Showing posts with label Data Visualization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Data Visualization. Show all posts
Tableau can be used to create magic! Yes, Tableau can be used to create more than simple bar charts, and line charts. And here we will see how we can use that Tableau magic to create a Tableau Motion chart with custom shapes as a Tableau animation examples.
A Sankey Diagram, or an Energy Flow Diagram is a visualization used to depict a flow from one set of values to another. The things being connected are called nodes and the connections are called links. It is one of the most useful and difficult to create visualization in Tableau (I have written about how to create Sankey Diagrams in Tableau). The reason being, it takes a lot of effort to create the data in Tableau because we can even start creating the visualization.
However, if you can forgo Tableau, there are a number of tools available which lets you very easily create a Sankey Diagram online.
Every data has a story to tell. Now it's upto you how you want to present the story, you wanna create a dashboard, an infographics, or something else. Depending on your story comes the tools of the trade, Tableau, PowerBI, QliKView, or something lesser known, like D3. And not all of these tools are free, so here is a list of best free data visualization tools.
Every single person who is first introduced to Tableau goes through a sudden fit of creative designing. The Tableau Public Gallery plays an influential role in the same. These people, after getting inspired from the Tableau Public Gallery, starts filling their Tableau Public profiles with dozens of fancy charts. I have even see in Reddit users posting questions on what charts to create to woo those potential clients/employers.
But as time passes by, and they try start using Tableau in their professional lives, the euphoria evaporates! Where will they implement those beautiful, intricate, creative designs? All they get to do is to churn numbers, and create analysis based on those in stale bar charts. What now, is the question they ask themselves, often.
By default, Tableau gives you the ability to create 24 different chart types. However, our creative self demands more sacrifice. Enter custom charts in Tableau. But there are so many of them that it becomes difficult to remember how to create each one of them. Here's a list of Tableau charts tutorial which you can easily refer to whenever you need.
Looking at the same data in a different way can lead to new insights. So it's always best to let your users the ability to choose various chart types while they are viewing a Tableau dashboard. And the process using which we can do this is very simple, so you do not need to spend much time over this. Here's how you can do it.
More often than not, Data Scientists grapple with the task of making their visualizations look good. And by looking good I mean they go an extra mile to by spending a lot of time in setting the correct format for the Worksheets and the Dashboards, making the size of the elements in the Dashboards consistent, making the fonts consistent throughout the file instead of just focusing on the analysis.
That's some precious time wasted which they could have spend analyzing the data. That is why, I have created a pre-formatted template for Tableau Dashboards, which can be downloaded and used easily.
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