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Parameters: A Love Story

Amy Forstrom
Manager, Product Management
Tableau Dev, Visual Analytics
Demystify parameters
Tour common and uncommon ways parameters are used in Tableau
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Top N filter
Variable bin size
What-if analysis
Reference line value
Sets with parameters
Moving average
Adjusting KPIs
Sort order
Swap fields in a chart
Swap charts in a dashboard
Cross data source filtering
Highlighting
Date drill down
YOY calculations and filtering
Set default filter date(s)
Compare to selected
Compare to date (Index line)
“Landing page”
URL Action parameters
HTTP URL parameters
Set with JavaScript API
Custom SQL conditions
DATETRUNC()
INDEX()
http://kb.tableau.com/articles/howto/creating-a-date-field-that-defaults-to-today
2x + 14 = 38
Flexibility and control
http://www.tableau.com/table-calculations
http://vizcandy.blogspot.com/2013/07/replicating-new-york-times-d3js-chart.html
http://vizpainter.com/never-ending-navigation-buttons-that-deselect-themselves/
http://onlinehelp.tableau.com/current/pro/desktop/en-us/help.html#actions_url.html
http://kb.tableau.com/articles/knowledgebase/view-filters-url
http://kb.tableau.com/articles/howto/setting-date-range-filter-values-using-url-parameter
 https://onlinehelp.tableau.com/current/api/js_api/en-
us/JavaScriptAPI/js_api_ref.htm
https://github.com/tableau/js-api-samples
https://onlinehelp.tableau.com/current/pro/desktop/en-us/customsql.html
Cross data source filtering
Highlighting
Date drill down
YOY calculations and filtering
Set default filter date(s)
Compare to selected
Compare to date (Index line)
“Landing page”
URL Action parameters
HTTP URL parameters
Set with JavaScript API
Custom SQL conditions
Top N filter
Variable bin size
What-if analysis
Reference line value
Sets with parameters
Moving average
Adjusting KPIs
Sort order
Swap fields in a chart
Swap charts in a dashboard
Flexibility and Control
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Wednesday, October 11
Parameters: A Love Story
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Thursday, October 12
Parameters: A Love Story
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Wednesday, October 11
Parameters: Driving Interactivity One Dashboard at a Time
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Thursday, October 12
Parameters: Driving Interactivity One Dashboard at a Time
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Thursday, October 12
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Amy Forstrom

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