James Goodall
Tableau Bitesize: Relative AND Custom Date Ranges
Consider this scenario – when your users open a dashboard, you want it to display a recent period, let’s say the latest 4 weeks. But at...
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James Goodall
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
Tableau Bitesize: Progress To Target
This is a quick summary post just to group together a number of other posts I have published recently. Rather than a single bitesize blog...
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James Goodall
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
Tableau Bitesize: Progress To Target - Filled Shape Chart
This bitesize post details how to create a filled shape chart This is cheating a little bit, because to think of the name, you’d expect...
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James Goodall
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
Tableau Bitesize: Progress To Target - Bullet Chart
This post details how to create a bullet chart from scratch The Tableau experts among you may be aware that the bullet chart is actually...
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James Goodall
- Jan 8, 2021
- 3 min
Tableau Bitesize: Progress To Target - Gauge Chart
This gauge chart is the type people most commonly think of when they hear the words gauge chart, but it’s not quite as straight forward...
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James Goodall
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
Tableau Bitesize: Progress To Target - Needle Gauge Chart
This post will go through the process of creating what I’ll call a ‘Needle Gauge’ chart (simply to differentiate it from the typical...
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James Goodall
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
Tableau Bitesize: Progress To Target - Plum Pudding Chart
This post will detail how to make a circular waffle (or plum pudding) chart, and is only possible thanks to this blog post by Kizley...
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James Goodall
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
Tableau Bitesize: Progress To Target - Waffle Chart
This chart type was only made possible for me by the one and only Andy Kriebel in this video and this post will basically follow the same...
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James Goodall
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
Tableau Bitesize: Progress To Target - Rounded Progress Bar
This chart is very similar to the progress bar chart type, but looks a little neater (in my opinion anyway), and only requires a little...
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James Goodall
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
Tableau Bitesize: Progress To Target - Progress Bar Chart
This post will detail how to create a progress bar chart that shows progress towards a 100% goal Essentially this is a 100% stacked bar...
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James Goodall
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
Tableau Bitesize: Progress To Target - Slider
This post will detail how to create a slider chart that shows progress towards a 100% goal. I have previous written a post that goes...
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James Goodall
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
Tableau Bitesize: Progress To Target - Donut Chart
This post will go through the process of creating a donut chart in Tableau Actually – to call it a donut chart is a little misleading –...
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James Goodall
- Dec 11, 2020
- 2 min
Tableau Bitesize: Diamond Heatmap with LOD Ranks
This blog post will go through the process of how to create a diamond shaped heatmap, using LODs to calculate rankings If you read my...
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James Goodall
- Dec 3, 2020
- 8 min
#IronQuest: Black & White
After telling myself I’d be entering #IronQuest on multiple occasions and failing in all my attempts to do so, I decided that this month...
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James Goodall
- Nov 27, 2020
- 2 min
Tableau Bitesize: Rounded Bar Charts with Gradient Fill
It's been a little while since I last posted a blog; with so much going on both in my personal and professional life I've let this slip a...
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James Goodall
- Oct 2, 2020
- 3 min
Tableau Bitesize: Buffer Calculations
This blog post will detail the process of using buffer calculations, a new piece of functionality that was introduced in Tableau 2020.1,...
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James Goodall
- Sep 11, 2020
- 4 min
#MakeoverMonday Week 21: How To
Well this one is going back a while, but I thought it might be interesting to re-visit an old viz I created for #MakeoverMonday week 21...
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James Goodall
- Aug 28, 2020
- 2 min
Interacting with SharePoint Online documents using Python
My organisation has been using SharePoint Online for a few years now as a way to collaborate both across the organisation and with...
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James Goodall
- Aug 14, 2020
- 3 min
FME & APIs: Enhancing your postcode data with geospatial elements
OK so you’ve got a list of postcodes and you want to visualise that in something like Tableau or ArcGIS, what do you do? Tableau luckily...
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James Goodall
- Aug 11, 2020
- 2 min
Tableau Bitesize: Bump Charts
In this post we'll be looking at how to create a bump chart in Tableau. This can be a really cool way of showing changes in relative...
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