Overview I’ve written almost ten years’ worth of blog posts on visualizing survey data using Tableau (see https://www.datarevelations.com/visualizing-survey-data/). The good news is that dozens of how-to articles that are currently on my website are relevant and the techniques work. That said, Tableau made a HUGE change in how you can model data with the release [...]
September 30, 2020 Overview Tableau introduced Set Controls in 2020.2. Set Controls look like checkbox filters but instead of adding and removing data from a view they determine which elements are in a set and which are not. This feature can be very useful in visualizing survey data. But why not just use filters? [...]
Overview A number of people have asked me how to use Tableau to visualize survey data that was captured using Google Forms. I decided to try this for myself and built a pre-course survey where I asked folks that were going to attend one of my classes about their experience with survey tools and [...]
September 12, 2018 Overview I’ve recently seen some questionable approaches to visualizing check-all-that-apply questions (CATA questions) in Tableau. I’m concerned because many of these approaches won’t work if either you filter the data to only show some options, or if some of your survey participants skip the CATA questions. It’s the latter reason that [...]
May 2, 2018 Note: A sincere “thank you” to Arthur Gyldenege from Tableau who walked me through how to apply the technique described below. Don’t have Tableau Prep? You can download it here. Want the packaged Tableau Prep Flow explored in this post? Click here to download it. Overview As I’ve written previously, if [...]
May 2, 2018 Don’t have Tableau Prep? You can download it here. Want the packaged Tableau Prep Flow explored in this post? Click here to download it. Overview As anyone who has read anything on my blog that relates to survey data knows, the number one impediment to success with Tableau is getting your [...]
February 20, 2018 Introduction So, we are a few weeks away from Gartner publishing its “Magic Quadrant” for business intelligence tools. This annual report irks me for two reasons: Wall Street analysts pay more attention to the report than I think is warranted; and, Practically every vendor finds something to crow about in a [...]
January 3, 2018 Note: I first wrote about this five years ago and while the approaches I suggested then do in fact work, the advent of Level of Detail (LoD) expressions in Tableau gives us a much better way to get the job done. A very big “thank you” to my friend and colleague [...]
September 20, 2017 Overview As anyone who has read anything on my blog that relates to survey data knows, the number one impediment to success with Tableau is getting your data “just so.” Until recently I recommended two different approaches. You can either use Alteryx and have a rock solid, robust, fully-featured, (and expensive) solution [...]
Why you may be missing important insights if you only look at Percent Top 2 Boxes. August 23, 2017 Overview Anyone who has looked to this blog for insights into visualizing survey data knows that my “go to” visualization for Likert scale sentiment data is a divergent stacked bar chart (Figure 1). Figure 1 [...]
