Questions tagged [tableau]
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What do Python's pandas/matplotlib/seaborn bring to the table that Tableau does not?
I spent the past year learning Python. As a person who thought coding was impossible to learn for those outside of the CS/IT sphere, I was obviously gobsmacked by the power of a few lines of Python ...
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Where can I find resources and papers regarding Data Science in the area of Public Health
I'm quite new to Data Science, but I would like to do a project to learn more about it.
My subject will be Data Understanding in Public Health.
So I want to do some introductory research to public ...
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List of used aliases in Tableau
I often get the problem when this or that alias name is already used somewhere, and I can't easily find that variable or aggregation to release the name.
Is there some place in Tableau where I can ...
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How to visualise multidimensional categorical data with additional time dimension
I am trying to visualize a dataset that registers the career of people in an organisation and their backgrounds before starting in that particular organisation. I 'd like to show how individuals are ...
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What are the differences between multivariate data visualizations and multidimensional visualizations?
I believe this should be the correct place for this topic since it did not seem to fit naturally on the math Stack Exchange.
I am writing an essay about data visualization, but am having trouble ...
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When Should I Use ggplot2 Instead of Tableau? [closed]
I am a student getting started with Tableau for the first time. My proficiency with ggplot2 is intermediate. I can create custom versions of the most popular kinds of charts in ggplot2 but nothing too ...
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Use Pivoted / Filtered Data as the basis for a Report?
I have a worksheet in Tableau that is organized into rows and columns and filtered on an aggregate calculation just the way I want it. I'd like to make a report based on this workbook's results but I ...
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Breaking down a column in Pandas into a separate CSV for display in Tableau
My data is coming from a CSV, which should be visualized in Tableau.
However, the data contains the column category_list, which consists of values separated by a ...
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Tableau can be used as a big datastore as well?
Company wants to use Tableau solution for visual reporting. The inputs are various files. The plan is to use latest SQL Server as database and server.
Q. Does Tableau has their own database ? Can ...
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Change raw count to a proportion based on a filter in Tableau
In Tableau, I commonly want to carry out a task like distinguishing 2 groups by various measures.
The example below shows the difference in the count of 2 treatment and control for variable levels of ...
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Tableau year-to-year change in grand total
New to Tableau and having some problems with a calculation I thought would be easy.
I have data with one value per month running across a few years. I would simply like to display a table with the ...
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Organizing data sources when working with multiple tables from one database
I'm working with a workbook that has a dozen or so dashboards, each showing information stored in a different table in a MS SQL Server database. The information is pre-summarized, Tableau is just ...
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Tableau - Take row-wise data and pivot it to have an output table based on separate table of product hierarchies
I have sales data with a unique customer ID on each row and their corresponding sales by Product on columns. I have a separate table for product hierarchy, which has a mapping of all products (column ...
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Data type detection in Tableau [closed]
When you connect a data source, Tableau automatically infers the type of each column of your data. Whether it's Number (decimal), Number (whole), String, Boolean, etc. A few questions about this:
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Change aliases of filter items in Tableau
Data sample contains a single feature: random integer number from 1 to 4.
Is it possble to change 1,2,3,4 representation on the filter card to some custom names, ...
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Tableau: How to select data points in map to filter data?
I would like to filter my data to only present observations taking place in Berlin (where data points are concentrated in the image below). How can this be achieved? The only geographical information ...
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Which visualization tool should I use?
We consider the below function :
$f(x,y,z,a) = x*y*z*a$, where $x,y \in \mathbb{Q}\cap[0,1000],$ $ a\in\{2,3\} $
and $z=z(x)$, taking values from the below table based on the level-range that $x$ ...
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Tableau: Clustering based on value-range for map coloring
Is there a possibility to cluster coloring for certain statistical ranges?
This is what I have been able to achieve so far.
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Output data from scikit learn logistic regression
I have run a logistic regression using scikit learn in python. I know want to output the results to put into a csv and then load into Tableau. To do that I need to combine the y_test, y_actual, and ...
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Tools to preprocess a big data for dashboards?
I have a complex dataset with more than 16M rows coming from pharmaceutical industry. Regarding the data, it is saved in a sql server with multiple (more than 400) relational tables. Data got several ...
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Visualize performance, % of goal implementation
I want to visualize goal achievment progress.
This is my first idea:
use area chart to show progress in current metric
use horizontal band to show the goal value
colorize areas under/above the band ...
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Tableau Calculated Field Help
Tableau newbie here would really appreciate some help with a calculated field.
Let's say I have some data:
Patient ID
Appointment Date
10001
1/1/2019
10001
4/5/2018
10001
2/3/2021
10002
3/2/2019
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Why is my Tableau correlation coefficient different from what I calculated using Python?
I'm required to create a correlation matrix table using Tableau so I've created a version using Python to check if I did everything right.
The numbers are coming out different for both calculations. ...
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In Tableau, how can I create sub-category fields out of an overarching dimension?
I have a data set where it's more or less a star schema-like format, but in an Excel file. Don't worry about primary keys setup or any of that unless it significantly matters for answering this ...
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How to display an Heat Map (using Tableau or other BI tool)?
I've a simple dataset:
Id
Longitude
Latitude
Value
What can I obtain at the moment are "one map point" in every place.. Sum of Value don't affect "density" color.
I would like to display a ...
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Customer Targeting for CRM Marketing Campaign [closed]
I need help or ideas to solve the below business challenge. Sample questions has been provided. A snapshot of the sample data has been attached below:
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Best practice for computing week-over-week change in MAU metric
When we calculate week over week change for a metric like "Monthly active users", we often refer to a calculation of SUM(This week) - SUM(Last week)/SUM(Last week), which means we will run total of ...
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How to get polygons to display 'room' or 'equipment' and not nest together?
I have a dataset where I have Rooms and inside the Rooms are pieces of equipment. The way the data is scrubbed is that equipment has an equipment name and room number and the room just has a room ...
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How do I change the label of a Grand Total in Tableau Server
I have a simple grid with many columns and rows, with numeric data. I added a grand total row at the bottom by going to Analysis -> Totals -> Show Column Grand Totals.
The label for this row is ...
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Filter across dashboard components
Is it possible to create a dashboard filter that will filter the data across all the components in the dashboard. For example, if all the components have quarterly data and have a quarter field, can ...
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Filter relevant geojson data based on a selected datapoint
I'll outline the situation and challenge I have a bit more clearly. I have multiple different datasets:
A set of locations where products are sold (name, long, lat)
A geojson dataset with geometry (...
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Can I know if there's anyway to download Tableau report from server along with Title and Description in excel form?
I would like to download a Tableau report with the title footer and description written in Crosstab as it gets in PDF?
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Cannot figure out how to make THIS particular data set long-form (theory, not even code)
I am a tableau developer, but I know Python, stats, and, in short, I think you all will be best able to solve my problem.
There is a universal filter on Facility. This means that any dataset/sheet ...
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Tableau - Filter Buttons not filtering correctly
I created filter buttons to use as a filter for 6 category's (measures) in Tableau Public (latest version) so when you click on them the values for each display on my "Military Enrollment By ...
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Three data sets in one plot in Tableau
The goal is to plot three data sets in one plot: (DATE1_GOOD, DATE1_BAD); (DATE2_GOOD, DATE2_BAD); (DATE3_GOOD, DATE3_BAD). Unfortunately, I'm getting all possible combinations:
So now the task is to ...
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Tableau: Dealing with Date values [closed]
Im a noob at tableau. I have a quick question
I have data that doesn't explicitly list the date. (There is no column labelled "date" )
However there are columns with the following headers:
"Income ...
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Self Union All in Tableau Public for Sankey Diagram
I'm following this 2017 YouTube tutorial from which I hope to learn Sankey diagrams.
At 2:28, he instructs us to select Convert to Custom SQL, after having opened ...
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Tableau: Displaying Averages and Aggregate Calculations In Filtered Visualizations
I'm new to Tableau and I just started by making a graph with multiple filters. What I want to do is display some averages of some columns and other aggregate functions dynamically as the filters are ...
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Tableau dashboard to easily show data from different quarters
I have 2 data sources linked that are the same format but from 2 different quarters. My boss wants to have 1 dashboard with an option to flip between the 2 quarters data so the graphs and things ...
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How to make good visualization of time series data using tableau?
The time series data looks like this:
Month
Count1
Count2
1
20
100
2
40
200
3
100
17
4
21
12
I have tried to use area charts or basic line/bar charts to visualize the two counts based on the ...
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How to draw line plot with multiple lines on Tableau?
I have 4 different measures which I want all on the SAME line plot. They do have the same scale. I tried dual axis but it doesn't work for more than 2 plots.
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How to Get Live Data Updates & Graphing with Tableau Public
I'm a big fan of Tableau's easy-to-use data visualization tools. I tried building dashboards with Python's dash package, but it was too complex for me and Tableau ...
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Connect Tableau and KoBoToolbox
Is it possible to connect kobotoolbox to tableau in any way?
Any kind of method would be much appreciated.
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Connect and publish with Tableau and Azure Analysis Services
My organization is migrating to another platform and we need to replicate the reports we have made with Power BI in Tableau, but the problem is that our server data is in Azure Analysis Services, but ...
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How to change name of a sheet while performing inner join
I need to join the same sheet (Airports) twice while performing inner join with Routes. First I inner join Routes (IATA of arrival flights) with IATA of airports in Airports. Unable to proceed with ...
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Average of Percentages of the last 3 columns in the table, and Average of Percentages of the 6 columns
Hello! How can I get the average of %'s of rightmost 3 columns, and all 6 columns in Tableau? Please help.
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Calculating row-level ratios in a table view
I am trying to get the fulfillment ratio by Destination Distribution Entity
Fulfillment Status is a property on a record called a 'directive'
I have no idea how to do this, any help is very ...
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How to re-translate a forecast I wrote in R run on a dataset I downloaded from Tableau back into a SCRIPT_REAL function in Tableau
I want to add a SARIMA forecast of the next two days onto each line in the following Tableau graph:
But Tableau only does Exponential Smoothing forecasts and if I create a moving average table ...
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Limit Salesforce objects and fields in Tableau Desktop
In connecting Salesforce to Tableau Desktop it brings in every single object as a table. Within each table/object it brings in every single field. The issue is there are many standard objects my org ...
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Are there any open datasets for commercial use?
I am creating a bootcamp for data analyst and it's been 2 days I am looking for some good dataset fit for commercial use that I can use to create Tableau and Power BI tutorials. Even on kaggle some ...