Seattle Tableau User Group - Iron Viz w Tips & Tricks - Jacob Olsufka & Russell Spangler Feb. 2018

1. Jacob Olsufka
Sr. Visual Analytics Consultant
@ Decisive Data
@j_olsufka
Tableau Public

2. TABLEAU PUBLIC

3. MY FIRST TABLEAU VIZ

4. Russell Spangler
Sr. Business Intelligence Manager
@ Amazon (Amazon Campus & Pickup)
@russellspangler
http://public.tableau.com/profile/russell.spangler

5. TABLEAU PUBLIC

6. MY FIRST PUBLIC VIZ

7. Win an entry feeder contest (3 throughout the year)
Keynote event at Tableau conference
20 Minutes of development time
3-5 Minutes to present visualization
Winner is awarded the title
Iron Viz Champion
IRON VIZ
"Iron Viz is the ultimate battle of Tableau skills.”
- Jewel Loree

8. BACON VIZ
August 2013
Social Media Feed Contest
• Icon Menu
• Population chart using shapes
• Dividers using empty text boxes
• IFTTT to gather data

9. COMPETITIVE EATING
March 2014
Sports Contest
• Icon menu
• Unit charts
• Small multiples
• Custom built dataset
• Hover over icons
• Click action arrow display

10. #SPANGLERLIFE
May 2014
Quantified Self
• Icon menu
• Custom dataset
• Custom grid
(single worksheet)
• Calendar filter

11. HDI
March 2015
Wiki Data
• Paging
• Created custom grid
(one worksheet)
• Small multiples
• Icons
• Custom bar graphs

12. TIGERS
June 2017
Animal Data
• Polygon art
• Widescreen
• Icons
• Dual axis map
(with no
common join)
• Transparent
Circle
• Typography
• Basic chart types
(147 objects)
How to guide: https://www.slideshare.net/RussellSpangler/london-tableau-user-group-november-2017-presentation-how-to-build-tableau-tiger-sushi-viz

13. SUSHI VIZ
April 2016
Food Data
• Polygon art
• Interactive voting
system
• Creative visuals
• Custom graphics
• Custom dataset
How to guide: https://www.slideshare.net/RussellSpangler/seatug-presentation-viz-amp-share-seattle-tableau-user-group

14. IRON VIZ
Thanks @skybjohnson for the pictures!Sous Vizzer – Roger Hau

15. TAXI DATA!

16. TAXI DATA!
• Pickup and dropoff time
• Pickup and dropoff latitude & longitude
• Fare and tip amount
• Payment type
• Tax
• Passenger quantity
• Trip distance
• Toll amount

17. TAXI DATA!

18. TAXI DATA!
• Clean dashboard
• Taxi ‘exchange rate’
• Took 2-3 days to build
• Viz could access all 150
million records
Night before event I practiced
rebuilding
• First rebuild 1.5 hours
• Final rebuild 22 minutes
https://public.tableau.com/profile/ross#!/vizhome/RussellSpangler-DailyTaxiDataAnalyzer2000/Dashboard1

19. POLITICAL
MOBILE DESIGN
2016
Feeder Entries

20. SAFARI
SILVER SCREEN
SHAPEFILES
2017
Feeder Entries

21. ELECTION
June 2016
Political Data
• Hex Map
• Custom Images
• Shift Chart
http://sirvizalot.blogspot.com/2015/11/hex-tile-maps-in-tableau.html
https://vizpainter.com/hex-map-spatial-file/
http://www.datatableauandme.com/2017/12/polygon-hex-map-in-tableau.html

22. • Design and feel of a mobile app
• Custom images & icons
• Simple, mobile design
MOBILE FIRSTMOBILE DESIGN

23. PITCHf/x heatmap
September 2016
Mobile Design
• Hexbin heatmap

24. MOBILE FIRSTHOT/COLD ZONES
September 2016
Mobile Design
• Custom polygons

25. MOBILE FIRSTHOME RUN TRACKER
September 2016
Mobile Design
• URL action
• Custom background
• Live updating data

26. HAWAIIAN RAINFALL
March 2017
Shapefiles
• Natively connect to a shapefile
• Rich color palette

27. BRAINS
June 2017
Safari Data
• Small Multiples
• Poster Style Infographic
• Design + Tableau

28. BRAINS
June 2017
Safari Data

29. STAR WARS
August 2017
Silver Screen
• Background images
& custom donut
• Small multiples
• Annotations

30. IRON VIZ

31. IRON VIZ PREP

35. TIPS AND TRICKS