Best of the Tableau Web: Welcome new bloggers, set actions, and more

Hello and welcome to Best of the Tableau Web. It’s a big list this month for two reasons: first of all, we skipped a month. Second, lots of you responded to our call for new blogs to follow last month. Thank you to everyone who added their blog to the list. I’ve updated the list of blogs I’m following. Keep the ideas coming. Your posts make my commute more fun!

A post that caught my eye from the new blogs was by Marc Reid, who’s been playing with the Tableau 2019.2 beta. A new feature in the beta allows you to show or hide layout containers with a toggle button. We designed that feature primarily to allow people to tidy up dashboards by hiding filters when they aren’t necessary. But Marc took the feature and came up with a fantastic idea: toggle a help screen on and off to help new or occasional users. It’s always a pleasure to see the feature being used in creative ways.

Another shout out goes to Rachel Kurtz at Interworks who took another new feature, Set Actions, and shows a way of building sets across multiple views. Her primary use case is geographic data, but this could be applied to many more areas.

With that, here’s our list. In the meantime - keep on blogging!

Adam Green Itu World Triathlon Series | Outstanding Performances
Data Revelations More about Population Pyramids (and why this community is amazing)
Kevin Flerlage Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Radial Bar Chart?
DataBlick "Off the Grid" - Building Lo-Fi dashboards to create use and value
Sarah Loves Data Data Iron Quest–Analyzing Crime Data
Datasaurus-Rex Find a Zen dashboard (2019 update)
Über den Autor Interactive Company Reports
Kris Curtis Troubleshooting 101
Viz Zen Data Your Tableau Resume/Biography Doesn’t Have to be Boring
Ken Flerlage 4 Tips for Mastering Tableau
Carly Capitula How to Create a Culture of Learning with Tableau
LearningTableauBlog Once, twice, three times a #MakeoverMonday
VizArtPandey Wisdom Tree – Kevin Flerlage
Luke Stanke Tips from the Team: Data Product Design

Data Musings How to make a strip plot in Tableau
Jonathan Allenby Tiny Tableau Tip: Auto-fill zeros in large numbers instead of typing them
Kofi Bonsu Adding an All Option to a Parameter Filter

David Spezia Tableau Extension: Writeback for SQL Server using Tableaufans.com’s MySQL Writeback as a Baseline
AppsForTableau TableauCraft! A building game with Tableau Extensions
Kolsuma Aktar Embedding your viz onto a html web page
Data + Science Using the Tableau Public API in 3 Easy Steps
Tableau and Behold! Apply All buttons in JavaScript and Extensions API
TabVizAnalytics Extract numbers from a string

VIZJOCKEY For The Very First() Time
Ken Flerlage Using Custom Animations in Tableau
Tableau Magic Tableau QT: Curved Lines
Ludovic Tavernier How to build a horizontal Marimekko in Tableau
Tableau Magic Tableau Magic EpicViz vol.1
Ken Flerlage Creating Radar/Spider Charts in Tableau
Ludovic Tavernier How to build an animated Bar Chart Race in Tableau
Luke Stanke Tutorial: Circular Sankey Diagram

Timo Tautenhahn How to write back data to Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL or SAP HANA?
Ritehesh Makkena How to write back data to SAP HANA?
Jackson Two Installing Tableau Server on Linux (Ubuntu LTS 16.04)
Robert Headington Tableau Server permissions part 1 – Assigning permissions
Matthew Orr Portals for Tableau 101: Multi-Server Setups
Colby Owens Unpacking the Built-in Scripts of Tableau Server
Scaling Tableau to Enterprise Automation – Workbook/Disk size governance