https://www.alisonpitt.com/blog daily 0.75 2024-05-06 https://www.alisonpitt.com/blog/how-to-set-up-a-2-record-seed-to-do-math-in-tableau monthly 0.5 2024-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/99b5e96d-7deb-4545-ae86-8bb7ddf1c79c/Triangular+Numbers.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out My Tableau Public viz showing what triangular numbers look like. This viz was created using the 2-record seed dataset described in this blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/2c2a64d8-b799-45cb-bc8b-dcae3cb688ec/Screenshot+2024-05-05+at+9.37.19%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out Tableau Public with a 2-record seed copied and pasted in as a data source https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/eac1133b-74f3-4d62-9f1e-20cc50686f2d/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+6.10.10%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out Configuration for the "Type a Number > 0" parameter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/944e5b0e-6872-4b6e-8a42-e36c26b8dff5/Screenshot+2024-05-05+at+9.46.14%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out The formula for my calculated field [Point] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/2af7ac9b-1c85-43b3-81be-d37f6ed8d321/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+6.12.02%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out Here I've made use of [Measure Names] and [Measure Values] to set up a text table I can add to https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/08e2c652-f779-443e-809e-5884f7874386/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+6.12.54%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out Create bins on the measure [Point] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/43c6351a-c37a-4008-9275-cb01a2dec94e/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+6.13.40%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out Configuration for the bins on the [Point] measure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/3adcde3a-3a82-4488-a0b3-3d43629591f5/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+6.14.10%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out Note that [Point (bin)] is a new dimension in the data pane https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/a7517b2a-076d-479b-9c2d-3a572504dc58/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+6.17.16%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out How to find the “Show Missing Values” aka domain padding option https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/112b0d2c-ab4b-4130-9240-cb233b734fac/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+6.20.12%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out After showing missing values on [Point (bin)], the [Point] measure mostly looks blank. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/bb42a8e5-cdf2-4dc5-be0a-4c41f1ef17c2/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+6.26.32%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out Tableau doesn’t like you using bins in a calculated field! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/5fbdc49e-cf4b-4f24-9509-0783ea382160/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+6.32.46%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out See how INDEX() along Point (bin) lines up neatly with [Point (bin)]? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/30495168-d536-40b2-8855-848d1bc17c2f/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+6.40.13%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out A constant value doesn’t automatically show for all rows. It needs a little help https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/feb108ee-0e9c-429e-a6fc-985724dafba5/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+6.43.12%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out Using INDEX() / INDEX() as a constant works better than using 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/31fcb16c-cafa-49d0-b73f-757e4bcbce76/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+6.46.35%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out As long as INDEX() is in there somewhere, you’re good https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/7d56098e-7ae9-4748-a138-cf5472449e58/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+8.36.52%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out The good old quadratic formula https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/1715048315478-X701ONV44O68VOZ24O2G/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+7.15.57%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/1715048315685-C49RCA10I8GOILEGEQR4/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+7.16.30%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/1715048316414-AVESV7IN8W5G4OR7YZNM/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+7.16.47%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/1715048316578-RHGT70FIGSVCJQQ84WYO/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+7.17.03%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/1715048317283-QN6HYICMS9UO7ZVENMXL/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+7.17.17%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/1715048317435-H3WACPPIXYJLFQ95LM5U/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+7.17.43%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/57a12234-3e44-4c1d-867c-8caf0c3127a3/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+7.25.30%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out n_t comes out as a decimal number, but we need whole numbers for rows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/1250db34-03eb-4649-a286-9799534a1363/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+7.30.03%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out “The ‘CEILING’ function cannot be applied to table calculations and fields from multiple data sources” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/0ca3770a-1fc8-4a4a-bc1b-cb74c8d7e52f/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+7.33.48%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out Turning an INT() into a CEILING() https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/93635604-4879-49a9-8b82-130547586121/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+7.36.02%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out We’ve worked out our ROW values from n_t https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/0286ef3f-4892-4dbc-b707-c87ac7ba34f3/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+7.48.27%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out Formula for calculating a full triangle with ROW number of rows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/93c72d4b-683e-4adf-be36-b673f3eb156f/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+7.54.21%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out Set up the [COORD] calculated field https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/3b117eb4-98b2-4a63-bdfe-f53e3cb59195/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+7.56.52%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out We’ve built out a table containing all the points and their ROW/COORD locations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/a0e72d6a-5679-4822-aa92-78cc09056f5b/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+8.09.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out Turn on domain padding on a new sheet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/b534410e-1797-4007-9214-be9deca0f01c/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+8.11.04%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out With [Point (bin)] on Details, this chart looks pretty sparse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/fc93e648-d69c-44a4-aee1-88f2ee67bd24/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+8.13.31%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out A triangle! Sorta… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/b0e8681c-e611-4ee8-9797-283c6ad1e3ca/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+8.16.26%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - How to Set up a 2-Record Seed to do Math in Tableau - Make it stand out The triangle plot after reversing the rows axis https://www.alisonpitt.com/blog/an-exploration-of-incomplete-open-cubes monthly 0.5 2023-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/8a717853-668c-4bdf-89d2-93b7b40f1460/Incomplete+Open+Cubes.png Blog - An Exploration of Incomplete Open Cubes - Make it stand out Incomplete Cubes, a Tableau exploration of Sol DeWitt’s 1974 work “Incomplete Open Cubes” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/ec5c253b-1e36-4833-a136-ab585708584a/IMG_3119.jpeg Blog - An Exploration of Incomplete Open Cubes - Make it stand out The drawing I used to keep track of the edges and vertices in my cube model https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/9988db3c-f02c-47ef-9a6c-ecffdba9386a/3D+rotation+matrix.png Blog - An Exploration of Incomplete Open Cubes - Make it stand out A general 3D rotation matrix, from Wikipedia https://www.alisonpitt.com/blog/what-size-dashboard-should-you-use-for-a-nice-tableau-public-thumbnail monthly 0.5 2023-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/a40a52f3-2988-49c2-b051-634549cecb23/Screen+Shot+2023-06-19+at+7.10.49+PM.png Blog - What size dashboard should you use for a nice Tableau Public thumbnail? - Make it stand out Various thumbnails from the top of my Tableau Public page https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5944a9cf2e69cf5265881000/1687227991896-M5GN3FB96QVHG60U2RIA/Screen+Shot+2023-06-19+at+7.25.53+PM.png Blog - What size dashboard should you use for a nice Tableau Public thumbnail? 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