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Creating a rotating 3d cube in Tableau

Creating a rotating 3d cube in Tableau

After all the fun I’ve been having recently with coordinates and polygons, I decided to see if I could take the next step – into the 3rd dimension! (queue dramatic music and crappy 3d glasses). No, I don’t currently see any practical use, but it sounds like fun! In principle, all that we are doing is mapping a 3d object to the 2d x and y coordinates that Tableau handles so well. To keep things as simple as possible, I’m…

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My First Radial Diagram

My First Radial Diagram

After the recent Workout Wednesday polygon exercises, which relied on calculating x and y coordinates, I decided to try my first radial diagram. Can’t be that difficult, right? Actually, it was pretty easy! It just needed a bit of clear thinking about the calculations. Before I get into how it was built, you can see it on Tableau Public and below: Back to school – Trigonometry Full disclosure: I LOVED this stuff at school! And still do. I created the…

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