I was recently helping a coworker on a dashboard and mentioned sheet swapping as a potential solution to a problem. My coworker stopped me mid-sentence and said “What on earth is sheet swapping?!” We operate in our own Tableau bubble, and sometimes assume everyone else knows exactly what we do, I’m hoping Workout Wednesday is …
I recently came across a material design style guide for data visualization, and wanted to try some of the concepts. Google has many design guides based on their material design concept, but none related to data visualization until just recently. These style guides are great for getting new ideas, just make sure you don’t get …
This week we’re visualizing conflict data provided by ACLED. ACLED, which stands for Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, is a “disaggregated conflict collection, analysis and crisis mapping project.” You’ll notice throughout the Tableau Community this week that there are several partner projects going on – all designed to provide awareness on ACLED’s cause. …
Week 34: Building an Interactive Display to Visualize Violence in the DRC Read More
It seems lately I have been giving the easy challenges, so I wanted to spice it up with something harder. This week we are going to deal with a new challenge that requires some thinking on Dashboard Actions and Data Modelling. The goal of this challenge is to open up how we think about Tableau …
