As your Tableau Software dashboards become more complex you’ll often find yourself needing to mesh multiple data sets from two or more sources. One limitation this creates is the inability to define global filters to control all worksheets throughout your workbook. While actions can be...
Tableau provides many types of filter including range filters for dates and numerical data, but what of textual dimensions? For instance lets say we have a dimension with data in the following format, 3-digit months with a 2-digit year and a period used by the...
With our interesting November weather it couldn't be a better time to look at how our weather has changed in the last 140 years...
Flowing data posted nice and clear instructions on how to make bubble charts using R. It's a great post, and I thought it would be a good thing to show how to create the same chart in Tableau. Readers can compare and contrast the ease...
This is the third post on simple tricks that are available in version 6. This one represents a common request we get. The client says "I want to compare the performance of x against everyone else." What is x? Well, it could be Customers, Departments,...
You may have seen my response to an Information is Beautiful post. Here's the viz I used in that post: Wikipedia banner testsThe effectiveness of donation appeals on Wikipedia Powered by Tableau This uses sheet tabs to create an "About this viz" tab. It is good practise...
Those of you who follow me on twitter (@acotgreave) will probably know that most Fridays I get involved in the rathe excellent FridayMix. This week it reaches its first birthday. I downloaded the full list of all 3500+ tracks that have appeared on a FridayMix...
Following the budget cuts announced yesterday by George Osbourne I, like I'm sure many of you, have been trying to get to grips with what these cuts will mean for the country going forward. Clicking through some of the reaction on the BBC new website...
Flowing Data laid down the challenge to visual the sexual health and behaviour dataset from Indiana University. Seemed like an interesting topic...
Flowing Data have announce a new Visualise This exercise. The data on the site is only available as an image. For those who want an XLS of the data, here it is! Sexual health survey...
London 2012 published the Olympic ticket prices today. There's lots of good value seats to be had. I took the data from the London 2012 site and built this viz that you can use to find out how much your favourite sport will cost you: Note:...
The government today published details of which quangos they are going to abolish. It's pretty ruthless. Here's an interactive viz using data from the Guardian Data Blog: Bonfire of the quangos Powered by Tableau Click on the Share button above to embed the viz in your own...
I see that Interflora is suing M&S over the latter's keyword piggy-back tactic. I notice that this is also happening in the Fast Analytics world: ...
Congratulations to our Business Intelligence Consultant Darren Evans, whose visualisation for World Aid Donors and Receivers was voted most Beautiful Visualisation This Week on the Tableau Public website. Tableau Public is a free application from Tableau Software, which allows anyone interested in publishing data visualisations...
Warning! This post discusses disc golf. If you’ve not heard of it, just imagine I’m referring to “normal” golf. The US Disc Golf Championships, the world’s toughest, and richest event is happening this week. The leaderboard's on the PDGA.com, and on the USDGC sites are ok,...
There’s a chart doing the rounds that shows who is suing whom in the telecoms industries (eg at the Guardian). David McCandelish has improved it nicely here, and asked the question of whether companies who’s revenue is going down are more litigious than those on...
[Update: in theory, v6.1.1 has made it easier to create the bars described in this post by using REPLACE() and SPACE(). However, at time of writing (19 Aug 2011) there is a problem: while the solution works fine in Tableau Desktop, the view won't display...
I played in the Croydon Cyclone last weekend, a part of the British Disc Golf Association national tour. One hole's layout was controversial. It's short, a distance that almost any player can reach from the tee. The designers spiced things up by surrounding the basket...
Would you like a bottle of Dom Perignon 2000 vintage champagne? If so, read on. There are many things that make working in a business intelligence consultancy enormously satisfying: + you’re presented with a constant stream of fresh, interesting and stimulating challenges + you get to meet some truly great...
With the UN MDG summit underway in New York, Jonathan Glennie of The Guardian has an interesting blog looking at countries contributing to world aid and the countries receiving aid. The blog contains the following visualisation looking at donators and receivers of aid in 2007:...
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