Best of the Tableau Web: Starting a blog

Welcome to the Best of the Tableau Web for July 2019. As always, I’ve enjoyed the excellent mix of great visualization tips (such as Klaus Schulte’s ideas about encoding change over time), data preparation tips (such as Eric Parker’s post on removing duplicate records in Tableau Prep), and articles about changing the culture in your organization (Kris Curtis on Just Eat).

Klaus, Eric, Kris, and many others, have been blogging for some time. A lot of people looking to start a blog ask me how to get started because they’re unsure of what to write about. My advice is to follow your passion. If you care about the topic, your passion will be present in the writing—and people will respond to that. The Tableau platform is wide and deep enough to support blogs about any topics. You’re a coder? Write about extensions and Python integration. Are you a designer or are passionate about design? Tell us about parallels from other areas of design. Is data science your jam? Can you bring algorithms into Tableau? The list goes on.

I also hear concerns from new bloggers about the level of detail you want to go into when writing. That is your choice too. There is plenty of space and interest to share simple tips, describe advanced coding techniques, or write philosophical pieces. The single most important thing to do: write about what makes you excited. Don’t write to try and be someone you’re not. In this diverse data community, there is a place for you and your interests. As always, enjoy this month’s posts. Follow me on Twitter @acotgreave to keep up with posts as I read them!

Jose Valero Create a Control Chart
Eric Parker How to Expand and Contract Worksheets in Tableau
Sarah Dorfman Removing Borders from Tableau Worksheet
Kevin Flerlage Automatically Hide Your Vizzes When Publishing to Tableau Public
Michael Bracchi Add a Customizable Point at the End of Your Line!
Ken Flerlage 4 Ways to Connect Tableau to MongoDB
Eric Parker How to Replace Null Values with Dashes in Tableau
Andy Cotgreave #TableauTipTuesday Week 29 – Using Parameter to change your small multiples
Joe Beaven Using a row in a Datasource as a reference line
Sarag Dorfman Turning “Null” Dates into Blank Values in Tableau

Toan Hoang Tableau Magic / A Year of Magic
Josh Smith Data Visualization Feedback: Evaluating Choices, Not Checklists
Dorian Banutoiu Evolution and Variation with “line & slope” charts in Tableau
Ivett Kovács Retro Games
Anya A'Hearn Feeding the screen-time beast with shifting mobile metrics
Toan Hoang Hex Maps in Tableau
David Murphy Podcast Guest Criteria & Insights
Kris Curtis Launching a self-service analytics programme (part 1)
Swexler Benevolent Manipulation in Data Visualization
Laine Caruzca What is business analytics and why is it important?
Jeff Plattner #MakeoverMonday Week 2019-31 Diary
Ken Flerlage Experiments with Ternary Plots in Tableau
Kevin Flerlage The Tableau Chart Catalog
Swexler The Churn Dashboard Explained
Emma Whyte Becoming data-driven: three data governance strategies
Emma Whyte Becoming data-driven: Simplyhealth’s governance journey
Klaus Schulte Encoding Change in Tableau Line Charts
Ella Worsdale Dude, where’s my dashboard?!
Ben Moss Embedding Templates into Tableau Desktop

Dustin Wyers Advance with Assist: Multi-Number Formats for Single Calculations
Toan Hoang Tableau 2019.2: MakePoint and MakeLine
Dustin Wyers Advance with Assist: Filling in Null Records Without Filtering
Timo Tautenhahn Row-Level Security with Initial SQL
Raphael Teufel The Ultimate Guide to Year-over-Year Comparisons in Tableau
Eric Parker Fixing Duplicate Records in Tableau
Debbie Nemirovsky Tableau 101: Table Calculations, Part I
Klaus Schulte Polygon Waterfall Charts
Robert Rouse A Template for Date Calculations in Tableau
Eric Parker Converting Numeric Fields (1.5) into Time Fields (1:30) in Tableau
Michael Bracchi Seeing Stars (*) – Asterisks in Tableau
Kent Sloan Basket Analysis Using Parameter Actions and LOD Calculations
Joshua Milligan Spatial Joins in Tableau with Excel, Text, Anything

James Austin Demystifying how to Deselect Buttons in Tableau
Andy Kriebel #TableauTipTuesday: How to Create a Parallel Coordinates Plot
Toan Hoang Tableau QT: Control Charts
Lorna Eden #TableauTipTuesday Week 31 – How to use Show Hide Container
Ken Flerlage Experiments with Ternary Plots in Tableau

Filippos Lymperopoulos Concatenation – Filippos Lymperopoulos – Medium
Rosario Gauna Asymmetric Drill Down using Parameter Actions
Raphael Teufel Swap Measures Using Parameter Actions
Filippos Lymperopoulos Parameter Actions: Concatenation
Keith Dykstra Improving the Sheet-Swapping UX with Parameter Actions in Tableau: Part 1
David Pires Parameter Actions – ivisualize.co.uk
Keith Dykstra Improving the Sheet-Swapping UX with Parameter Actions in Tableau: Part 2
Andy Kriebel #TableauTipTuesday: How to Compare Ranks within a Dimension with Set Actions

Tom Christian Tableau Prep & Python | VizFox – The Blog
Joshua Milligan Python strikes again! More Python scripts for Tableau Prep
Rosario Gauna Average of the last 7 days in Sales in Tableau Prep Builder
Joshua Milligan Python in Tableau Prep: simple useful scripts
Eric Parker New Feature: How to Unpivot (Transpose) Data Using Tableau Prep
Larry Clark Using Tableau Prep’s new Python integration to predict Titanic survivors – TabBlogs
Tom Christian Script Update | Import Stocks v2
Carl Allchin How to...Pivot
Rosario Gauna Regex in TableauPrep

Toan Hoang Tableau Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Andre de Vries Web Data Connector for Tableau Public
Craig Bloodworth Export All Extension for Tableau v2 Released
Konstantin Greger Why Decide? Using Both R and Python in Tableau – at the Same Time!
Craig Bloodworth Extracting before you can say Comma Separated Variable
Joe Stokes APIs – Open up to a world of data (Part 1)
Larry Clark Using Tableau Prep’s new Python integration to predict Titanic survivors