Tableau: Polygon maps

In using polygon maps you need to add the polygon ID and grouping ID to details and the sequenced point ID to path in order to display your own custom group map. When you want to overlay a second axes with another dimension like below example (department pie charts), you need to make sure that that dimension is also available in your polygon data source. Simply blending polygon and sales data will not work, you need to join the data sources before extracting.

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Femke Kooij is a dashboard and report designer, developer and educator specializing in SAP | BusinessObjects Dashboards (better known as Xcelsius) and Crystal Reports. She has also a lot of experience with other SAP | BusinessObjects toolings like, Web Intelligence (WebI), Information Design Tool (Universe Designer), BusinessObjects Data Services (BODS) and the overall server platform BusinessObjects Enterprise (Launchpad, CMC). She spends a lot of her time thinking about and sharing her knowledge of Xcelsius to others through her own blog. Lately she is exploring other visualization tools like Qlikview and Tableau. On the later she is also posting some experiences. Currently she is in the employment of Cognizant Technology Solutions. Her blog only contains her personal views, thoughts and opinions. It is not endorsed by Cognizant Technology Solutions nor does it constitute any official communication of Cognizant Technology Solutions.

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One Comment to Tableau: Polygon maps

  1. Mambi says:

    Hello,
    can you help me please to resolve this issue : http://community.tableau.com/thread/158506
    i tried to do as you describe in your post but it’s doesn’t work for me !

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