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Shorts

One idea a minute, cut from the full meetings. Every short links back to the moment it came from.

725 shorts

Stakeholders always want the data buffet

THE DATA BUFFET

Low-fi mock-ups before you build

SKETCH IT FIRST

Tall or wide data? Decide up front

TALL OR WIDE?

Nobody wants a 30-second filter

NO 30-SECOND FILTERS

Why a dashboard is like a speedometer

GUIDE A DECISION

Ink-to-insight: 60 numbers vs one bar

INK TO INSIGHT

Build yourself a starter workbook

START FROM A TEMPLATE

A dashboard doesn’t have to be sacred

NOT SACRED

‘Look at me, I did all this work’

LESS IS MORE

High cardinality without spaghetti

NO SPAGHETTI CHARTS

Why letting your sister deal first costs you

DEAL FIRST, WIN MORE

Five points from losing? Still a coin flip

STILL A COIN FLIP

Visualizing cancer research experiments in Tableau

I HELPED CURE CANCER

Iraq’s Bloody Toll: when to break the viz rules

BREAK THE RULES

‘I am so bored’ — how not to open a demo

I AM SO BORED

A memorable hook isn’t enough on its own

MEMORABLE ISN'T ENOUGH

Tableau Pulse explains my pine tree in Aussie slang

PULSE, IN AUSSIE SLANG

Win people over: assume good intent

ASSUME GOOD INTENT

Tableau Studio: no feature left behind

NO FEATURE LEFT BEHIND

The dumbest chart ever, built by an AI agent

THE DUMBEST CHART EVER

Vision Pro users just wanted the number

JUST GIVE ME THE NUMBER

Both AI providers went down minutes before my demo

BOTH AI PROVIDERS DOWN

Vibe-coded dashboards, different versions of truth

DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF TRUTH

Humans have a cold start problem too

THE COLD START PROBLEM