Leading up to several talks I'll be giving in April, I'm going to do a series of mini posts highlighting the process behind the quantified self workflows that I use. These will typically include Tableau and Alteryx so think of this as a how to guide geared towards these tools or more a workflow to replicate in your tool of choice. This week its Rescue Time.
ReadIn this quick video, I summarise how to create a step line chart in Tableau.
ReadI really pushed hard on the design with this effort. That said the idea / look wasn't original. I struggled finding an angle so I took to my viz library and settled on a design by Nicholas Felton. Whilst the data he used was different, the visual communication style suited the data and I also saw a challenge in trying to recreate that style in Tableau.
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