Woman in Data

Earlier this week I was fortunate enough to present a session during the Tableau Fringe Festival organised by Emily Kund and Jen Vaughan.

My session was titled "The Font of all Knowledge" and was everything to do with fonts in Tableau: from knowing which fonts Tableau can use across Desktop, Server and Public; to which fonts work on an iPad; choosing the right font for your dashboards; mixing fonts, font sizing and colour and fonts for accessibility!

You can watch the session again on YouTube:


There were some fantastic sessions by so many great speakers including Carl Allchin, Paul Banoub, Chuck Hooper, Dan Murray to name but a few! You can watch them all on the Tableau Fringe Festival YouTube channel.

One of the more tricky aspects of learning Tableau, in my experience as both a self-taught Tableau customer and now as a Tableau Trainer, is understanding Measure Names and Measure Values. I've put together a quick video to try and explain how they work and how you can use them to create charts that compare multiple measures.