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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.
