By Steve Wexler, January 15, 2017 Overview Before going any further this post assumes you’ve gotten your data “just so”; that is, you’ve reshaped your data and have the responses in both text and numeric form. If you’re not sure what this means, please review this post. Taking inventory by finding the universe of all questions [...]
Note: Major thanks to Nazirah Garrison and Christie Clark at Tableau for suggesting this approach. Overview With Tableau 10.x it is in fact possible to get your survey data, “just so” without having to invest in new tools and / or a engage in a time-consuming, error-prone procedure every time you need receive updated survey [...]
Updated on September 11, 2018. Note: Special thanks to Joe Mako who suggested this approach. Overview I’m fortunate that when I work with survey data that is not well-coded I can take out my trusty copy of Tableau Prep, EasyMoprh, or Alteryx Designer and get my data “just so.” But what if you don’t have [...]
Overview As I’m mentioned before the number one impediment to success with visualizing survey data in Tableau is getting the data in the right format so you can do all the dazzling things you want to do. Up until very recently none of the survey tools vendors had done anything to make things easy so [...]
Overview I received an e-mail inquiry about weighted data recently and realized that while I cover this in my survey data class I had not yet posted anything about it here. Time to remedy that. The good news is that it is not at all difficult to work with weighted survey data in Tableau. And [...]
Overview You can download a trial version of Alteryx here. You can find the Excel source data here. You can download the completed Alteryx module from here. Understanding the workflow Here’s the Alteryx workflow that will get the data in the format we want. Figure 9 -- Alteryx workflow for getting the survey data [...]
Overview In writing about visualizing survey data using Tableau I’ve found that the number one impediment to success is getting the data in the right format. In accompanying posts I'll explain how to get this done using Tableau Prep, Alteryx, Easymorph, and Tableau 10.x. What do I mean by “just so”? When I deal with survey data [...]
Overview Tableau 9.0 includes a built-in data prepping tool that makes reshaping survey data so it plays nicely with Tableau a much smoother experience than using the Tableau Excel add-in. While this new feature won’t replace by trusty copy of Alteryx (for reasons that I explain later in this post) there are many occasions where [...]
