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Traffic Collisions Project: Tableau Mini-Workshop

In case you missed it, here is the video from the Tableau workshop!

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This is our first ad hoc, mini workshop for the members of the project teams. This informal workshop will cover plotting traffic collision data in Tableau Public. Other Data Circles folks are welcome too.

Main Workshop Concepts:
- Linking a data source – changing datatypes, hiding columns
- Plotting collision data on a map
- Creating calculated variables
- Applying filters
- Creating a set and then filtering based on the set
- Changing map options & map layers
- Formatting the tooltip
- Combining the map and a plot in a dashboard

Before the Workshop
- Download Tableau Public: https://public.tableau.com (or make sure you have the latest version)
- Download the collision data & the Seattle Street shapefile from the projects_circle repository: https://github.com/DataCircles/projects_circle/tree/master/traffic_collisions_project/workshop_materials/data

Example visualizations of traffic data:
https://public.tableau.com/profile/erin.orbits#!/vizhome/seattle_traffic_collision_density/density_dashboard
https://public.tableau.com/profile/erin.orbits#!/vizhome/Seattle_Traffic_Collisions_01/Dashboard1

For up to the minute info about this event, please RSVP on our Meetup page.



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