#TweakThursday 25: Drilling Down on Maps
There is an amazing Viz of the day on 12/20/2016 showing the mortality rate change in USA on certain diseases. Excellently designed!
There are over 3142 counties on each of the 6 maps. I would like to view some of the counties in details. So I added a mechanism to close in.
4 Approaches to Cross Join in Tableau
Cross Join is also called Cartesian Join. It's named after the great French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes. The original spelling of his family name is in two words: Des Cartes, therefore Cartesian.
2Creating Sankey Chart Made A Bit Easier
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Zen Master Chris Love wrote a Sankey chart tutorial which is quite popular. Actually the Sigmoid-based Sankey chart was first introduced to the Tableau world by another Zen Master Jeffrey Shaffer. I am a recent convert of Sigmoid curve and love it.
#TweakThursday 24: Using Tiled Map As Index
In the current #MakeoverMonday project of the week 50, Ben Jones created a very nice viz. I like the layout in general. But I feel the map is hard to use as state index. As we know, on a natural map, the smaller states or countries get penalized visually.
#TweakThursday 23: Creating Trochoids with 2 Rows of Data
Following previous post on Creating Sigmoid with 2 Rows of Data which is inspired by Rody Zakovich's post, I was looking for some interesting curves to apply the same trick.
Sankey Chart Basics: Drawing Curves with Sigmoid Function
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Sigmoid function can provide a smooth curve connecting two points in space. We have seen it in a number of graphical representations such as Sankey chart or this one.
Given any two points, a Sigmoid curve can be drawn between the two.
Boosting Stacked Area Chart
This is a sequel to my recent post: #TweakThursday 22: Ordering By Narrative. That one is focusing on dashboard tweaking. Here I would give details on ways of boosting a stacked area chart.
1#TweakThursday 22: Ordering By Narrative
[A sequel to this post: Boosting Stacked Area Chart]
I wrote a post called Ordering By Context before. In a recent Viz of The Day on 11/29/2016, I found that, a conspicuous narrative at the top of the chart, is labeled as "Bottom 90%".
