All tagged Data Visualizations
Sometimes, you have too many values in a dimension on the rows shelf in your Tableau worksheet and end up with a scroll bar. Annoying, right? Scroll bars mean your users are less likely to see the data at the bottom of your worksheet because it it out of sight and out of mind.
One idea I've heard discussed is, what if you could break the data into multiple columns? For example, instead of displaying 50 states as a single column of 50 rows, could you display it at 2 columns or 25 rows?
We're looking at Tree Maps this week! If you're trying to show breakdowns of the whole in Tableau, you need to have Tree Maps in your tool kit.
Tree Maps are amazing because:
They're particularly good at representing data with long tails.
They can represent data in a hierarchical structure (we can build Tree Maps within Tree Maps)!
They're space-efficient, and allow us to visualize many dimensions or measures in one view.
Tableau is a fantastic data visualization tool, but memorizing some of the initial data visualization rules is hard. It might only take a few clicks to create a scatter plot or a highlight table, but you need to know exactly *which* clicks to make in order to create those charts.
