Joe,
unfortunately, the TBO visualization is not liquid (e.g. fixed width & height) so there’s not a great solution here. On the plus side, less than 20% of visits to my site are 1024 or less.

Michael,
When you click on the plus sign next to the months, the columns are expanded to days (same as would happen in Desktop).

Your comment offers some great suggestions. Some other thoughts:

1. Might be nice if selecting a month header in the small-multiples view, changes the month in the calendar view?
2. If you hover over a month label in the small-multiples view, you can see the date level +/- control in the upper left corner. Right now you can click this control. What happens next is unclear.

Select the day October 24, 2007, and the “S” value (Sum of Sales) is 7131.23. Then when I hover over the 3 dots in the sparkline, I get 2238, 5857, and 1995. interestingly this totals to 10090. very different numbers, is there some type of filter applied to the calendar sheet but not to the sparkline? Or am I comparing apples to oranges?

Also, try selecting the day October 25, 2007, the value zero is not charted for the Furniture row.

In any case, I’ll test it out in a workbook and then talk to Ellie, et. al. about adding it to the Online version.

Thanks!

This IS the vision. Some many possibilities.

Would it be difficult to add the additional conditional color functionality that I demonstrated in this comment Ellie’s original blog post on the calendar?

Agreed on the legend, I’ll see if I can get that into the next build (BTW, M = %Margin).
As far as the highlights on the sparklines go (when selecting a day in the calendar) it points out whether there were sales for that category on that day and more obviously (and maybe less important) the specific value of sales in that category on that day.

As stated in the post, this workbook is built on the upcoming version 5 so you would first need to be part of the beta to play with it. Also, I’m not sure if I can share this particular file (I’ll get clarification from Tableau). However, it’s built on the SuperStore sample data so it’s not like you couldn’t recreate it with minimal effort .

And yeah, it sure would be nice if selecting a point within the sparklines changed the calendar. I’ll have to see if that’s possible (guess where my day off is going now?)

I hadn’t thought about that way but you’re right this will be invaluable in the forums!

Cheers!

As far as an addition to your embedded calendar, I would like to select a mark on the sparkline and have the above calendar change to that month and select the day. Also I think it would be nice to have a legend for what the S/P/M mean. From the on hover tool-tip, I was able to see that the S means sum of sales, and P means sum of profit, but how am I supposed to know what M means?

When I select a date in the calendar, what additional insight does highlighting that day’s three marks in the sparkline tell me? I would think there would be a better way to display the breakdown of where the values (S/P/M) came from. If you can make the .twbx available, I’ll see what I can come up with.

Overall, I am very excited that Tableau will offer hosting for customer generated visualizations. The first place I would want to use this would be on their forums (http://www.tableausoftware.com/community/forums). It will be interesting to see the response/lag with larger data sets.