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An interesting tweet came across my Twitter-stream the other day, showing a hexbin scatterplot chart type for Power BI: Having just presented a session at TC17 on working with dense data where Sarah Battersby and I covered (among other things) … Continue reading →

Some time ago I wrote a post about how to create hexagonal heat maps. Central to the technique is the need for a “path” field to plot the 6 vertices around the polygon marks. As this is a synthetic value it won’t exist in … Continue reading →

[This blog post is a result of working with Sarah Battersby (Spatial Overlord and all-around Crazy Map Lady) from our Seattle office. We worked together for a TC15 presentation “Go Deep: Interpreting Dense Data with Tableau” where she presented the … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

I meant to have an early night tonight but after reading Kristopher Erickson’s wonderful blog Native Hexbin support in Tableau 9 my head was filled with thoughts of hex! As Kristopher writes, there are now two new formulae in Tableau … Continue reading →