Best of the Tableau Web: Bilingual blogs, interactive color legends, cross database unions and more

Welcome to the March edition of Best of the Tableau Web: our monthly roundup of tips and tricks from our amazing community. This month, I wanted to highlight three blogs I’ve been enjoying:

• Rosario Gauna is based in Mexico, and her posts are not only imaginative and helpful, but she also writes them in both Spanish and English!
• I’m also enjoying Lorena Vazquez’s work. Her posts have fun titles (Data Source, Why You No Worky?) and she consistently writes fantastic content about Tableau Server, which is just as important as the “shiny” dataviz stuff.
• Finally, I’ve been continually impressed by the UK’s Data School blog. The Data School is a four-month intensive Tableau-training program led by Zen Master Hall of Fame member Andy Kriebel. He encourages his students to blog about big and small ideas. What’s impressed me recently is the quality of the small tips that are easy to digest and apply. I recommend everyone take this approach: share your tips, both the simple and the complex.

With that, keep on blogging, and enjoy this month’s roundup:

Oliver Clarke Just The Tips 1 – Extra Colourful Dimension
VizWiz Creating Runkeeper Tile Maps with Alteryx & Tableau
Data Ink Basic bars, intentional design
Nora-Ann Weststrate Tableau: creating interactive colour legends
Tom Pilgrem How to find the 2nd value in a date range
Jevon Da Costa Understanding the calculation fields for constructing a trellis chart in Tableau
Timothy Manning How To Make A Clean Diverging Bar Chart
Gauthier Bonnot Prevent Tableau from Recalculating your Table Calcs after Filtering
Robbin Vernooij Custom Pin Drop Location Symbols in Tableau fixed on Long-Lat

Ken Flerlage Can I Do That? Coloring in Tableau
Vizible Difference Multi-Dimensional Data Densification From 2 Rows
Sons of Hierarchies I hate my Tableau Public Profile …let me explain.
Ideas and Reflections Worth Sharing Inspiration is All Around Me…
TableauFit Push, Pull, or Punish
Adventures in Viz Gender Inequality in Nobel Prizes
Data Bard Data Literacy & User Adoption
Questions in Dataviz Do we take data visualisation too seriously?
Ryan Sleeper Why do you visualize data?
mikevizneros Experimental
Adolfo Hernandez Holy Non-Standard Visualizations Batman!

Lorena Talks Data Data source, why you no worky?

VizPainter Cross Database Union & the other MAX/MIN functions in Tableau
Tableauing Tableau ETL
ROSARIOVIZ Small Multiple Candy Points Only with Text?
Vizible Difference #TweakThursday 39: On Viz Design with Bézier Curve
DataBlick Layering data for custom Tableau visualizations

Timo Tautenhahn Tableau Extension API – Write Back – Source Code