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Create Pareto Chart and Box Plot Chart in Tableau

This week I took a stab at creating both a Pareto chart and Box Plot chart. A Pareto chart is a dual chart with bars and a line graph; individual values are represented by bars and the building cumulative total is represented by a line graph. Named after Italian engineer Vilfredo Pareto who made the…
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Strengthen Your Dashboards with Parameters

What are parameters? Parameters are a workbook variable that is defined as a number, date or string. It can act as a filter, reference or replace a value in your data source. With parameters you can also create ‘parameter actions’ that let’s the user dynamically change set parameters when interacting with the viz. I like…
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Creating a Waterfall Chart in Tableau

A waterfall chart is a type of bar chart that can explain net change of a measure from across all its contributing cohorts. This is a bar chart that is mostly used in the financial services industry. Analyzing change over time can show attribution of change to specific groups to the overall change of said…
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Resume Writing with Tableau

How many of you have been caught in that never ending cycle of submitting resumes during your job search? You find yourself in stuck in a numbers game; working hard to send so many resumes to only get a fraction of those submissions returned with a call for an interview. However, you don’t stop there…,…
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Resurrecting An Old Visualization

This week I take a look at a prior dashboard I made in the past (in my Tableau Public profile) and using the same data give the dashboard a tableau makeover. Dashboard: I take a look at average Fahrenheit temperatures in my hometown of El Paso, TX. It is located in West Texas and is…