by George Gorczynski | Aug 13, 2017 | How To, Tableau
It is not a secret that women in films are underrepresented and underpaid compared to their male partners. But what exactly is a percentage of films with women in lead roles compared to films led by men? I explored movies released so far in 2017 to find out. The most...
by George Gorczynski | May 22, 2017 | FME, How To, Tableau
What on earth is a Voronoi diagram? Put simply, it’s a graphical representation of proximity analysis that can be easily recognized by its characteristic cell-like structures. Each point in a Voronoi diagram is surrounded by a polygon (cell) that contains...
by George Gorczynski | Apr 15, 2017 | How To, Tableau
Maps are tricky, especially quantitative choropleth maps. Not because they are hard to make in Tableau. Just the opposite, it takes just a few mouse clicks to make one but is it right? It depends on the data. When you drop a continuous measure on the Filled Map,...
by George Gorczynski | Mar 19, 2017 | FME, How To, Tableau
If you’ve played with Tableau’s new spatial data connector, you might have come across an error like this: or even this: The first error message will pop up if you try to connect to a spatial file containing lines and the second when your spatial file...
by George Gorczynski | Mar 18, 2017 | FME, How To, Tableau
I recently had an opportunity to test the new spatial data connector in Tableau. It is a highly anticipated addition to the long list of connectors that allows you to work with ESRI Shapefiles, KML, MapInfo, and GeoJSON files directly in Tableau. The connector can...
