I want to help you level up your data visualization skills and projects.
My name is Tristan, I've been working in data visualization for 10 years. Currently Tableau Ambassador and Tableau Visionary. When not working for clients, I build tools and make videos!
This is amazing. One question is it possible to show subcategories as a drill down from categories in the extension you have? I have created something similar in Tableau using d3.js but it is not as visually appealing as yours, I was able to create a nodes as categories which can then be drill down with a click and it will show the sub-categories, I would like to try the same feature in the extension you have built.
I need the ability to automatically adjust the KPI granularity (last day/last week/last month) and switch between dynamic and comparison views, making it much simpler for me The idea is great, but there are still some things to improve!
Hi Tristan, thank you for all your effort. When I tried to download Beeswarms file to my Tableau Public it gives me an error, "Workbooks saved to Tableau Public must use active Tableau extracts. Right-click the data source and select Use Extract before publishing. The data source, Beeswarm, is not an active extract." Any way to remedy this please?
Hi @ladataviz. Thank you so much for your tool!! I am running into an issue - I created a nice shape network in your tool, but when I opened the twbx file in Tableau, it looks completely different with everything moved around. Do you know why? I am using Tableau desktop and do not have any commas in my nodes
This often happens when there is some special character in the data. I can take a look at your data if you send it to me. You can use the contact form on my website
Great Video! I am trying to replicate this for my dataset. I made sure the syntax in my json file is correct, but I am getting the following error. Could you please help with this? "Error: node not found: undefined"
Amazing tutorial! It would be even better if we can connect our own data (regularly updated data) to automatically update the graph. Not sure it's possible since the X and Y are seem to be randomly generated inside the ladataviz backend.
Thanks for the feedback. I am still adding new features and it's you are a full-time Tableau user, I think it's the right price when you compare how much time you can save. That being said, I might release a "Light" version at a lower price later this year.
For me the best path was to practice and create visualizations about subjects I enjoy. For each new visualization, try to learn a new technique. Get feedback through community initiatives like MakeOverMonday or IronQuest.
In the video I show that I am logged into my account. Then he showed that I have the ability to download the Tableau book when stock data is selected. After downloading my data and editing - no upload button is available. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7MuLjWzh0j0.html
Hi @ladataviz. Thank you so much for your tool. Awesome work. Quick question, I created a nice shape network in your tool, but when I opened the twbx file in Tableau, it looks completely different with nodes moving around and does not look like a network anymore although they are still connected. Do you know why?
@@ladataviz Thanks @ladataviz. I fixed the issue. Now I am trying to add color to nodes in Tableau Desktop, but somehow the links between nodes are blurred. I also did not see how to configure links in Tableau marks. Only nodes in the menu. Can I please have your email? Thanks a lot.
Merci! Merci! Merciiii!!!!!!! Thank you so much for creating this, from the bottom of my undergrad researcher heart! 💖 I took on an super-ambitious project and needed a way to quickly visualize online interactions to (dis)prove my hypothesis... and I had less than a week to complete my analysis and write the paper after I finished coding... then I realized that network graphs were not a built-in option in Tableau 😮 @ladatavis your tools saved the day and totally disrupted my initial researcher bias... leading me to way more interesting findings. 🎉 I'm in social sciences and have no data science or CS background, so the fact that I could use your tool to gain insight into my data and move my research forward is a huge testament to the work you put into it. Thank you again for sharing it ❤
This is awesome. I tried it and it worked. However, I attempted adding 1 more layer of notes and links and I get a node not found error. After I added the new nodes, I just repeated the process for the links again and had my new nodes link just to the second level. Is that how you do it, or is there an extra step when adding a third layer?
Sweet! I am exited to try this out. (I've got like, 5 'scorecard' requests in my queue--and I HATE how many different calculations are involved--even using a template I've already created, it still takes forever. I think this is going to have me finished in MINUTES. 😉) Thank you.
So happy to hear that, Michelle! If you have any issue, don't hesitate to reach out. It's still a new product and I'm happy to solve bugs or develop new useful features!
@@ladataviz oh my gosh. THIS WAS FANTASTIC! Thank you so much! I completed, in ONE DAY, what I had budgeted FOUR days for. 👍 I will need to create a few using a fiscal year (July start month)--is there anything special I should do? Again, thanks so much for creating this!
Hey Michelle! Thanks for the nice comment! I'm glad that it helped you. As for the fiscal year, it's a request that I get more and more, so I'll work on something that allows that. Is it correct that the 1st of July 2023 is the first month of your fiscal year 2023-2024? I'd be happy to discuss it more if you'd like to reach out by email!
Hello, it's amazing that there is a way to make a network graph into a tableau. To some extent, it was surprising that the results were produced. Thank you. But there are also some difficulties. First of all, my json file didn't show all the network graphs on the screen maybe because there was too much data. And it was sad because when I downloaded it from the tableau desktop, it sometimes came out differently from the network screen of the tool you made. I think it's my lack of skills. Anyway, I'd appreciate it if you could give me a response
So when we download the data, how then we are going to see changes in diagram when data are changed on daily level? We should do the process all over again manually on daily level?
Hi Steven, Currently there's no way to update the viz from Tableau. You'll need to regenerate to see the changes. That is why the tool is free and useful mostly for Tableau Public visualization or journalist.
For those that aren't able to copy the data from Tableau, I was able to work around this by saving the workbook to Tableau Public. Make sure to make your column with the custom calculated field wide enough. Then from Tableau Public, I showed all sheets and then downloaded the sheets I needed as PDFs. I was able to select the data in the column (one page at a time) and copy from the PDF!
Hi, I have 2 measures and for those measures I have 2 running total now I want to represent all 4 in one graph and x -axis is Dates...2 bar and running total as line...can you show how to do it Thank you
can you show us how to do it directly in tableau? this way the file could be uploaded to tableau cloud and be refreshed automatically. Also Is there a way to include more categories? for example i have 4 different columns each representing articles in a shopping bag, and i want to see the relationship between them, can I just add more sources for each column and more links? Thanks!
You can't do it directly in Tableau, that's why I built those tools. They are not perfect but it's the best solution. If you need a network with data refreshed automatically I'd recommend not using Tableau. You can have as many types of nodes as you want. The only important thing with a network is to have list of nodes, and a list of links explaining the relation. Your node can have different categories.
There is no best way to create links. It'll depend on your data. The only rule is that all your source and target in the links must be nodes. Take it slowly, maybe don't try to generate a big and complex network right away but focus on understanding how the JSON structure works. I created another tool to simplify creating the JSON from a Excel / CSV file. www.ladataviz.com/tools/jsonify
The following examples helped me better understand the video (and the BANg tool). I thought I'd share it with others who might find it helpful: Last Year Month-to-Date example: If the current date is August 9, 2023, "Last Year Month-to-Date" would refer to the period from August 1 to August 9 in the year 2022. Previous Month-to-Date example: if the current date is August 9, 2023, "Previous Month-to-Date" would refer to the period from July 1 to July 9 in the same year.
