I’m a Hex Machine…

Posted on March 7, 2015 by Alan Eldridge

My last post showed how to create hexagonal polygons that fit around the points created using the new HEXBINX() and HEXBINY() functions in Tableau 9. This post is to show how you might use this technique to create an interactive heatmap dashboard that allows you to drill in from a high level to increasing detail.

(Click the image to view the interactive version on Tableau Public.)

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Enjoy!

About Alan Eldridge

Hi. I'm Alan. By day I manage the APAC sales engineering team for Snowflake Computing. By night, I'm a caped crusader. Or sleeping. Most often it's sleeping.
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