DATA ANALYTICS AND VISUALIZATION Tableau

Automating Data Extraction from a Tableau View using Alteryx + Python

Tableau Cloud and Server allows the users download manually data from a dashboard or a view. I received some requests during last year about how to automate this process. So here you have the procedure using Alteryx and Python, using Tableau Server REST API According to Tableau, with the Tableau ...

Spiral Heat Map

Do you like Heat Maps and have Time Based Data? Here’s a tutorial to build this Chart: Spiral Heat Map. Let’s build it with ClockWise and reverseClock Wise directions! This is the DataSet we are going yo use: Number of calls from 12pm to 11pm during 5 days. Feel free to use your own d...

Mekko Chart

Let’s build this time the Mekko Chart using SuperStore to visualize the % of Total Sales for each Category using 2 dimensions, Subcategory and ShipMode First of All, we calculate the Sales for each Ship Mode with 4 Calculated Fields: Then we calculate the % of Sales for each ShipMode, with ...

Cheese Donut Chart

Let’s build this chart in Tableau! We are going to visualize monthly the changes of sea max temperatures along different years, using this Data Set. Rename Max to Temperatura. This will be the KPI to Visualize. We will use a template to Join with the Data Set, to use densification. This wil...

Pipeline Chart

Pipeline Charts are useful to analyze visually the % of Conversion for each phase of your Sales, Marketing process Let’s start creating the Pipeline Chart in Tableau using this DataSet, where we can see the KPI Value per each phase of a different Campaigns. We have to add a column called Li...

Star Chart

If we need to analyse data by hours, we can create a Clock Chart to give a better context. We start with a Data Set with the dimension Time and data from KPI that we need to visualise. We would have to add a Link column in order to do a Join with a 5 point template. The objective is to create a 5...

360º View Chart

I thought about this 360º chart as an option to visualise all of the transactions in one or in various years, using the number of days in the year corresponding with a degree of a circumference.

Donuts in Circle chart

Lots of people ask me in trainings how to do Donut Charts. We do love donuts! With this Chart we can use a donut to compare data from each month compared with the yearly average, in order to obtain a quick insight.

Heart Chart

How to create a Chart in the shape of a heart.