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How to aggregate multiple columns in Tableau Prep | #PreppinData | 2019 | 01
Well hello there! Whether you’ve read my blog before or you’re here for the first time – Welcome to the first edition of a new weekly challenge, #PreppinData, spearheaded by Carl Allchin, “The Other” head coach at the The Information Lab Data School, and Jonathan Allenby, consultant at The Information Lab. In the same vain
How to make a tree plot in Tableau | #WorkoutWednesday | 2019 |6
#WorkoutWednesday2019 week 6 is here | don't get fooled by the pretty trees, this chart can easily be re-purposed for a business setting and includes a few little formatting tricks for good measure | blog: https://t.co/5slLIhIukT | full viz: https://t.co/ueS0wPAOEC pic.twitter.com/8RfwrAKx1s — Ann Jackson (@AnnUJackson) February 6, 2019 Well this looks fun and new! TREES?!
How to make a multi-dimensional dot plot | #MakeoverMonday | 2019 | 5
Hello again! Welcome back and as always, thanks for reading!
For week 5 of #MakeoverMonday 2019, Andy has given us a stacked bar chart from the European Commission looking at the Digital Economy and Society Index scores for countries in the EU across 5 categories.
What works well
- sorted best to worst
- legend is clear
- title is simple enough
What could be improved
- Stacked bars are good for cumulative comparison but as soon as you add the colors to each bar, I think instinctively a large number of will want to compare the parts to each other. And in this display, doing that is extremely difficult.
I think there’s a way that we preserve the ability to see and compare the cumulative indices AS WELL AS being able to compare each the individual parts.
I think a multi-dimensional dot plot is the best way to visualize this data. I remember WAY back in week 17 of 2017 (Apr. 24) of #MakeoverMonday that Tableau Zen Master, Matt Chambers created a dashboard that is extremely close to the one I want to build for this week. Back then we were comparing a list, compiled by LinkedIn, of skills in high demand. Here is what Matt created, click the picture for the interactive version:
He even wrote up a blog about highlight action piece.
I’m going to #StealLikeAnArtist and use this as a framework for what I’m going to build. Here is what I built. If you want to learn how I built it complete with data prep and calculations, I encourage you to continue reading below, otherwise, click the screenshot for the interactive version
How to make a strip plot in Tableau | #MakeoverMonday | 2019 | 4
It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve done a makeover. And no time like the present to get back on the horse. So here we go! What are we looking at this week? Okay, so we’re looking at something that probably all of us have looked at some point…our electric usage. So here we’ve got
How to create a Combination Step Line in Tableau | #WorkoutWednesday | 2019 | 4
Former #IronViz champion and just about the nicest guy you’ll ever know, Curtis Harris has also joined the #WorkoutWednesday2019 crew. And week 4 is his inaugural post. Let’s take a look! Alrighty, here we go. We’ve got a step line chart with circles on the points of change, sized by absolute change, colored by polarity.
#WorkoutWednesday | 2019 | 3
As #WorkoutWednesday has grown over the years it has been fun to see new people get involved and one of those new people is no stranger to the Tableau community. Lorna Eden is a Tableau Ambassador and starting in 2019 is a regular challenge master for #WorkoutWednesday and week 3 is her first challenge. Let’s
How to create Jitter plots, Calendars, and Set Actions in Tableau | #WorkoutWendesday | 2019 | 2
If there’s one thing that Ann is consistent with, it’s her color palettes. Rarely, does she ever use the default “Tableau 10” palette and among her top favorites is definitely Nuriel Stone. And I must admit, it’s a really nice. (Sidebar: I actually had the opportunity to meet with and talk to Nuriel at TC18
Sales Drill-down | #WorkoutWednesday | 2019 | Week 1
Happy new year! And just like that, without missing a beat, we’re back at with the first challenge of a new year of #WorkoutWednesday. Luke is kicking off the challenges this year and he’s got a good one for us. So let’s take a look. Okay, the first thing I notice about this is that
NHL Attendance | #MakeoverMonday | 2019 | Week 1
2019 is here and with that, another year of #MakeoverMonday. I’m going to push myself to be more involved this year and stick with it. I’m not putting a number on it…for now 😉 So for this week, we’ve been given a dataset on the NHL attendance. You can check out all the details here.
Who are the Nobel Laureates
After 51 weeks, we’ve finally made it to the last week #WorkoutWednesday for 2018. Ann is back for this challenge and she’s GONE ROGUE!!! No, just kidding, but she did stray away from the Superstore Sales dataset which is pretty cool. So here’s the challenge and a screenshot of the final dashboard: I’ve noticed this