This template is based on the original work of Bora ...
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A History of the FIFA World Cup
Ken FlerlageJune 09, 2018
With the 2018 World Cup ready to get started next weekend, I decided to create a visualization on the history of the tournament. Armed w...
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3 Ways to Pivot Data for Tableau
Ken FlerlageJune 03, 2018
To read this blog in Spanish see 3 Formas de Pivotar Datos para Tableau In the course of my work with Tableau, I’ve come to r...
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Pointillism in Tableau
Ken FlerlageMay 25, 2018
Despite being nearly 4 years old, I recently discovered George Gorczynski ’s blog post about creating Pointillistic Art in Tableau . As ...
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Adventures in 3D
Ken FlerlageMay 12, 2018
I recently had the idea to create a model of the rings of Saturn. After a bit of reading, I learned that there are 14 major subdivisions...
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Parametric Parrot
Ken FlerlageApril 19, 2018
A few weeks ago, Jonni Walker retweeted the following, which showed birds creating through use of equations discovered by Hamid Naderi...
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Tableau Chart Templates Part 1: Sankeys
Ken FlerlageApril 13, 2018
Note: I'll be leaving this post here, but I want to make you aware of another blog which addresses a flaw of the original approach an...
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Creating “Filled Shape Charts” in Tableau (Guest Post)
Ken FlerlageApril 07, 2018
Hello visualizationaries! My name is Kevin Flerlage. Yes, you read that correctly; it’s not a typo. I am the identical twin brother of...
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Holy Non-Standard Visualizations Batman! (Guest Post)
Ken FlerlageMarch 31, 2018
Hello everyone! My name is Adolfo Hernandez, I’m a Data Visualization and Tableau geek ( my Tableau Public profile here ). I’ve been kin...
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The 27 Club: A Visual Analysis
Ken FlerlageMarch 24, 2018
In January, rapper Fredo Santana died of a seizure, most likely due to heavy use of lean (also known as Purple Drank), becoming the latest...
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Why You Should Enter Iron Viz
Ken FlerlageMarch 17, 2018
As you may have heard, Iron Viz season is now upon us— Iron Viz Europe is officially underway and the dates for Iron Viz Global have bee...
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Using PowerPoint for Tableau Graphics
Ken FlerlageMarch 10, 2018
In most of my Tableau visualizations, I like to use different fonts for my titles. Unfortunately, Tableau Public and Tableau Server do n...
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A Tableau Color Wheel
Ken FlerlageMarch 08, 2018
I have never created a sunburst in Tableau before and have been wanting to give it a try, but just haven’t found a data set that I thoug...
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Can I Do That? Coloring in Tableau
Ken FlerlageMarch 02, 2018
This is part 2 in a 2-part series which asks the question “Can I do that in Tableau?” These posts do not intend to address any real-world...
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How to Pronounce Flerlage
Ken FlerlageFebruary 23, 2018
Just a quick blog post today. I recently posted a question on Twitter, asking for suggestions on a good screen capture tool for creatin...
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Modern Slavery
Ken FlerlageFebruary 17, 2018
Despite the fact that slavery was formally abolished in the United States over 150 years, the country is still home to over 57,000 slav...
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Can I Do That? Music in Tableau
Ken FlerlageFebruary 10, 2018
I often think about unusual things I’d like to try to create in Tableau. These ideas tend to be a little “out there” and have little to n...
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Rectangular Loom Art in Tableau
Ken FlerlageFebruary 03, 2018
A few months ago, I shared a process for creating Loom Art in Tableau . I was thrilled with the response it received and even more thrill...
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Image Swapping in Tableau
Ken FlerlageJanuary 31, 2018
I want to share a little trick that I just discovered. I’m sure I’m not the first to discover it (and probably not the first to write abo...
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Polygonize Images and Other Vector Graphics Fun in Tableau
Ken FlerlageJanuary 27, 2018
Last June, Nicco Cirone wrote a brilliant blog post for the Information Lab called Polygons to the people! Polygonize any imagefor Tablea...
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Creating a 3D Star Map in Tableau
Ken FlerlageJanuary 19, 2018
For some time now, I’ve been wanting to create a sort of map of the visible stars, but was never quite sure how to accomplish it. But, af...
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Comment Your Calcs
Ken FlerlageJanuary 12, 2018
I’m sure there are plenty of blog posts out there about using comments in Tableau, but I’m going to write another one, just to share my p...
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Percentage Gauges in Tableau
Ken FlerlageJanuary 08, 2018
Update April 18, 2020 : This has become one of my most popular blogs since I first wrote it back in 2018. Unfortunately, I’ve found tha...
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2017: A Year of Learning
Ken FlerlageJanuary 03, 2018
I’ve enjoyed reading people’s 2017 “year in review” blogs, so I decided to write one myself, partially because I’m proud of my work this ...
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End The Backlog
Ken FlerlageJanuary 02, 2018
Law enforcement and state governments across the US have a dirty little secret—the rape kit backlog problem. End the Backlog is an ini...
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