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Turnip Graph in Tableau
A Turnip graph displays the distribution of an analysis variable, displaying the markers with the same (or close) Y coordinate spread across the X axis range – (thanks SAS Blog for the description – more here Scalable Turnip Graph – Graphically Speaking ). These aren’t native to Tableau so we need to do a little…
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Secondary Suppression in Tableau
Suppression is an interesting challenge. The most obvious method of dealing with it is to do some ETL before you even load the data into Tableau, and this method is suitable 99.9% of the time. Further, you can copy a measure, run an IF [Value] <=5 THEN ‘NA’ ELSE [Value] END to create a suppression…
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Building visualizations in Federal Government
Here is some guidance I have put together to help out in a Federal Government area. While this is my own writing, it started out life as something written by the Tableau folks, which I added in some of the special sauce that makes me a better visualization developer. The 12 WCAG 2.0 AA compliance…
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The core viz build
I’m going to be using what I have termed the core viz to demonstrate some basic layout techniques coming together in a simple viz design. The purpose of this is to setup some very general principles that are some of the fundamental things I do with a visualisation largely even before I’ve had a coffee,…
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/*Print Hello World*/
Hello, world. This is a blog I intend on only writing intermittently. My name is Peter Fakan and I have been a Tableau Forums Ambassador now since 2019, so its a bit long overdue. To date I’ve done a couple of guest posts on the Flerlage blog and Jeffrey Shaffer’s site that I’ll link to…