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What do Python's pandas/matplotlib/seaborn bring to the table that Tableau does not?
Don't worry - your hard-earned Python skills are still important ;)
Tableau is not a replacement - it is essentially a means of sharing your insights/findings. It is a wrapper around your normal ...
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List of used aliases in Tableau
Finally solved the issue.
You should go to:
Data –> your_data_source –> Edit Aliases –> Measure Names
And see full mapping between variables/...
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What do Python's pandas/matplotlib/seaborn bring to the table that Tableau does not?
There is the official answer and the realistic answer (from a business perspective):
Official
Officially the greatest thing your Python skills will bring you is flexibility. If you are going to run ...
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When Should I Use ggplot2 Instead of Tableau?
There is one big economic difference between the two: ggplot2 is an open source package for an open source programming language. On the contrary Tableau is a proprietary software. That might be a ...
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Breaking down a column in Pandas into a separate CSV for display in Tableau
If you don't need other columns, here is a solution. It splits the column, stacks in vertically and combines with "permalink" column
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How to visualise multidimensional categorical data with additional time dimension
This is something you can get in Tableau in 10 minutes.
What you need is year binning, skills weights and length(year_end - year_start) for Gannt chart:
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Where can I find resources and papers regarding Data Science in the area of Public Health
I don't think that you will learn much about data science (meaning, acquire understanding and skills) by using software tools like Tableau. Such tools are targeting mainly advanced users (not data ...
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Visualize performance, % of goal implementation
What information should be shown on the charts are based on what the viewer wants. From your sample charts, the x axis indicates 'date'. For time serial analysis, people usually want to know the ...
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How to visualise multidimensional categorical data with additional time dimension
Slightly variation of the @init-random's first plot is use of Boxplot. Here example for the TotalSize using same setup for d
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Output data from scikit learn logistic regression
Each line is treated independently at prediction, so you can be sure that the data is kept in the same order.
For simplicity, you can keep your data in a pandas dataframe. Here's a short working ...
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Where can I find resources and papers regarding Data Science in the area of Public Health
Go to pubmed.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
typing the key words of your interest, you will able to pull all the public health research papers with the keywords chronologically from all the ...
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Where can I find resources and papers regarding Data Science in the area of Public Health
For my research on medical data, I am very pleased with the features RapidMiner offers. Rapidminer
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Tableau: Clustering based on value-range for map coloring
You can, as an example, create a binned field for the measure. The value range can be specified in the tooltip. I used a single color based continuous palette since (population) total is a continuous ...
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What do Python's pandas/matplotlib/seaborn bring to the table that Tableau does not?
As someone who worked on a competitor to Tableau, Data Science skills have largely superseded the need for Bi Software for data munging, complex analysis and ad hoc reports.
But BI Software can still ...
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Which visualization tool should I use?
Based on your explanation, $z$ is not a parameter so your function can be simplified like this:
$$f(x,y,a) = x*y*z(x)*a\text{, where } x,y \in \mathbb{Q}\cap[0,1000], a\in\{2,3\} $$
Note that $z(x)$ ...
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Tableau: How to select data points in map to filter data?
Answer: for filter by a city, country or zone:
Drag and Drop the city field in the Filters zone ( Up - Left)
Right Click in the city dimension and Filter by zone
Select the zones that you want.
Apply
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How to make good visualization of time series data using tableau?
First of all you should transform the month column from number to date, so Tableau would consider it as real time series. The best way would probably be using ...
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Tableau dashboard to easily show data from different quarters
If the two sources are truly the same format, add a column to each denoting the quarter and then union them instead of loading them separately. All that will be left is to add a dashboard action on ...
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Tools for a data science job
I think your question is not clear enough. You need to be exact about the job description. But I have a suggestion for you to figure this out on your own.
Simply go to LinkedIn, look for the jobs you ...
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How to draw line plot with multiple lines on Tableau?
Use "Measure Values" in your Measures Tab. Pull it in Row, and then under the Measures Marks, pull in all the measures you want to display.
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How to Get Live Data Updates & Graphing with Tableau Public
I wrote the question above, worked on the problem a little longer, and came to the following solution.
Warning: it is anything but ideal, but it works.
Put simply I wrote a small Python script using ...
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When Should I Use ggplot2 Instead of Tableau?
This doesn't answer your Tableau questions, but I can say a few things about ggplot2. ggplot2's has reasonable defaults but nearly everything about the plots can be changed to make the results more ...
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What are the differences between multivariate data visualizations and multidimensional visualizations?
I don't think there is a well-defined (or well enough defined) terminology for that.
Multi-variate means that it involves multiple (dependent or independent) variables. Which is pretty clear.
Multi-...
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How to display an Heat Map (using Tableau or other BI tool)?
Set the latitude and put it under rows, select longitude and put it under cols.
Select value and drop it to the center of the sheet.
And under the marks dropdown select filled maps.
Make sure you ...
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Connect Tableau and KoBoToolbox
I see that Kobol offers a REST API. Thus, one could create WebDataConnector to fetch the data in Tableau. If that's an overkill, you could write a script in e.g. Python which extracts the data from ...
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Customer Targeting for CRM Marketing Campaign
Can you share all available columns in the data set? its hard to tell what data is there to use.
Given the data you show, I would have started with some explaratory analysis:
Group data per shops, ...
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Sorting bar chart in Tableau by one category of bars
To my knowledge you have to create an auxiliary variable
If [Entity] == "Industy" THEN [Volume] ELSE 0 END
Then you can sort by this. Right click on State then ...
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Best practice for computing week-over-week change in MAU metric
Both of these options have value if interpreted properly. You are trying to answer the question (I assume): 'are we doing better this week than last week?'
I don't know what industry you're in or ...
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Change raw count to a proportion based on a filter in Tableau
Yes, you can do this without reworking your, and as always, there are few ways to do it. Without seeing exact data, I would try setting table calculation to percent of total and then alter compute ...
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How to visualise multidimensional categorical data with additional time dimension
Update
Picking up from where we left off in the original post a quick interactive view to of the background areas can be made. I show this in a gif file here as you would need either the free Wolfram ...
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