![]() ![]() That being said, it works really well, but since I can't seem to leave well enough alone, I decided to monkey with it and see what happened. It gives them a shot of patience while they furrow their brows and try to decipher what the hell is happening in that magic box in front of them. Now, this image isn't 100% accurate, in my experience, it is often rendered at a different size or slightly off center (possibly due to my odd hardcoded sizes in order to maximize how they look on the blog itself) - but that doesn't matter, it works incredibly well at keeping your user staring for those few precious seconds until everything is fully loaded and the interactive viz is working. In my mind, this is great because instead of looking at a useless box with just a "loading gif spinner" on it - at least the user gets a sense of what it is they are waiting for. Tableau has its own tricks up its sleeve, it supplements a (slightly greyed out) cached image of your viz while all the requisite AJAX javascript libraries are loading in the background. 1) Simple little Parlor Trick: Supplement a custom "loading screen" for Tableau's static cached report image Hopefully, you'll find this useful for your next "viz", and make something so damn pretty it'll put all mine to shame. ![]() Just a couple of little tweaks that I wasn't really able to find instructions for on the web. I'll go over some Tableau Public basics on another day, in a screencast perhaps - but for now, I wanted to highlight a couple of things that I stumbled upon during my own customizations. Not that a Tableau Public viz isn't already "jazzy" as it is - it's probably the single sexiest presentation layer I've ever encountered in my days of reporting (including some very expensive OLAP systems paired up with full blown dashboard products) and, trust me, I've worked with a lot of stuff. During that time I learned a lot about the way the product works and continue to try and "jazz" up my Tableau "vizes" (that's the current lingo, kids) in any way I can. Lots of learning, experimentation, tweaking, and some full blown data / analysis presentations have occurred ( enter my Metallica Visualization pages or as I cheesily call it, " MetallicAnalysis"). Tweet As I've been very vocal about all over Twitter and elsewhere - I've been spending a lot of time playing with Tableau Public over the past few weeks. ![]()
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