So there was a great FiveThirtyEight visualization this week that had a county-level sequential map showing disease related deaths. Their map had AK and HI so it reminded me that I still wasn’t satisfied with any of my current solutions in Tableau. In doing a little research, I found that was referred to as the Albers US Projection.
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This week one of my students asked me how to recreate the ascii style pig found in Russell Spangler’s ‘Whatcha Know About Bacon’ viz. My initial reaction was that deconstructing Spangler vizzes usually hurts my brain, yet as an old school gammer, ascii text seemed within my grasp. It turns out that I figured it out (with some help) and have made it easy for anyone to replicate in less than 5 MINUTES!
For my class at Temple I was looking for some good local data to teach people about maps & Tableau Mapbox integration. So I came across the site PennFoodTrucks.com and they provided me with a full download of their data files for a unique little data set!
Are you ready to build some Google Sheets write-back directly from Tableau in just a few easy steps?
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It doesn’t matter if you were preparing some images for a Tableau viz, or working on your presentation for #Data16, here are some really easy techniques to up your game (quickly and without fancy software).
Set Transparent Color – This is the fastest way to make a solid background transparent, but this example shows you why this is far from perfect when you have shadows and gradients.
Since seeing the work that Ancestry.com is doing with wrapping Tableau in a bootstrap portal, I loved the idea but haven’t had the time to build (or more accurately have my team build) the framework to support it. I also interact with over 100 site owners of varying skill levels, and not everyone is looking to support a portal solution outside of the Tableau server.
So I’ve turned to Robert Rouse’s slide out Menu Container in order to achieve the same effect. While I’m not a big fan of supporting custom tricks, once this solution is implemented, it isn’t hard for others to modify and support.
This is my attempt to practice this technique and make a template example that could be reused for simple dashboards.
Now that I run a Data Viz team (specializing in Tableau) for a Fortune 50 company, I’m contacted on a regular basis for advice on how to land a job. Interested in my advice? Well, then just take a quick few flips through my presentation.
For the food fight challenge I quickly explored the example data sets that were provided and decided that I wanted to do something totally different. On a side note, my 12 year-old daughter has only recently started eating hamburgers, and has fallen in love with Five Guys where you can pick your own toppings. While in line to pick up dinner for us, I thought that showing the toppings in an infographic style could be a fun effect… (Read on for more / Click image to visit the Viz)
Week 4 of #MakeoverMonday is here and my goal is to quickly show and shock you by how little savings most Americans have…
