Tag Archives: Mapping

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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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  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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  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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