1. Customer activity in motion
The goals of this screencast are to talk about the pages shelf, to emphasize modifying and
updating tooltip, and to see a way to bring in date and time stamps that's a little less common.
Putting data in motion in your visualization can be really powerful to see the activity and trends
that are hiding there.
We first need double-click on the longitude and latitude dimensions to add them to the sheet so we can
pinpoint specific places on the map. Tableau knows what it needs to do, we don't even need to
worry about which shelve to put them on.
Then we drag the count of trips on the color and size tiles. We're going to make the background dark
for emphasis.
For emphasis as well we can update the color palette to something more dramatic like the red to
gold palette.
We could also use a density type, to turn our viz in a geographical heat map.
We could change the opacity too, by using the cursor here. If you use a density map, you have
a few options, like intensity. OK, we're just gonna go back to the way it was before.
Let's also increase the size of the dots to about 33%.
Then let's add From Station Name to the tooltips. We will spend more time on tooltips and see how we can customize them further later in this chapter.
For now, it's time to put the data in motion: we add Start Time to the Filter shelf,
select Month/Year,
Select All and add.
Then we can copy it to the Pages shelf by pressing control and dragging the filter there.
And that's how we get the control device here on the right allowing us to visualize activity over time.
The hamburger stacks determine the speed,
and the arrows here let you put the data in motion. The one of the right shows the data chronologically,
And the one on the left shows it in reverse order.
And the button in the middle lets you pause it.
Let's now take a few seconds to see how you can navigate around the map. When you hover over the map, options show up in the top left. The search bar lets you search for locations, for example we could go straight to Paris, but we're not going to use it in this course as we're focused exclusively on Chicago.
You can zoom in
and zoom out,
zoom on a specific area,
Navigate around the map,
Use rectangular selection,
Radial selection which is pretty cool,
And lasso selection for something more custom,
And you can just go back to the default view by clicking here.
OK, your turn to have fun!
2. Let's practice!