Tag Archives: geospatial

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  Great Circles & Curved Flight Paths: Tableau & SQL Server Geospatial

  Posted on June 8, 2018 by Joshua Milligan in All, Calculations, Mapping / Geographic Visualization, New Features.

  How can you leverage SQL Server geospatial tools in Tableau to draw cool curved flight paths (or any great arcs)?  I’m glad you asked! When I first started learning Tableau, one of the most difficult things I encountered was the Path shelf.  I just didn’t get it.  Why would lines break when you placed certain […]

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  Draw circles with exact distance radius on maps in Tableau

  Posted on April 24, 2018 by Joshua Milligan in All, Calculations, DataViz, Mapping / Geographic Visualization, New Features, Tips and Tricks.

  Tableau 2018.1 introduces a lot of new features, especially geospatial features that open a whole new world of data exploration and analysis.  With support for SQL Server geospatial data types, there are near-infinite possibilities.  I’m sure I’ll have more than a few posts on various options soon!  Here’s one thing you can do: render circles […]

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  Hex Map Spatial File

  Posted on December 21, 2017 by Joshua Milligan in All, Data Shape & Structure, DataViz, Mapping / Geographic Visualization.

  I love hex maps! Especially for the United States, you can keep states in a basic geographic orientation, but eliminate the visual perception problems caused by the fact that some states are huge compared to others (and Alaska and Hawaii shift the scale when added). But there are a few headaches that can occur when […]

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