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Make Your Mark: Beyond Bars & Lines

Ben Jones Kevin Taylor Technical Evangelist, Director Sales Consultant Tableau Software – Seattle, WA Tableau Software – Raleigh, NC @DataRemixed @KevinTaylorNC Kevin Taylor Sales Consultant – Raleigh, North Carolina

• 19 Years in Business Intelligence (5 years as a Tableau Customer)

• I have 2 male fish (not pictured)

• I love trilogies Agenda (TC18)

+ Shape Fill + Animating Dashboard w/ Pages + Loupe + Marginal Histograms + Radial Starburst + Dimension Line Plots + Sankey In good information , there are no rules, no guidelines, no standard technologies, no stylebooks…You must simply do whatever it takes.

Edward Tufte American Statistician & Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics and Computer Science at Yale University Shape Fills

Good Use Cases: • Goal Attainment • % Fill Tableau Needs: • Bar • Transparent PNG image(s) Caution: • Multiple shapes = Multiple sizes • Inconsistent Border Resources: Kevin Flerlage – Data Viz Dimension Line Plots

Good Use Cases: • Show change from one point to another • Show distance between two points (2 arrows) Tableau Needs: • Custom arrows in Shapes repository • Gantt with Dual Axes Caution: • None

Resources: • DataRemixed tutorial • http://dataremixed.com/2014/04/dimension- line-charts/ Loupe Map

Good Use Cases: • Zoom in on Map with too many points • Do so without losing Context of overall Tableau Needs: • Viz-In-Tooltip • Dual Axis • ROUND Function / Bins Resources: Alan Eldridge – The Last Data Bender Evgenia Stancheva - Tableau Marginal Histograms

Good Use Cases: • Good addition to almost any scatterplot • Shows distribution on each dimension Tableau Needs: • Custom arrows in Shapes repository • Gantt chart with Dual Axes Caution: • Can be tricky to align bars to circles

Resources: • DataRemixed tutorial • http://dataremixed.com/2015/09/scatterplot- marginal-histograms-tableau/ Starburst / Radial Bar / Sun-Dial

Good Use Cases: • Capture Attention • Match your story (time, wind directions) Tableau Needs: • PI, SIN & COS Functions • Calculations for Radial Angle & Length, X & Y • Path Field in Data Resources: Dave Hart – Formerly of Interworks Control / ImR / Process Behavior Charts

Good Use Cases: • Check time series data for statistical outliers • Process output over time Tableau Needs: • Window_Avg calcs • Signal formulas

Caution: • There are different types of control charts for multiple samples (XmR) & proportions (p-chart)

Resources: • DataRemixed tutorial • http://dataremixed.com/2011/10/how-to-make- control-charts-with-tableau/ Sankey Diagram

Good Use Cases: • FLOW • Process Flows • Work Flows • People Flows • You Need Something SEXY Tableau Needs: • Stacked Bar Charts • Duplicate Data Set + Additional Field • Calculations for Padding, Curve & T-Score Resources: Chris Love – The Information Lab TC16 TC17

+ Heatmap Calendars + Sankey + Pareto Charts + Control Charts + Hex-Tile + Custom Image Mapping + Trellis Charts + Radar Charts + Lollipop Charts + HexBin Density Charts + Donut Charts + Arc Diagrams + Waffle Charts + Bump Charts Please complete the session survey from the My Evaluations menu in your TC18 app #TC18

Thank you!