Tableau-Powered Fireworks, Partial-Period Tip among Best of the Tableau Web

Talk about a Tableau way to ring in the new year. The folks at the Information Lab Germany kicked off 2016 in style: with a fireworks display animated in Tableau!

If you’d like to reverse-engineer their work, download the workbook here.

With Tableau, you never stop learning. For instance, Andy Cotgreave recently learned you can move labels in Tableau. I recently learned that the order of dimensions on the marks shelf (as well as how they are sorted) influences the position of marks in view, as was pointed out by @helpmedatablick. Ever felt like you have no control over the algorithms underlying the treemaps and bubble charts? Take charge!

The sort and order of the dimensions on the Marks Card in @Tableau determines how the marks will be plotted: pic.twitter.com/eHVIlrMO8o

— Help Me, DataBlick! (@helpmedatablick) January 20, 2016

Here are some more food for thought, from basic tips to the super-hacky and everything in between:

VizPainter Partial Period Panic
CoEnterprise Tableau Tuesday: Legendary Legends
Drawing with Numbers Moving the Center Line of a Bar Chart with a Gantt Chart
Evolytics How to Make a Dual-Axis Combo Chart

Tableau Renders Recreating WarGames with Tableau and Mapbox
Alexloth.com How to Perform Text Mining at the Speed of Thought Directly in Tableau?
Data + Science Using Tableau with Reveal.js

The Information Lab Easy Peasy Tableua Server Upgrades
InterWorks The Tableau Performance Checklist: Local Computations - Server Performance

Wallpapering Fog Six Tricks to Make Your Data Visualisations Look Better
Fubiz (French) The Minimalist Color Palettes of 2015

Priceonomics How William Cleveland Turned Data Visualization into a Science
Well-Formed Data Little Boxes
Storytelling with Data Is There a Single right Answer?

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