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...
by George Gorczynski | Aug 12, 2015 | Data scraping, How To, Tableau
Love him and his music or not, Bob Dylan is considered by many to be one of the greatest lyricists of all time. He has recorded 36 studio albums, written hundreds of songs, and is still touring the world, performing at dozens of concerts each year. Not bad...
