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Select Analysis in the top menu and check Trend Lines.

Change Color to purple, open the Drop down menu next to “Automatic” and select Circle, then move the slider below to the left to increase transparency of the points.

Without this step, Tableau’s default behavior is to sum the values across all the counties and states, which will give you a single data point for each graph, and not the desired scatter plots.

Drag “County” and “State” into Level of Detail.

Drag “Adult obesity rate” onto Rows and “% smokers”, “% eating few fruits and vegetables” and “% who do not exercise” into Columns.

Rename the worksheet “Map View” by right-clicking on the tab at the bottom. Finished state of the first view looks like the following.

Right click on “State” in the Filters shelf and select Show Quick Filter.

Click and drag “State” into the Filters shelf, click OK at the dialog box.

Now add a filter to enable the selection of individual states.

Drag “Adult obesity rate” from the Measures panel into Color, and copy it into Size shelf to encode counties by those values.

Now you have a map showing a dot for every county where you have a record.

Right click on the Exclusions in Filter and select Make Global, so that this will apply to all subsequent views.

Right click on the selected null values and select Exclude. Select them by clicking to one side of the point, keep the mouse button depressed to draw a rectangle over it, then release.

Notice there is a point at 0 degrees latitude and longitude.

You may get a warning message if so, check so that you don’t see it again. Tableau Public recognizes they are geographical fields and geocodes them accordingly. Tableau automatically recognizes categorical fields, like “State”, and numerical measures like “Adult obesity rate”.

At the dialog box, click OK to connect.

Drag and drop your dataset on top of the Tableau Public icon on your desktop to open.

The data details physical activity, obesity, and other health information in nearly 100 columns, for more than 3000 rows, one for each county in the US.

I shall be putting the source file in for you all. Tableau Public is great at building visualizations like this and we can recreate this one with just a few simple steps. I redesigned the graphics to better show these proclivities and added the ability to link to the PolitiFact findings. Tableau Public, much like Tableau, is this easy-to-use tool for telling visual interactive stories on the web with the only exception that it’s absolutely free!įor example, the New York Times published an article in December 2015 that contained an infographic showing the tendencies of politicians to lie or tell the truth, based on findings from PolitiFact. Which just adds to the reasons you should learn Tableaufor. It even allows a non-technical user to create a customized dashboard.

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The data that is created using Tableau can be understood by the professional at any level in an organization. In this blog, we shall discuss the following concepts:ĭata analysis is very fast with Tableau and the visualizations created are in the form of dashboards and worksheets. Now, because of its utility to beginners, it makes for a very essential module in most Tableau Training Curriculum. However, for someone just beginning to explore this tool, it isn’t really feasible to cough up the kind of money it requires. It helps in simplifying raw data into a very easily understandable format.

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For this reason, I recommend you do not use a Surface Pro for this training.Tableau is a powerful and one of the fastest growing data visualization tools used in the Business Intelligence Industry.

NOTE: Those with Surface Pro 4 devices have reported some problems with how Tableau looks on their machine, which can make working with Tableau much more difficult. Especially if you're on a Mac, as some people have had problems with Tableau not working with their version of OS X. However, to avoid any nasty surprises, I recommend installing Tableau Public - and making sure it's running properly - before registering for the workshop.

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If you're running an earlier version, just download the newest version (you don't need to uninstall the old version first).Īs long as you have a PC running Windows 7, 8 or 10, or a Mac that's no more than four years old and running OS X 10.8.1 or later, you should be able to run Tableau Public no problem ( detailed system requirements for Tableau here). NOTE: You should make sure you have the latest version of Tableau Public for this workshop. To participate in Tableau Training, you need to have Tableau Public installed on your laptop.

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