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Converting Non-Date Time Dimensions in Tableau

Date functions are some of the most powerful Tableau features, but what happens when you have a time-based dimension that’s not in a standard date format?  I recently encountered this challenge with a client project. …

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Six Favorite Tableau Tips, Tricks and Hacks to Enhance Dashboards

For many companies, Tableau is the data viz tool of choice to monitor and communicate performance in ways that various levels of the organization can quickly and easily understand. At Evolytics, our clients’ needs frequently …

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2019 Evolytics Royals Outing

It’s the best time of the year again, Evolytics day at the K! Our team lived up to the motto, work hard; play hard, by taking our annual trip out to a Royals game. The …

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Hacking Cross-Database Unions in Tableau: Use Case Summary and Tutorial

The Challenge: Locating, shaping, and aggregation cross-database data One of our clients needed an executive-level, company-wide dashboard to analyze metrics across all business units and in aggregate for the last two fiscal years. The dashboard …

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How to Change Date Aggregation on X-Axis in Tableau Using Parameters for Time Series and Trend Analysis

This post is part of our Six Favorite Tableau Tips, Tricks and Hacks to Enhance Dashboards collection. The Problem Tableau makes selecting and changing date dimension aggregations very easy when building a worksheet view. However, unless an …

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How to Dynamically Change Axis Measures and Formats in Tableau Using Parameters

This post is part of our Six Favorite Tableau Tips, Tricks and Hacks to Enhance Dashboards collection. Tableau is a powerful data visualization and analysis tool that can easily represent several metrics in one visual. Sometimes …

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Performance Analysis Using Conditional Formatting in Tableau with Custom Step Color Palette

This post is part of our Six Favorite Tableau Tips, Tricks and Hacks to Enhance Dashboards collection. Conditional formatting, or color-coding functionality, in Tableau adds visual cues to the insights in our analysis. Especially for …

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Using Placeholders to Position Data Points Exactly Where You Want in Tableau

This post is part of our Six Favorite Tableau Tips, Tricks and Hacks to Enhance Dashboards collection. Tableau is a powerful and flexible data visualization tool, but sometimes you must use Tableau features in unexpected ways to …

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Using Reference Lines to Label Totals on Stacked Bar Charts in Tableau

This post is part of our Six Favorite Tableau Tips, Tricks and Hacks to Enhance Dashboards collection. Coloring a bar chart by a dimension in Tableau provides you with a way to visualize at a lower …

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Adobe Launch Extension: An In-Depth Look at the Channel Source Identifier

The Channel Source Identifier enables real-time personalization capabilities Recent posts on the Evolytics blog outlined our approach to building custom Adobe Launch extensions. From developing and selecting ideas, to extension development and documentation, it’s all …

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