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.
By making part of the circle white, it shows a stronger contrast between actual and distance-to-goal.
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.
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!
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.
Recently, a viz of the day showed the causes of death in USA. Andy Kriebel published a makeover of the viz.
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.
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.
One of my blogs has been recognized as Best of Tableau Web August 2014.
http://www.tableausoftware.com/about/blog/2014/8/best-tableau-web-august-2014-32837
I am using Tableau to visualize its own inner working.
http://www.tableausoftware.com/about/blog/2014/8/best-tableau-web-august-2014-32837
I am using Tableau to visualize its own inner working.
I am trying out this new feature Story in Tableau by making a stack of worksheets and dashboards, reminiscent of Microsoft PowerPoint. To me, the story feature is creating a higher hierarchy: Story>Dashboard>Worksheet.
My first quick stab: International Students in USA's top 25 places of origin.
My first quick stab: International Students in USA's top 25 places of origin.
I struggled about whether to attend the breakfast session at Westin St Francis in downtown San Francisco at 7:30am. I am glad I made it. The chilly morning breeze helped clear my head. It is always chilly in the city and morning is a little chillier.
[Note: Part 1 is at http://vizdiff.blogspot.com/2014/08/revisit-of-rank-functions-in-tableau.html]
In my last blog on rank functions in Tableau, I found out that the chart of rank() and rank_percentile() can exactly overlap each other, given the same scale.
In my last blog on rank functions in Tableau, I found out that the chart of rank() and rank_percentile() can exactly overlap each other, given the same scale.
In my last post, I used a dynamic pie chart to visualize the revenue share between top N teams and the rest of the league. It gives a pretty strong visual cue about the share size for a given N. We can set any N (between 1-19) to see different shares.
In a comment by TarikB at the end of Andy Kriebel's recent article, Tarik would like to see the revenue share of the top teams versus that of the rest of the league. It is where I got the inspiration to design a dynamic pie chart.
This dashboard is an attempt to visualize the TV and commercial revenue spread among the 20 teams.
It's common that in one workbook we have multiple tabs. One of the tabs is supposed to be the cover tab or the default tab. We need a way to define or select one tab as the cover tab. Tableau always makes the one I am working on as the cover. That's not correct.
