Tag Archives: Custom Geocoding
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Tableau Mapping Tip: Geographic Drill Down
Posted on February 17, 2015 by Joshua Milligan in All, Calculations, Data Blending & Joining, Mapping / Geographic Visualization, Tableau Tip Tuesday, Tips and Tricks.Previously, we saw how to capture and use Tableau’s automatically generated latitude and longitude for custom geocoding. Now, we’ll extend that technique to give us the ability to drill up and down on various levels of geographic detail in a single visualization: The data is fairly standard. We have Regions which contain 2 or […]
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Poor Man’s Custom Geocoding in Tableau (Part 2)
Posted on February 10, 2015 by Joshua Milligan in All, Data Blending & Joining, Mapping / Geographic Visualization, Tableau Tip Tuesday, Tips and Tricks.Last time we looked at a simple way to implement custom geocoding in Tableau using the ability to assign latitude and longitude to unknown locations. That’s a fairly good option if you only have a few locaitons and only need to plot marks on a map or two in a single workbook. But what happens if […]
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Tableau Tip Tuesday: Poor Man’s Custom Geocoding (Part 1)
Posted on February 3, 2015 by Joshua Milligan in All, Dashboards, Mapping / Geographic Visualization, Tableau Tip Tuesday, Tips and Tricks.Tableau has outstanding built-in geocoding capabilities. If you have countries, states, zip codes, congressional districts, statistical areas, etc… in your data then Tableau knows where to plot marks on a map. But there are times when you have data that doesn’t match up with standard geographic locations. There are great tools and techniques out there for generating […]
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Joshua Milligan is a four-time Tableau Zen Master. His passion is training, mentoring, and helping people gain insights and make decisions based on their data through data visualization using Tableau.
He is a principal consultant at Teknion Data Solutions, where he has served clients in numerous industries since 2004.
Joshua served as technical reviewer on several Tableau titles and is the author of the book Learning Tableau.
