Dawn Harrington

Tune in this Friday July 25th at 1 PM EST for how it all began #datafam #tableau with Rafael Guevara

How do you show Alaska and Hawaii in a Dashboard? Are you displaying a map in your dashboard and you have two states that are outside of the normal view? The use case I am referring to is displaying Alaska and Hawaii in a United States map.The issue...

Are you displaying a map in your dashboard and you have two states that are outside of the normal view? Check out my blog below for three possible solutions!

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Jeopardy - Tableau Style | Tableau Virtual Event - Do you want to learn more about Tableau? Join us for a fun game of trivia in the style of the Jeopardy game! We will ass...

Tableau - Jeopardy Style User Group Event! July 18th 4 pm EST

Do you want to learn more about Tableau? Join us for a fun game of trivia in the style of the Jeopardy game! The winning team members will receive a prize!

Sign up here > usergroups.tableau.com/events/detai...

Tableau Intermediate Bootcamp Checkout page for Tableau Intermediate Bootcamp.

Steve Adams and I are pairing up to teach a Tableau Intermediate to Advanced BOOTCAMP course! Why? We wanted to enable you to “hit the ground running” with next level concepts.

When July 15th, 16th and 22nd
Time 5 - 7:30 pm EST

Details here >
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How Do You Compare? Have you ever encountered a data set where you have to compare a person's score with an average score? What kind of visualization would you use? You could just do a simple bar chart with a Reference l...

Have you ever encountered a data set where you have to compare a person's score with an average score? What kind of visualization would you use?

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Videogames and Vizzes Vault YouTube video by Dawn Harrington

In case you missed it, here is the Video game and Vizzes Vault podcast from Friday. The famous Will Sutton, Louis Yu, Kate Crawford and myself talked about our fav video games and Tableau public Vizzes about video games! Check it out!

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Tomorrow at 11 am EST The famous Will Sutton, Louis Yu, Kate Crawford and I will be reviewing our favorite video games and #TableauPublic vizzes! Join us on my youtube channel > www.youtube.com/@Techtipsgirl or you can see it streamed live on my Linkedin profile!

Layout Schmayout, Use Tableau Template! If you are a beginner user in Tableau, you may not know what the best layout is for your dashboard. If you ever visit Tableau Public's Discover site here, there is a whole Business Dashboard section ...

New Blog Post! If you are a beginner user in #Tableau, you may not know what the best layout is for your dashboard. Did you know there are some Tableau templates out there for you to use? Check out my blog to see more information!

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Sensitive Data? Add an AFFIRM Button! Do you have a dashboard with sensitive data? Not only can you control access with row level filtering with the help of Tableau's ISMEMBEROF or USERNAME formulas, but what about customizing it even fur...

Do you have a dashboard with sensitive data? Do you want to have a custom message if they do not have access yet? OR If they do have access, do you want them to click on a button saying I AFFIRM to remind them the data they will see is sensitive in nature?
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This event is happening on my YouTube channel and also streamed live on my linked in. Check it out!! #tableau #datafam #tableaupublic

What Charts Can You Create With Measure Names / Measure Values? What is Tableau's Measure Names / Measure Values fields? If you are a beginner user, you may have noticed this field in your data pane. What does it do? In this blog, I provide four charts that were ...

New BLOG post! In this blog post I provide you with four chart examples where you can use Tableau's Measure Names / Measure Values fields. #tableau #tableautip #datafam
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I did the ChatGPT create image > challenge. Here was the prompt, "YOURNAME Tableau Visionary and Ambassador" across a single line of text. In the blister pack packaging, next to the figure, show the toy's accessories, including Tableau Logo, LinkedIn Logo, Alteryx Logo, Blue sky Logo” I added cats.

@vizdj.bsky.social and I are getting ready to light up the stage at #TC25 with our “Breaking Free From Spreadsheets” session on Tuesday at 9 am and 4:30 pm!

KPI Series: Reference Line Highlighting Trick In last week's blog post I discussed using Parameters for highlighting the background and text. This week I want to talk about another way of highlighting the background with the help of a Parameter a...

New Blog post! Following the next trick in my KPI Series. Use a reference line and a parameter to highlight the background of a KPI! #tableau #tableaupublic #tableautip

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#TC25 agenda builder is now available! Except for those of us whose cat won’t let us access it. #tableau #datafam
Check out Steve Adams and my session titled “Breaking Free from Spreadsheets: Turning Data into insights” feel free to show me pics of your 🐈 or 🐕!

KPI Series: Automatic Highlight Background and Text Swap In last week's blog Use KPI as a Filter! I reviewed several dashboards that allowed you to click on them to filter the rest of the dashboard! This week I want to discuss how to create Zak Geis's heade...

Here is the next blog in my KPI series! Shoutout to Zak Geis on his #tableaupublic dashboard! #datafam #tableau

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coming to a TC25 near you
#tableau, #datafam #tc25

The Data+Women New England Tableau User Group is thrilled to host a special panel discussion featuring Tableau experts Eva Murray and Lindsay Betzendahl!

📅 Date: Thursday, March 20th
🕕 Time: 12 - 1 pm EST
📍Where: meeting virtually! 🌏 lnkd.in/gnAPeK_2

Everyone is welcome!

Use KPI as a Filter! If you are new to Tableau you may have seen KPI or BANs at the top of a dashboard. This is considered a best practice by Tableau's eye tracking study here. But what about taking that design a step fu...

If you are new to Tableau you may have seen KPI or BANs at the top of a dashboard. But what about taking that design a step further and using them to filter the rest of the dashboard!

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How to Have a Difficult Conversation with your Client Is your client asking for something in a Tableau dashboard that doesn't make sense? Agreeing with them might seem easiest, but it's not always the best approach. You have the knowledge about the appli...

Is your client asking for something in a #Tableau dashboard that doesn't make sense? Agreeing with them might seem easiest, but it's not always the best approach. Read my blog post below for more information!
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Announcing the 2025 Tableau Visionaries Introducing the 2025 Tableau Visionaries, a title that honors the Tableau Community’s most distinguished leaders. This group of 46 members inspires us by sharing their mastery, teaching, and collabora...

I’m honored to be selected as a 2025 Tableau Visionary!!! What a great group on exceptionally talented people!! www.tableau.com/blog/announc...

Met up with my friends from the information lab this week at NYC!

Had a great time this week teaching an abridged Tableau 101 & 102. Snagged a pic with my copresenter

Join me today on my YouTube channel! #Tableau #datafam

Thank you!!!

Highlight Table Hack YouTube video by Dawn Harrington

In this demo I showed you a trick for creating highlight tables in #tableau
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Join me Friday at Noon EST on my techtipsgirl YouTube channel! I will be reviewing how to create the Highlight Table Hack from my blog post this week!

Highlight Table Hack Sometimes, Highlight Tables are confused with Heat Maps. A Heat Map is a table that uses colors across two axes. A Highlight Table also uses colors to emphasize values, but the difference is that it ...

New blog post! Sometimes, Highlight Tables are confused with Heat Maps. Learn the difference, when to use what and see an interesting way to create one in my blog below! #datafam #tableau #tableautraining #tableautip

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YouTube video by SharePoint in 60 Seconds SharePoint: Brand New Way To Add Images To Document Libraries and Lists

I just stumbled upon a gem channel in YouTube. SharePoint can be annoying but watching Carolina Mike (or SharePoint in 60) 's videos make learning easy. I love his energy!

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New Podcast! February 7th at noon EST! Join me for an interesting discussion and trivia with Kyle Massey David Kelly & Noelle Butler #Tableau #datafam