Best of Tableau Web: December 2021

Welcome to 2022. With the end of one year and the start of another, it’s a good time to reflect and renew. I enjoy reading your summaries of recent times. Sarah Bartlett’s review of the year is always thorough and an inspiration. Donna Coles reflects on Workout Wednesday using a viz. The Flerlage Twins take a longer view and look at their ten favourite Tableau Public vizzes of all time. For some people, the reflections are about endings (and new beginnings). Spencer Bauke explains why he’s stepping down from SportsVizSunday. Ann Jackson ends her four year run at Workout Wednesday. Thank you to Ann and Spencer for all their contributions to these projects over the years and hello to the next generation taking stewardship of these projects.

At this time of year, we also look forward. I recently wrote about the impact Makeover Monday has had on the community; the post included multiple reflections from other members of the community. While Makeover Monday came to an end last year, there are many existing and new projects to fill the gap and grow your skills. Three I’m excited about are Back 2 Viz Basics, Data Plus Music and Games Night Viz. 

As always, I encourage you to share your learnings. Whether you write blogs (like Donna Coles) or do videos, articulating your learnings cements them in your own mind. Don’t be intimidated by more established authors, or by people who’ve learnt more about Tableau than you: remember, all those people started somewhere, and were looking for content relevant to their levels. Your voice matters!

Finally, if you think you’ll work better by collaborating with someone else, go straight to Nicole Klassan’s blog, where she shares what she’s learnt by working with Oana Tudorancea. Nicole even has a place where you can find others to collaborate with. Check out #VizCollab.

With that, enjoy Best of the Tableau Web with tips, tricks, inspiration and more produced by the Tableau community. For updates throughout the month, follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn, and check out the list of blogs I follow for Best of the Tableau Web. If you don’t see yours on the list, I invite you to add it here.

Inspiration

• Tips for Collaborating in Tableau

  Nicole Klassen

• Data viz Colors: The Good the Bad (and the Ugly)

  Nir Smilga

• Announcing the #DataPlusMusic Project

  Sean Miller, HipsterVizNinja

• A Typology for Dashboard Insights: Contextual, Functional, and Strategic Data Points

  Phil Perrin, Tessellation

• Proportional Brushing - How To

  Gabriela Mitache, The Data School UK

• Farewell #SportsVizSunday

  Spencer Baucke

• 5 Tips to Visually Enhance your Tableau Data Visualizations

  Saba Gebreyohannes, Biztory

• Let’s visualise #WorkoutWednesday submissions

  Donna Coles, Donna + DataViz

• Improving business performance through data literacy

  Ella Worsdale, Dataliciously Ella

• 2021: A Reflection

  Sarah Bartlett, Sarah Loves Data

• How do we transform information into art?

  Neil Richards, Questions in Dataviz

• Our Top Ten Favorite Tableau Vizzes Ever!

  Ken and Kevin Flerlage, The Flerlage Twins/em>

Iron Viz

• Iron Quest Sporting Heroes & Legends – Recap

  Sarah Bartlett, Sarah Loves Data

Prep

• How to… create comma separated strings in Prep

  Carl Allchin, Preppin’ Data

• My Top Five Tableau Prep Solutions

  Beth Kairys, InterWorks

Server

• Row-Level Security Basics in Tableau

  Grant Eisenmenger, InterWorks

• How to Implement Column-Level Security in Tableau

  Ethan Lang, Playfair Data

Tips and Tricks

• How to Create a Variation Chart

  Rosario Gauna, RosarioViz

• How to build Tableau's most flexible data range selector in the world

  Tim Franken, Biztory

• Frequency Matrix Redux

  Rosario Gauna, RosarioViz

• How to Create a Custom Geographic Role in Tableau

  Alice McKnight, Tessellation

• How to Embed and Edit Formatted Commentary in Tableau

  James Zirbes, Tessellation

• How to Unhide (Almost) Anything in Tableau

  Eric Parker, OneNumber

• Can you recreate this drill down?

  Donna Coles, Donna + DataViz

• How to Filter by Rank Across Multiple Worksheets

  Andy Kriebel, VizWiz

• How to Build a Rank Chart in Tableau?

  Saqib Saeed, The Data School Australia

• Charting Project Flow via Multiple Data Densifications

  Alexander Mou, Vizible Difference

• How to Enhance End-User Experience: Cascading Multi-Select Filters in Tableau

  Katrina Johnson, Tessellation

• Tableau Reference Lines Tips and Tricks

  Eric Parker, OneNumber

• Map Layers with Multiple Data Sources

  Marc Reid, datavis.blog

• Can you build a table with one measure?

  Donna Coles, Donna + DataViz

• Context Filters in Tableau and Its Importance

  Vaibhav Patel, The Data School Australia

• How to do dynamically group in Tableau?

  Camille Shi, The Data School Australia

• Custom Mapping With Mapbox + Tableau

  Ricky Cai, The Data School Australia

• Bar in Bar Chart and Reference Line (Part 2)

  Camille Shi, The Data School Australia

Visualizations

View last month’s Viz of the Day on Tableau Public gallery.