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Time magazine recently published a map of state budget shortfalls for 2011 by state. While this was a good attempt, I thought it would be informative to show this data in Tableau to offer additional insight. The image of Time’s map is not as clear as a regular scanned image since I used my iPhone- taking the photo on a flight!
There are three primary areas for improvement
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From datadoodle,
So many people who should know better seem to miss the point when they mention Tableau. Why? I asked BI veteran Stephen McDaniel for his thoughts — which he gave, but then went on to suggest an almost unheard of challenge: a data analysis face-off among vendors
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I read with fascination that this visualization won the Sunlight Foundation’s $5,000 prize for “Best Visualization Using Data about US Spending”.
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A great summary of key requirements to build a data-driven culture, by Chris Stolte, Tableau co-founder:
1. Don’t fear the user,
2. Encourage corporate curiosity,
3. Manage to the outliers,
4. Measure, experiment and then measure again, and
5. Build trust and understanding.
I would add two more points, one of which Chris is too modest to state,
6. From my experience working at Netflix, no matter the level of decision-maker, ask them for the data to back up their decision and to examine the results of their decisions.
7. Deploy Tableau in your business- speed of insight is critical to the value of data in many business needs. Tableau quickly delivers beautiful insights that are understandable by all of your employees. There is no other application like it!
Read the article and see Chris’s comments first hand.
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The “Simple Business Dashboard Design Strategies” presentation can be downloaded here. I am presenting this presentation today at 4 PM Pacific on Stacey Barr’s Measure and More Webinar.
The dashboard example in this presentation is available below.
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Inspired by a post at Flowing Data, I present three visuals that demonstrate how the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine could improve the presentation of this vital information. I personally found it shocking that US agricultural subsidies were so small
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Stephen Few has has been an inspiration to us through the years. He has patiently prodded software companies to improve their tools for visual presentation of information, motivated by the sincere hope to improve the world we all live in.
At Freakalytics, we incorporate his content
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010- 2:00 PM Eastern Time / 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Click here to read the details about this dashboard, from our blog post last June.
Embedding tableau public content is simple and quick. Your web site visitors will need NO software installation, since Tableau depends on native Ajax functionality used by sites like GMail. Although not officially supported in the current release, tableau public is viewable and functions interactively on the iPhone based on our simple tests!
On your Tableau journey, consider…
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SAS 9.2 is a big leap forward in many areas. One of them is a variety of new graph types and easy access to creation in SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2. I think these two charts offer a fascinating look at the 2008 Presidential Election Results using SAS Maps and Tile Charts from the upcoming book, “SAS for Dummies”, updated for SAS 9.2 and available for purchase this Spring!
One of my favorite new examples added to the 9.2 edition of the book shows the 2008 presidential election results in two views: a map of the US with the winner by % margin of victory and a tile chart showing the state size, the winner and their % margin of victory. Due to the black and white nature of the book, these are shown in grayscale in the book and here on the blog.
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This workbook is an example of spotlighting in Tableau. Spotlighting involves applying user rules about data values to spot certain outcomes. With Tableau it is simple to apply basic to complex rules for spotlighting. This is beyond the standard highlighting capabilities available by placing measures on the color shelf.
As this example demonstrates, fairly complex rules can be used in Tableau to control spotlighting in simple calculated fields. Comments appear on the captions in each view (bottom of each view area in the Tableau workbook.)
Text Table Spotlighting
Bar Chart Spotlighting
This example was
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Announcing the availability of our first Tableau Training location in 2010- sunny, warm Orlando, FL! Topics include visual analysis for presentation, data exploration and dashboard design. Tableau Certification is also available. Read the details and find other upcoming locations in 2010 at http://www.Freakalytics.com/training.
Freakalytics also works with many leading organizations to present our highly-rated training on-site, see http://www.freakalytics.com/consulting. On-site training is a great value for teams of 5 or more people seeking to make the most of their investment in Tableau Software in short order!
Add Your Comment HereThe 1st workbook walks you through building a standard Waterfall chart in Tableau. Waterfall charts are intended to show you how cash balances change over time based on transactions that either add to or subtract from the cash account of a business.
As this example demonstrates, many non-standard chart types can be created in Tableau using advanced features of the product. This chart type is a frequent request of students in our public and on-site Tableau training courses.
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