Notes on Tableau and Data Visualisation
What is a mark ID? How are they created and how to they impact animation in Tableau? How do you create custom animations? This post aims to answer these questions and provide an understanding of the core concepts of animation in Tableau.
Chord diagrams show, in a circular form, the inter-relationships between entities in a matrix. This post describes a method for creating a chord diagram using Tableau Prep and Desktop templates.
This post walks through how to create a drill-down table in Tableau so you can see different levels of granularity at the same time as well as how to create a custom button to go back to the default view.
This blog post walks through some of the design and UX choices in making this visualisation about how different areas of the UK have responded to lockdown.
This blog walks through my process for visualising the 139 thousand records in the Museum of Modern Art's catalogued collection.
This blog posts steps through how to create a two-colour area chart, with a different colour for positive and negative values.
Tableau Metrics enable you to see KPIs and trends of various measures sourced from different dashboards in an easily digestible format that's optimised for mobile.
Buffer spatial calculations allow you to perform trade area analysis in Tableau Desktop without any pre-processing of data. This blog explains what buffers are and how to create them.
Animated transitions enable consumers of data visualisations to more easily understand changes between states such as when filtering, sorting or changing levels of granularity.
This post walks through how to create a selection panel using parameter actions, storing all selected items in the same parameter and giving feedback when the max number of items have been selected.
Using a parameter as data source, this blog shows how you can draw sequential points over a grid or on a map with spatial points.
This post takes a look at the new functionality in the 2019.4 beta to create 50 (dimension) column tables along with other table enhancements.
For a recent project I had to group my data in to custom time bins, for example, 30, 60, 240 mins etc. In this blog I show two methods to do this.
A small multiples chart helps to compare the same measures across multiple dimension values. This blog walks through how to create one in Tableau using Row and Column calculations.
For this month's #SportsVizSunday and #SWDchallenge I created two radial charts as the basis for a bike themed Tour de France visualisation
For this month's #IronQuest, I take a look at geographic data on the amazing but sadly under threat Coral Reefs of Indonesia.
This blog post gives a an overview of the Tableau Server Certified Associate exam, how I prepared, and some links to resources.
The second beta of 2019.2 includes an upgrade to Parameter Actions, which now allow you to select multiple values and pass an aggregation of those values to a parameter. This blog explains this new feature and walks through an example.
