Vizible Difference

My post "Color your way to visual finesse" is selected as the "Best of the Tableau Web in October 2014" by Tableau Software:

http://bit.ly/best-tableau-web-october-2014

This follows an earlier recognition in August 2014:

http://bit.ly/best-of-tableau-web-august-2014

Thanks, Tableau community!

Your death depends on where you live. This is not surprising. We learnt it in things like "Gun, Germs and Steel" the book. Now we have serious data to prove it.

Recently, a viz of the day showed the causes of death in USA. Andy Kriebel published a makeover of the viz. As a follower of Andy's blog, I noticed there is a pattern in the distribution of the death rates from Andy's viz. It inspired me to further look into the data from a geo perspective.

Following the steps in this video, I can create a funnel chart.

http://www.tableausoftware.com/learn/tutorials/on-demand/funnel-charts

But, there are a few things that the trainer didn't elaborate in order to make a complete funnel chart in practice. So here you go.

1.Get data in order

Before creating a funnel chart, you need a simple table with 2 columns: Phase (dimension) and Value (measure). This step is required especially if you have a dynamic data source for each phase.