Dear Data 2019 – Week 4, Mirrors

Feb 8, 2019 Ann Jackson | jacksontwo.com

Week 4 of the data postcard project Sarah Bartlett and I are working on this year is here. We still have yet to reach consistent timing for postcard arrival. Sarah …

Data,DataVisualization,DearData,Personal,QuantifiedSelf

Viz: The Cincinnati Snow Plows at Work

Feb 6, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

A visualization of the snow plows in Cincinnati treating for ice and snow from January 11, 2019 to January 14, 2019.

Viz: Cell Phone Towers in Cincinnati

Feb 6, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

A visualizations of the cell phone coverage in the Cincinnati area.

Reloj en JS – Parte del curso Javascript30

Feb 2, 2019 dsmd4vid | dsmdaviz.com

Muy entretenido y sencillo. Adecuado para la segunda aproximación a Javascript de un completo novato como yo.The post Reloj en JS – Parte del curso Javascript30 appeared first on TABLEAU PASO A PASO.

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Dear Data 2019 – Week 3, Thank Yous

Jan 31, 2019 Ann Jackson | jacksontwo.com

Week 3 postcards for the data project Sarah Bartlett and I are working on this year have finally reached their destinations. I think we both felt that the mail was …

Data,DataVisualization,Personal,QuantifiedSelf

Viz: Top 10 Topics Trending on Twitter in Cincinnati

Jan 25, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

A visualization of the top 10 trends on Twitter in Cincinnati, Ohio for January 23, 2019 including eMLS, Xavier Basketball and Covington Catholic.

Bar Hopping: Theme and Variations on a Bar Chart

Jan 23, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

If you’ve spent time visualizing data then you have likely heard the phrase, “bar charts are boring”. We know from research that bar charts can be very effective for encoding data for precise quantitative comparisons, but often times clients, cust...

Marginal Tax Rate Simulator

Jan 19, 2019 dsmd4vid | dsmdaviz.com

Check how current marginal tax rates apply to you!The post Marginal Tax Rate Simulator appeared first on TABLEAU PASO A PASO.

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Chart Chat Live - Volume 2

Jan 10, 2019 | www.dataplusscience.com

Thank you to everyone that joined our second Chart Chat live webinar. If you were not able to join us for our latest episode of Chart Chat, then check out the video on YouTube, download the slides and read a recap of the webinar.

How to Run Alteryx in a Tableau Dashboard

Jan 4, 2019 | andredevries.dev

Ever wanted to execute your Alteryx workflows or analytic apps from within your Tableau dashboard? Read how in this blog!

D3.js and Vue.JS

Jan 3, 2019 | andredevries.dev

In this blog, I will describe how you can integrate D3 into Vue.js. I’m also introducing the Vue CLI and how to integrate D3 there.

A Redesign of Florence Nightingale's Rose Chart

Dec 30, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

Last month, Steve Wexler and I did our first Chart Chat episode where I showed a redesign of the famous Florence Nightingale Rose Chart. The original diagram was published in Contribution to the Sanitary History of the British Army (1859). It was ...

A Dashboard Redesign from Makeover Monday 2018 Week 51

Dec 19, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

A discussion and redesign of the London Buses Safety Dashboard from MakeoverMonday 2018 Week 51.

Viz: Lego Pieces

Dec 1, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

A visualization of Lego Pieces and Lego Sets from 1950 to 2017.

Chart Chat Live - Volume 1

Nov 30, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

Thank you to everyone that joined our first Chart Chat live webinar. If you were not able to join us for our first episode of Chart Chat, then check out the video on YouTube, download the slides and read a recap of the webinar. Be sure to check ou...

Extensions for Tableau

Nov 26, 2018 Chris DeMartini | www.datablick.com

As you probably already know if you have followed some of my content over the past couple of years, I am pretty excited about the release of the Extensions API for Tableau. This blog is an overdue follow up from #TC18, where Tamás Földi and I pres...

BlogPosts,D3,React+Tableau,Tableau,ExtensionsAPI

Beeswarm plot in Alteryx

Nov 14, 2018 dsmd4vid | dsmdaviz.com

Beeswarm – an HTML Tool using Python Accepting the challenge to build an HTML tool in Alteryx (in my case, with the Python engine), I settled for something I’ve been missing from the reporting tools (even with the added Plotly features): A simple ...

Alteryx,alteryx,beeswarm,boxplot,boxplot,htmltool,jitter,plot,swarm,violin,violinplot

Niveles de cálculo

Nov 7, 2018 dsmd4vid | dsmdaviz.com

Cómo calcula Tableau?The post Niveles de cálculo appeared first on TABLEAU PASO A PASO.

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Zoom In Tooltip in Tableau

Oct 31, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

In Tableau Tips Volume 13 (Tip #2) I showed a zoom in feature on a map. In that example I used a small map on a Dashboard canvas and set the tooltip using a larger map with labels. This creates a zoom feature on the map, keeping the map small on t...

Viz: The City That Never Parks

Oct 31, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

A visualization of the “No Parking” signs in New York City.

Build your first Tableau Dashboard Extension

Oct 15, 2018 | andredevries.dev

In this blogpost I will walk you through building your first Tableau dashboard extension. It is aimed at those that have no prior experience with creating extensions.

Z-Order in Tableau

Sep 15, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

The z-order is the order of overlapping two-dimensional objects, for example, circles plotted on top of each other in a scatter plot. In Tableau, we don’t explicitly define a z-order in that way. Instead, the view is defined by the marks that are ...

Optimizing Tableau Workbooks

Sep 12, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

If you are not one of the 100 followers of Katarzyna “Kasia” Gasiewska on Twitter then you will be missing out on some great visualizations that are sure to pop up on her Tableau Public profile. Her very first post on Twitter was her recent Iron V...

Viz: Will Your State Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

Sep 5, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

Viz: Will Your State Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

A Roadmap for Using Tableau for Teaching

Aug 17, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

I have been teaching Data Visualization at the University of Cincinnati (U.C.) since 2012 and from the very beginning I have been using Tableau as part of the course. Over the years this has developed into more of the curriculum, as students have ...

Tableau Tips - Volume 14 Dashboard Layout Tips

Aug 14, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

Here is the 14th installment of Tableau tips where I explore Dashboard design, the new grid options in Tableau and various other Tableau tips to help you when designing your dashboards.

Importing and Converting Spatial Files for Tableau

Aug 8, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

Tableau has the ability to import and plot a number of spatial file types. This includes shapefiles (polygon, line and points), GeoJSON and KML files. This is very handy and makes it very easy to import and create a map. In fact, once imported int...

What’s this new Tableau .trex filetype?

Aug 7, 2018 | andredevries.dev

With the release of Tableau’s latest instalment, version 2018.2, we now have the ability to use extensions in our dashboards. With extension we also see a new file extension appearing. Read all about it in this blog post!

Embedding Tableau the VueJS Way!

Aug 6, 2018 | andredevries.dev

In this blog post I’ll explain how to use the Tableau JS API for embedding with Vue.js

How to Separate a Box Plot and Unit Histogram in Tableau

Jul 25, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

In a recent blog post by entitled Is this better than a Jitterplot? Could be, Steve explores alternate ways to visualize a jitterplot (a dot plot with random jitter to separate the dots). In this post, I show how you can create a box plot separate...

How to Make a Tadpole Chart and Other Charts in Tableau with Open Circles

Jun 21, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

I was reading a recent blog post The Spawning of the Tadpole Chart by Mark Edwards. Mark’s post outlines pros and cons for various style of this chart, but asked on this Twitter thread how to make the lines stop at the outer edge of the circles in...

Viz: Women in American Orchestras

Jun 9, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

A visualization showing the percentage of women in the top 20 American Orchestras by section of the orchestra.

Small Multiple Flows in Tableau

Jun 5, 2018 Chris DeMartini | www.datablick.com

Small Multiple Flows live up to their name, combining small multiples and flow elements in a single viz. This allows us to combine a set of events, providing an intense data visualization about these events, while also connecting one event to the ...

BlogPosts,Tableau,Design

Building a Calendar in Tableau with Discrete Events

Jun 2, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

Building a Calendar in Tableau with Discrete Events

Paving the Way: An Interview with Marie Speziale

Apr 21, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

Paving the Way: An Interview with Marie Speziale

Layering data for custom Tableau visualizations

Mar 26, 2018 Chris DeMartini | www.datablick.com

This post outlines a method that has been shared before in the Tableau community. I was initially introduced to it by Noah Salvaterra’s Chord Diagram a while back. 

BlogPosts,Design,Tableau

Critical Thinking in Data Analysis: The Barclays Gender Pay Gap

Feb 25, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

Critical Thinking in Data Analysis: The Barclays Gender Pay Gap

Finding the Nearest Ocean Coast or any Nearest Point on a Map in Tableau

Feb 22, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

Finding the Nearest Ocean Coast or any Nearest Point on a Map in Tableau

Creating a Dynamic Range “Parameter” in Tableau

Feb 5, 2018 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

Tableau’s native parameters have a couple of key limitations as of this writing in February 2018: The list of values is static and we can only select one value at a time, not a range of values. So when we want to do something like set up a viz wit...

TipsandTechniques,datapreparation,dynamic,dynamicparameter,dynamicparameters,parameter,parameters,rangefilter,rangeparameter,union

The Definition of a Dashboard

Feb 3, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

The Definition of a Dashboard

Creating a 4 Quadrant Square Chart

Jan 21, 2018 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

I recently saw a great chart from Pew Research via Steve Wexler on Twitter.This shows a 2X2 Matrix of survey data in 4 quadrants of favor/oppose. This is a really great chart, and it can 100% be created in Tableau.Ramon Martinez quickly showed how...

Tips

More options for your Tableau Sankey Diagram

Jan 16, 2018 Chris DeMartini | www.datablick.com

A quick look around Tableau Public can often lead you to a Sankey diagram at some point. I can only speak from my experience, but the majority of these visuals (including mine thus far) leverage the sigmoid function. This technique has been posted...

BlogPosts,Tableau

Tableau Tips - Volume 13 "Another 10 tips for Viz in Tooltips"

Jan 14, 2018 | www.dataplusscience.com

Tableau Tips - Volume 13 “Another 10 tips for Viz in Tooltips”

Filter Actions as Parameter = New Tableau UX Options

Jan 12, 2018 Rody Zakovich (noreply@blogger.com) | www.datatableauandme.com

IF YOU HAVE NOT READ http://drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org/using-a-filter-action-as-a-parameter/ BY JONATHAN DRUMMEY, STOP READING NOW! Everything I am going to show is based on Jonathan’s technique to simulate a Parameter using a Dashboard Actio...

Tips

Using a Filter Action as a Parameter

Jan 10, 2018 Jonathan Drummey | drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org

I got a question recently about wanting to use an action in Tableau to set a parameter. For example in this view below the goal is to hover over a one of the bars below to send the action to the circles on top and use that value to color the marks...

TipsandTechniques,action,actions,Cartesianjoin,cartesianproduct,crossjoin,crossproduct,dynamicparameter,filteraction,highlight,highlightaction,hover,parameter,scaffold,select,union