Overview I was stuck earlier this month trying to cajole Tableau into doing something I needed it to do so I contacted my friend Joe Mako. When it comes to Tableau, Joe is the "guru's guru." (Joe was the person that showed me how to create filled maps in Tableau before Tableau had native support [...]
Note: While the information in this blog is useful, I've discovered some better ways to perform intra-question analysis; I just haven't blogged about them yet. Feel free to nag me. January 3, 2018 update. I've written a two-part post that explores better ways to conduct intra-question analysis. Please see this post. Overview So, I thought I [...]
Note: This post is very dated. Please see the YouTube video from the Tableau 2014 conference and the Visualizing Survey Data page for more up-to-date information. Overview In my previous blog post I discussed how to reshape your survey data so that it plays nicely with Tableau. In this post we’ll explore how to visualize [...]
Note: This blog post is rather dated. While it does stress the importance of reshaping the data it only shows how to do this using the Tableau add-in for Excel and doesn't discuss the optimal format for survey data. The post also doesn't address how to combine survey results downloaded in a numeric format with survey [...]
Overview I received a number of comments from my last post (see https://www.datarevelations.com/likert-scale-nirvana.html) including what I think is a better approach for staggered Likert scale visualizations from Joe Mako. Joe’s approach with various “kitchen sink” added functionality is shown in the interactive dashboard below. Notice that you can control whether neutral values are displayed, sorting, [...]
Overview I’ve written a lot about this subject (see https://www.datarevelations.com/the-likert-question-question.html and https://www.datarevelations.com/a-little-more-on-likert-scale-questions.html) but some recent discussions with friends / colleagues Joe Mako and Naomi Robbins (along with some long plane rides to and from the Midwest) encouraged me to see how difficult it would be to create a “staggered” Likert scale chart like the one [...]
