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July 24, 2025

How to Add Two Values to One Parameter in Tableau

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Most people think parameters can only hold one value. But what if I told you… you can hack them to hold two? In this quick tutorial, I’ll show you how to build a dynamic date range using just a single parameter... yes, really. You’ll get: ✅ The exact calculations ✅ Step-by-step setup ✅ A powerful technique few Tableau users know Get the data → https://data.world/vizwiz/coffee-chain-2041-2023 Get a copy of the workbook → https://nlt.kit.com/multi-parameter Interact with the workbook below the video...

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June 20, 2024

How to Simultaneously Highlight & Deselect with a Parameter Action in Tableau

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In this video, we’ll dive into an advanced technique to enhance your Tableau visualizations: simultaneously highlighting and deselecting marks using parameter actions. This is a great skill for making your dashboards more interactive and user-friendly. 

What You Will Learn:
- Highlight & Deselect Marks: Learn how to use parameter actions to highlight selected marks while deselecting others, improving the clarity and focus of your data stories.
- Dynamic Labeling: Discover how to label ONLY the selected bar, making it easier to convey specific insights without cluttering your visualizations.

Tutorial Highlights:
1. Introduction to Parameter Actions: A brief overview of what parameter actions are and why they are powerful tools in Tableau.
2. Step-by-Step Guide: Follow along as I demonstrate how to set up parameter actions to achieve the simultaneous highlight and deselect effect.
3. Labeling Techniques: Learn the trick to dynamically label only the selected mark, enhancing the readability and professionalism of your dashboard.

By the end of this tutorial, you will have the skills to create more interactive and visually appealing Tableau dashboards that can captivate and inform your audience effectively.

October 31, 2023

How to Create a Year→Quarter→Month→Day Drilldown in Tableau

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Are you looking to take your Tableau skills to the next level? Do you want to create dashboards that offer a dynamic and interactive experience? 

Look no further! 

This comprehensive tutorial will walk you through the process of creating a Year→Quarter→Month→Day Drilldown in Tableau.

🔹 What You'll Learn:

1. How to set up 2 parameters for drilldown functionality

2. How to perform 9 simple calculations that power your dashboard

3. How to implement 8 simple dashboard actions for enhanced interactivity

4. Introduction to dynamic zone visibility

🔹 Who Should Watch:

1. Data analysts looking to expand their Tableau toolkit

2. Business intelligence professionals aiming for dynamic reporting

3. Anyone who wants to unlock the full potential of Tableau

🔹 Why This Tutorial is Unique:

1. Step-by-step guide for each component: Parameters, Calculations, and Dashboard Actions

2. Introduction to advanced Tableau functionalities like dynamic zone visibility

3. Reusable examples to cement your understanding

4. Tips and tricks for maximizing the utility of your drilldowns

Don't miss out on upgrading your Tableau skills. 

Let's dive into the world of advanced Tableau functionalities and take your dashboards to the next level! 

October 24, 2023

Master Containers: Build an Interactive Tableau Dashboard From Scratch

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In this video you will learn step-by-step how to create an interactive Tableau dashboard. 

We'll start with a 2 datasets:

1. Beverage sales
2. Custom shape for US states

I will show you how relationships work in Tableau to combine these two datasets.

Once we create the data set, we'll build all of the charts we need, create a parameter, and apply the filters.

We’ll create:

1. Summary key figures (KPIs)
2. A custom map of the US
3. A monthly breakdown as a line chart
4. Two bar charts for products and customers

Lastly, we'll make the dashboard dynamic and interactive using different filter types and a parameter and make sure everything updates automatically.

As a bonus, you’ll learn a lot about working with containers in Tableau.

Resources:
1. Data
3. Workbook (or click the image below)


October 3, 2023

Master Dynamic Zone Visibility in Tableau: Yearly to Monthly Calendar Drill Down

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Welcome to this comprehensive tutorial on creating a Yearly to Monthly Calendar Drill Down using Dynamic Zone Visibility in Tableau.

📌 What You Will Learn

In this video, you'll discover how to use Tableau's Dynamic Zone Visibility feature to effortlessly switch between yearly and monthly calendar views. If you've been looking to add more flexibility and dynamism to your Tableau dashboards, this tutorial is designed for you.

🔑 Key Takeaways

- Understand the concept of Dynamic Zone Visibility
- Set up a yearly calendar view in Tableau
- Implement drill-down functionalities to transition to a monthly calendar view
- Practical tips and tricks for optimizing your Tableau dashboards

🔗 Additional Resources

- Data
- Workbook


August 8, 2023

How to Master the 3-Level Drill Down in Tableau (with Dynamic Zone Visibility)

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Welcome to my guide on mastering the 3-Level Drill Down in Tableau!

In this tutorial, I show you step-by-step how to make the most of using dynamic zone visibility to create this functionality. We'll go through both scatter plot drill downs from Region → State → Postal code and then replicate that as a bar chart. 

You can easily make this a map drill down by changing the chart type. That's it!

🔍 What you'll learn in this video: 

1. The basics of drill down functionality in Tableau
2. Hands-on demonstrations, tips, and best practices
3. How to interact with the data

💡 Why is this important?

Drill down capabilities allow analysts to explore data from a broad overview down to granular details. By mastering the 3-level drill down, you can uncover hidden patterns, insights, and trends that might be overlooked in higher-level analyses. 

📌 Prerequisites: 

A basic understanding of Tableau's interface and primary functions will be helpful, but beginners will be able to follow along as well!

If you are following along, be sure to pause the video along the way as you repeat the steps.



July 31, 2023

#MakeoverMonday 2023 Week 30 - Drinking Fountains in Milan

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In this video, I analyzed the locations of drinking fountains in Milan.

You'll learn about:
  • Joining spatial data sources
  • Parameters
  • Hexbin maps
  • Custom shapes
  • Using mapbox maps
  • Dashboard layout containers
  • Dynamic Zone Visibility
  • Parameter Actions
  • Custom colors
  • Drill down / drill up actions
and more.

Enjoy the video and check out the viz below.


July 18, 2023

UNLIMITED Charts, Metrics, and Number Formats in Tableau with Dynamic Zone Visibility

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Dynamic zone visibility opens up so many use cases. Previously, I had to do some number formatting tricks to show two different formats on one chart.

But with DZV, I can create an unlimited number of combinations of charts, metrics, and number formats.

In this video, I show you four examples to get you started. 

Download the workbook here. Interact with it below the video.


June 12, 2023

#MakeoverMonday 2023 Week 24 - Cereal and the Green Revolution: Yields vs. Land Use

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At the global level, how has crop production changed over the last fifty years? 

In this Watch Me Viz live stream, I analyzed how the yield and land use of producing cereal has changed over the last 50 years.

I really liked the original visualization, so I rebuilt it in Tableau. I learned how to use dynamic zone visibility, layout containers, and more. Check it out.



Resources:

1. Data - https://data.world/makeovermonday/2023w24

2. Final Dashboard - https://tabsoft.co/3P3Sdl3


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March 1, 2023

#MakeoverMonday 2023 Week 9 - Are you drinking a safe amount of caffeine?

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My goal for week 9 was to take this original matrix table...


and turn it into an interactive chart that allows the user to know if they are drinking a safe amount of caffeine. 

Check out Watch Me Viz below. Thanks to the feedback from viewers, we came up with the idea of letting the user pick (via parameters) their drink type, the drink size, and how many they drink per day. I calculated the mg of caffeine per ml and then multiplied that by the drink size and the number of drinks per day.

I spent time showing how to effectively use containers (you can never get enough practice with containers) and then showed how to create a mobile version as well. I think you'll learn a lot by watching and following along with the final build. 

If you are looking for 1:1 or group coaching sessions, I can help! Get in touch here.


February 20, 2023

#MakeoverMonday 2023 Week 8 - The Cost Effectiveness of Protein Sources

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This week we explored the cost of 20g of protein in various foods. During Watch Me Viz, I showed how to create toggles to allow the user to filter by vegan and vegetarian foods. I did this with parameter actions; if you want to learn more, watch the video below.

In the end, though, my fancy filtering with parameter actions didn't quite work out. I hadn't account for the option when the user might want to look at all foods. So I ended up using basic filtering. I overcooked the whole process, but I bet you'll learn something anyway.

I then went through the entire dashboard design process using containers, padding, shading and more. Check that out if you're interested in learning how to use layout contains.

Here's the #WatchMeViz recording, followed by the interactive viz. Enjoy and thanks for watching!



November 8, 2022

#MakeoverMonday Week 45 - Who Americans Spend Their Time With

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I found this week's data set super interesting, but also super sad in some ways, like people are more and more alone as they age. Or people spending less time with their partners when they are much older, clearly showing when people typically pass away.

I found the original visualization quite good, so during #WatchMeViz, I spend the hour replicating it. You can see during the video how much time formatting takes, and how I got annoyed about a new bug with colors. In the end, I go pretty close to the original, but some of the highlighting, and particularly the speed of the interactions couldn't be replicated in Tableau; Tableau simply isn't as responsive.

My viz is below the video or check it out here.


October 5, 2022

How to Create a Starburst Chart

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Starburst charts, sometimes called sunburst charts or circular timelines, are one method of displaying data over time. They may look cool, but they aren't exactly easy to understand. If you are going to use them, I'd advise you to check with your audience first to ensure they understand how to read them.

In this video, I take you through how to build a single starburst as well as a series of starburst charts as small multiples or trellis chart.

All of the calculations are in the description for the video here. You can download the workbook below. 


September 27, 2022

Parameter Actions: Geographical Drill Down in Tableau

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Thanks for watching this video about performing a geographic drill down in Tableau!

In this video I will walk you through:
- How to drill down from Region to State
- How to get back to the State level
- How to create the parameter and parameter action

Download the workbook here.

September 19, 2022

#MakeoverMonday Week 38 - American Business Applications

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Well, this was a pretty epic fail. No, it was a really big fail. Those that tuned in to Watch Me Viz will be well aware of my struggles with this data set. I don't know why. Maybe it was a concentration issue. I hope it was still useful to everyone, and I hope it was good to see someone with so much experience still struggle.

My original idea was to compare each State to the US average. I got the calculations right, but it was thoroughly uninteresting. Basically, the variance rarely changed. Therefore, there was nothing to see in the analysis.

I stopped the livestream after 90 minutes, the audience and I had suffered enough. Afterwards, I took a break and came back to Tableau. This time, I thought more clearly through the solution I was trying to create. Basically, I wanted something very much like the original, just a bit better looking.

It turns out I was overcomplicating the implementation and the calculations. Parameters were a much, much better solution and allowed me the flexibility I needed to create the month over month calculations. 

I'd encourage you to check out the video. I tried lots of different things and explained what I was doing along the way, so you're sure to learn something. My final dashboard is below the video.

Have a great week everyone and thank you for being so supportive of Makeover Monday.


August 29, 2022

#MakeoverMonday 2022 Week 35 - The World's Biggest Military Spenders

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Makeover Monday is back! Every Monday I'll be running a #WatchMeViz and every Wednesday, Eva will be running #VizReview. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for reminders of the latest events.

https://youtube.com/andykriebel

This week was a makeover of a visualization by Visual Capitalist about the top 10 military spenders. During Watch Me Viz, I iterated through 15 different charts before settling on a bump chart. If you want to learn about sets, parameters, table calculations, containers and more, watch the video below.

Below the video you can see my viz, or click here. Enjoy! If you need clarifications on anything, please comment on the video here.


August 23, 2022

How to Create a Two-Level Drill Down in Tableau

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There are tons of ways to create a single level drill down, but if you’re having issues creating a second drill down, this video is a guaranteed way to help you fix this problem.

Additional video - Single Level Drill Down 

July 5, 2022

How to Create a Hexbin Map in Tableau

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In this tip, I show you how to create a hexbin map in Tableau. But first, let me explain the purpose, benefits and drawback of a hexbin map.

There are countless times when I have been asked to display way too much data on a map. Sometimes I’ve been asked to display thousands of points on a map..but why? I know no one will understand it. 

A hexbin map uses hexagons to divide an area into multiple parts and assign a color gradient to each hexagon. This chart type is used to visualize density, where the hexagons dividing the whole space into discrete units of equal size. 

This video is going to help you communicate the concentration of data on maps more effectively and give you another option for visualizing geospatial data. I’ll show you how to create a hexbin map based on both the value and the rank, giving you two options depending on your use case.

If you want to follow along, these are the data sources I used:

1. Austin Bike Accidents - https://bit.ly/AustinBikeAccidents

2. Austin Zip Codes Shapefile - https://bit.ly/AustinZipCodes

3. Price Summary - https://bit.ly/PriceSummary

June 20, 2022

#WatchMeViz - Workout Wednesday 2022 Week 1

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Below is the livestream and link to the workbook I created as I took on Workout Wednesday 2022 week 1 - FAA Wildlife Strikes. Enjoy!


April 19, 2022

How to Calculate YTD vs. Prior YTD Based on a Selected Date

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In this tip, I show you how to calculate year over year change based on a date selected with a parameter. The use case is to calculate YTD sales depending on the date selected and compare it to the prior YTD sales for the same period.