1. Visualizing Stats Canada Data
Welcome to the Visualizing Stats Canada Data using Tableau workshop!
My name is Lucia Costanzo and I assist students, staff and faculty at the University of Guelph with analyzing data for over 15 years.
As a part of data analysis, data visualizations are used to communicate results and observations clearly and efficiently. This is done through the use of charts and graphs.
Through my consultations, researchers almost always visualize their data using bar charts, pie charts, maps and other types of plots and charts.
These researchers find it easier for audiences to process and interpret large amounts of data through the use of these visualization than over spreadsheets or reports.
Data visualizations are a quick, easy way to convey concepts
They also allow for tweaks here and there to test out a few different scenarios.
Lucia Costanzo
MA, MSc, MLIS

2. Vizs have been around for a long time!
Data visualizations have been around for a long time.
In 1860, Charles Minard created a cartographic visualization of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812.
This illustration depicts Napoleon’s army departing the Polish-Russian border.
The thick band shows the size of his army at specific geographic points during their advance and retreat.
This visualization has two dimensions
Six types of data which include:
Number of Napoleon’s troops
Distance traveled
Temperature
Latitude and longitude
Direction travel
Location relative to specific dates
Lopez, Inigo. (May 3rd, 2015) Modern redrawing of Napoleon 1812 Russian campaign including a table of degrees in Celsius and Fahrenheit and translated to English. Retrieved from

3. Goal for today
To take this:

4. Goal for today
… and make these:

5. Goals for today Getting Comfortable with Tableau
Download Stats Canada Dataset
Clean data in MS Excel
Open data in Tableau
Generate Vizs in Tableau

6. What’s the difference between various Tableau products?
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Server
Tableau Online
Tableau Public (free)
Tableau Reader (free)
When you visit the Tableau site, you will be presented with various products.
Tableau Desktop
Cost to use
All the development is done here
Can create reports, charts, formatting them, putting them together as a dashboard.
All the work is done in Tableau Desktop
Tableau Server
The dashboards you create are shared with other users using Tableau Server
When a dashboard is uploaded to Tableau Server from Tableau Desktop, other users can access those Dashboards by logging on Tableau Server.
Software is installed on company hardware, inside or outside of company
Tableau Online
Similar function to Tableau Server but, hardware and Server maintained by Tableau outside of the company firewall
Tableau Public
Free to use
It allows anyone to publish interactive data visualizations to the web.
Visualizations published to Tableau Public can be embedded into:
webpages and blogs
shared through social media or
made available for download to other users
It is used by Visualization Enthusiasts including students, professors, journalist, hobbyist
Caveat: Only use analyze public data (data which can be viewed without restrictions) in Tableau Public.
That is Tableau Public is not secure and anyone can access the data and download it.
If your data has access restrictions (data which can only be viewed by certain individuals) you will need to go with Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server or Tableau Online
Tableau Reader
Allows you to open and interact with visualizations built in Tableau Desktop.
Cannot create visualizations in Tableau Reader (similar to Acrobat Reader can view pdfs but not make changes)

7. What is available for Academia?
Students
Free 1-year license of Tableau Desktop
Must be full-time student
Instructors
Free 1-year license
Can request licenses for computer lab or course
Administration
14 day trial license then must purchase
Students
Must be full-time student attending an accredited school
When filling online request form best to use must use school
The license is good for 1-year
Instructors
Staff at an academic
Lab licenses may be used for education use in computers labs which only students, teaching faculty and academic researchers have access.

8. Tips for prepping data Remove intro text and footers
Remove pre-aggregate data
Remove blank rows and columns
Normalize data
Remove introductory text and footers
Tableau expects only the first row in your Excel data to contain column headers
Remove pre-aggregate data
Data can often com pre-aggregated. That is, data can contain sums, averages, medians
Common example of pre-aggregated data comes in the form of subtotals and grand totals
Remove blank rows, columns
Make sure that there are no blank rows in your data
Add missing headers
Make sure there are no missing column headers
Pivot data in crosstab format
Converting the data from wide to long format. Where long format is presented with one column containing all the values and column listing the context of the values and wide format contains each different data variable in a separate column.

9. Demo
2011 Census - Population and Dwelling Count Highlight Tables

10. Demo
Class Exercise Form into groups and work together to generate another visualization share with the group. Back at <insert> pm

11. Tips for Creating Maps in Tableau
Preparing Your Geographic Fields
Creating Filled Maps
How to create density maps using hexbins in Tableau
How To: Hex Tile Maps in Tableau

12. Tools for Formatting Data
Built-in Pivot Feature in Tableau
Quick Start: Pivot Data from Columns to Rows
Add-in for Microsoft Excel by Tableau
Installing and Troubleshooting the Tableau Add-in for Reshaping Data in Excel
Qualtrics Web Data Connector
Qualtrics and Tableau Integration
Built-in Pivot Feature in Tableau
It is a built in pivoting tool that converts data with a lot of columns into data that has fewer columns and many rows. That is, it normalizes the data.
Downside is that it only works with Excel and CSV files. As well, it is best to use with datasets with not too many questions.
Add-in for Microsoft Excel by Tableau
This free tool is another way to normalize the data. Again it can only be used with Excel and CSV files. Also, it is not available for the MAC.
Qualtrics Web Data Connector
It allows you connect directly to Qualtrics survey using Tableau. I haven’t really used so I can’t comment on the performance.

13. Demo
GSS Cycle 27, 2013
Social Identity & Giving, Volunteering and Participating

14. Jitter Plots
Wexler, Steven. Salary Comparison Dashboard. Retrieved from

15. Open Source Viz Software Alternatives
Non Programmers
Raw
Gephi
Weka
Programmers
D3.JS

16. Help Resources Tableau Online Resources Tableau Libguides
Online Training Videos, Forums, Live Online Training, Roadshows
Tableau Libguides
Duke
Online Courses
Data Visualization and Communication with Tableau

17. Please fill in survey.
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