Earlier today, I posted on the Tableau Forum, suggesting it would be great if Tableau did 3D pie charts. Well, I didn’t think it would be possible, but using some data pre-processing techniques, and hacking the preferences.tps, I’ve worked out a way of doing 3d pie charts in Tableau:

I knew those developers in Seattle would implement this fantastic visualisation technique eventually. Well done Tableau for letting the community take advantage of good quality graphics. I’ll explain how to do it in a subsequent post.

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