January 3, 2023
#MakeoverMonday 2023 Week 1 - The Change in Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere
2023 is here and #MakeoverMonday will be here the entire you to help you continue to learn and improve. Come on the journey with us each week. Build your portfolio. Showcase your skills. You just might get that job you've been seeking. It's happened, a lot, by participating every week.
For week 1, we were analyzing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from 1979-2021. The original visualization is quite simple.
We have CO2 and total gases on the left axis and the variance to 1990 on the right. Overall, the chart is pretty easy to read, with the exception of knowing that the red line is always compared to the 1990 value. That definitely needs to be more clear. It's also missing a title, so without the website it is posted on, you wouldn't necessarily know what it's about.
For my viz, I started by reproducing the original, but it doesn't look as good because the data we have starts at 1979. So you miss the big upward curve. From there, I focused primarily on making good looking sparklines that show comparisons with a parameter action. I also showed how to create an "area chart" with multiple colors. I'm going to create a tip video for it; I like how it turned out.
Here's the livestream and below is the visualization for you to interact with. The viz does not render properly on Tableau Public, but hopefully you get the idea.
I hope you continue to join me throughout the year so that we can learn together.
Have a wonderful 2023!
May 25, 2022
#WOW2022 Week 20 - Monthly Sales vs. Target
Resources
- Week 20 Challenge
- My Solution (image below)
February 22, 2022
How to Displays Multiple Measures on Multiple Rows
July 12, 2021
#MakeoverMonday 2021 Week 28 - COVID Vaccination Rates by Ethnicity and Age in England
January 26, 2021
Three Methods for Creating Bar Charts that Fill to 100%
November 24, 2020
How to Create a Combination Bar Chart & Candlestick Chart
In a recent Makeover Monday #WatchMeViz, I showed how to create a bar chart to compare two measures and then add a candlestick chart as well to show the difference between the two measures. It's actually quite simple; it requires some knowledge of:
- How Measure Names and Measure Values work together
- How to create a combined axis chart
- How to create a dual axis chart
- How to create a Gantt chart
August 29, 2018
Tableau Tip: How to Create Rounded Bar Charts
The end goal is a chart that looks like this:
You can download the workbook by clicking on the download link on the toolbar below the video.
September 13, 2016
Tableau Tip Tuesday: How to Create a Combination Chart with Overlapping Bars & a Line
In this week’s tip, I look back at one of my most popular posts - 7 easy steps to create a combination chart with overlapping bars & a line. The tip hasn’t changed much, however, this time there’s a video.
