AI's Perception of People Looks in USA
Buzzfeed recently asked Midjourney to draw images of people in 50 US states. So the AI drawing tool created 50 images of couples that represent its perception of the people in each state.
I just put the images into a tiled map in Tableau. Each image is added as a background in each tile.
AI's Perception of Top US Banks as a Dog
The folks at Business Expert had a brilliant idea. They asked AI's perception on UK banks as a dog. I am inspired to do the same on US banks.
ChatGPT is asked to confess its perceptions on top US banks as a dog. Then Midjourney is tasked to generate the images.
Multi-Level Sankey with the New Sankey Chart Type in Tableau
Through my previous post on the new Sankey chart type, I got in touch with Wilson, the product manager leading the development of this new chart type. I made some comments on creating multi-level Sankey via cascading of single Sankey's.
A First Look into the New Sankey Chart Type in Tableau
As an enthusiastic user of Sankey charts, I am excited to learn that a Sankey chart type is being piloted in Tableau Public (Web Edit only). I wrote about Sankey chart design in multiple posts. Sankey chart may appear in different forms depending on applications.
Visualizing Cross-Tab Tables with Column Sort
Just came across a report by Reuters on USA-China gap widens between respective internet giants. The report includes a text table. The caption says the table columns can be sorted. But it is a static image. (They retracted the table after I reported the issue.)
It picked my interest.
A Couple of Mismatches in Tableau's Map
In the process of creating a dashboard on the US Travel Advisory 2023, I found some mismatches in a few regions in two countries.
Gaza Strip
One is Gaza Strip in Palestinian Territories. In the latter, there are two regions: Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Converting Date to Fiscal Calendar Date in Excel
This is a follow up post to Fiscal Calendar Calculations Cheatsheet for Tableau.
Excel is a very important tool for data analysis and calculations. It's also an important data repository for Tableau.
Converting Date to Fiscal Calendar Date in Tableau
Week-based calendars are used in many companies as their fiscal calendars. The total weeks in a fiscal year is 52 weeks, that is, 364 days. Each quarter has 13 weeks. There are 3 varieties of 13 weeks: 5-4-4, 4-5-4 and 4-4-5 weeks per quarter. In leap years, there are 53 weeks or 371 days.
