Using Tableau to Animate Great Circle Flight Paths
I built upon an approach published by James Dunkerley to animate flight paths using a great circle approach. I’m going to use this method to introduce nice visualizations at my workplace.
I built upon an approach published by James Dunkerley to animate flight paths using a great circle approach. I’m going to use this method to introduce nice visualizations at my workplace.
Before going further, I will reintroduce myself. My name is Chas Latch. A little over two months ago I graduated from Baylor University (sic ’em bears) with a degree in Computer Science.
Introduction I have determined that I will not become a video blogger (I feel like a big dork on camera!). However, I awoke today with a thought that must be completed. I feel compelled to continue this story by doing what the great Paul Harvey used to do. He would say something to the effect…
Introduction Chas and Ken (Figure 1) learned about Alteryx and Tableau on Saturday. We decided to create a video blog of the experience. This article includes a series of videos that take you along the journey of discovery. We decided to process global travel data to show how a complex situation can be turned into…
This article demonstrates how to implement custom geocoding for Airport IATA codes in Tableau.