America’s Aging Population – WoW Edition
How do you set up and work with table calculations in Tableau? Read this blog for some tips and tricks with working with table calculations.
Category Archives: Tableau
How to create a cross highlight action in Tableau
Another #WorkoutWednesday challenge and Rody’s back. One of the reason’s I really like #WorkoutWednesday is the authors do a great of creating challenges to: Challenge you to grow your technical skills Explore new or lesser known functionalities of the Tableau This week is no exception as Rody is challenging us, piggy-backing off of last week’s
How to color between two lines in Tableau
This week for #MakeoverMonday, Andy gave us some Census data to play with and this infographic to make over What works well Good title and subtitle Nice appealing colors Line colors are Labeled clearly I like the point values on the ends only What could be improved I’m not loving the bottom side-by-side chart. I
How to use Set Actions in Tableau for drill down
So here we are! 2018.3 is here and with it, along with many new AWESOME features are set actions! And boy, are they gonna change the game. [I realize that we say that with nearly every release but seriously, set actions are gonna be big] 2018.3 was released Monday night and wouldn’t you know it,
Tableau Conference recap
Wow! Just WOW! Another TC has come and gone and with it, another week of inspiration, injection and good ‘ole fashioned gumption It’s pretty difficult to come away from TC without having new tips and tricks in your Tableau arsenal or without a few new ideas of how to solve that pesky calculated field that’s
Bring the Heat
Scenario: Your chilling at home one evening scrolling through Twitter when you read an interesting tweet. Something about that tweet piques your interest and if you’re a #dataviz person like me, your first thought is “how can I visualize this?” then you might ask yourself “does data exist?” or “how hard would it be to
Tourism Density
For week 24 of #MakeoverMonday, we’re looking at Tourism Density for select countries around the world. The data comes to us from Intrepid Travel. Here’s how they originally visualized this data: What works well I like the panel/grid look They did a good job separating the two categories of countries There’s a lot of text
INRIX Traffic Scorecard
For week 20 of #MakeoverMonday, we’re looking at traffic data. Europe traffic data to be specific. Check out the original below: What works well Title Axis is labeled Contextual notes are footnoted Columns are easy to read What could be improved I’m constantly confused by the colors, I keep looking for a legend only to
#VisualizeNoMalaria
Week 16 of #MakeoverMonday was a special one. Eva and Andy were doing a live makeover session at the London Tableau User Group. The fine folks who run that group, Sarah Bartlett & Pablo Gomez, decided to live stream the event! So after figuring out the time difference and clearing my schedule, I was able
Arctic ice is getting hot, hot, hot!
For week 15, we’re looking at a very topical dataset. The National Snow & Ice Data Center has taken daily sea ice coverage measurements dating back to the late 1970’s. Recently, they created the visual below from the data: What works well The time to insight is very low with this visual. I know exactly