Vizible Difference

These are slight variations from Ryan Sleeper's blog and Andy Kriebel's blog on designing donut chart. Please refer to Andy's blog for the step-by-step tutorial.

By making part of the circle white, it shows a stronger contrast between actual and distance-to-goal.

Example 1: Donut with border

This recreates exactly Ryan Sleeper's design without using a jpeg picture. To make the border appear, you need to click the color mark, and select the border of interest. Note that we need to add border to both outer and inner pie charts.

Example 2: Partial donut 

Without border, the partial donut looks quite interesting. It stresses on the incompleteness of the progress. It's up to you which variation is of interest to you.

To make "Left-to-goal" in white, we need white color in color palette.

Bump chart is a two-dimensional ranking visualization tool. It allows us to visualize data rank by one dimension which changes along the other dimension. One example is the soccer league ranking by team along weekly schedule. Here is a video that teaches us how to create a bump chart:

http://www.tableausoftware.com/learn/tutorials/on-demand/bump-charts-0

The Limitations of Bump Chart

Bump chart has its own limitations: When there are a few teams, it is easy to see and track the rank changes.

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.