topic: Chart Types
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Create an Enhanced Tableau Table: Multi-Chart, One Worksheet Method
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You may have seen my previous blog post, A Review: Tableau’s Table Viz Extension, in which I reviewed Tableau’s Table Viz Extension and listed its pros and cons (if you haven’t checked it out, please do!). I wanted to see if this extension could replace the ‘Tableau trickery’ I use when creating a customized table…
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A Review: Tableau’s Table Viz Extension
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I use many workarounds to create complex and customized data visualizations in Tableau. One visualization that requires some “Tableau trickery,” as we like to say, is a table-like view where different chart types can be combined into columns. For example, the table may contain a column of text, a column showing shapes (such as up…
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What the Hex?
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I’m incredibly open to new ideas and change, but if I’m brutally honest, I must acknowledge that my inner skeptic sometimes whispers (perhaps shouts), “Change is good—you go first.” There may be something in my Myers-Briggs Type (I’m an ENFJ) that can explain this tendency, but regardless, I recognize that I often need to research,…
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Alternatives to Stacked Bars
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Stacked Bar Chart or Some Other Display? As with all charts, we need to think first about the different types and characteristics of the data we are working with before deciding on the most appropriate chart type. We can ask questions such as: What do we need to tell our viewers? Do we need them…