Even though Tableau has been round for a number of years now, there is a dearth of books out there to guide new users. To get the most out of Tableau, you don’t want to approach chart making in the same way that you do in Excel. The videos and webinars that Tableau offers are great, …
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Slopegraphs in Tableau
In Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and recently on his blog, he discusses the use of slopegraphs to show change over time. They are highly effective because you have both the text (the reader would likely want to know the individual values), the sorting, and the slope which allows you to understand the …
