A few observations from this example Examining this dashboard with the initial decades of 1960 and 2010, you can see that the control of the House has shifted toward the West and the South. Exceptions include Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma in the South and Montana in the West. If you adjust the first … Read more
Balancing analysis of multiple years by filtering through the same month/day as today Topics in this example 1) With a line chart, by placing Year(Order Date) on the Color shelf and Month(Date) on the columns, you can easily compare multiple years on the same pane of the graph. Just use Running Totals … Read more
A colleague shared this Mother Jones infographic, which attempts to explain the disparity in income between richer and poorer families in the US. The data is indeed fascinating, but quite difficult to read in their flashy infographic. There are two major issues that hinder understanding when viewing this infographic: 1) Using areas of circles … Read more
Thank you for your interest in our newsletter. Please share it with your colleagues and friends that you think can benefit from it. We are happy to share some great news, Eileen is close to the final release of our upcoming book, “The Accidental Analyst“! Look for training opportunities around the Accidental Analysts soon! Also, … Read more
Similar to VLookup functionality in Excel, you can use a second data source to dynamically create a new group in a separate Tableau data source. Just follow along with this example to create one. 1. Open the Tableau included sample data source, Sample – Superstore Sales (Excel) 2. Map Sales by State: CTRL-Click on … Read more
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Customer Eystein from Norway Favorite quote speaking with him “Make it simple and fast, my IT team was cheering on Tableau after trying it and QlikView. They really hoped we would pick Tableau and I am very happy we did.” Situation Eystein recently took over a BI team that wanted to accelerate use of data … Read more
In honor of our beautiful host country, Spain, we have created a dashboard of the major newspapers available in Spain by city, circulation and whether it is in Catalan (the language of this area in Spain.) This dashboard was created in just 30 minutes with Tableau and a glass of Spanish wine at our side! … Read more
From the article conclusions: “Data blending is a new feature in Tableau that simpliï¬es the process of integrating data from a variety of heterogeneous sources. We presented several compelling customer applications that leverage the feature and highlight its usefulness for interactive visual analysis. Additionally, we are engaging with our customers to improve the flexibility … Read more