GoalCreate an interactive dashboard to explore facilities' toxic releases and greenhouse gas emissions across the U.S.SummaryWe’ll use EPA and EIA datasets to study trends in facilityGHG emissions, toxic releases, and power plant output throughout the U.S. We’llincorporate Tableau GIS mapping & analysis to generate an interactivedashboard. Participants will be trained on basic Tableau functionalityincluding dimensions / measures, graph types (1-D through 4-D), basic mapping,filters, and creating groups. Then, users will be trained on advancedfunctionality including merging data sources, creating calculated measures,trend lines, quick calculations, and dashboards. What is Tableau?Tableau is a data visualization and analytics platform used by thousands of companies to understand their data. Tableau offers an intuitive, drag-and-drop user interface to build interactive graphs in order to quickly generate insights. Additional ResourcesTableau'sGetting Started Guide Tableau'sStarter Kit - tutorials and guide for beginners Tableau'sstudent resources page - Download the software and receive a free student license here Tableau runs better when data is in a long data format, as opposed to wide data format. The data used in this tutorial is already good to go, but if you're working with your own data you should read up on these articles. (And, probably learn R's Reshape2 package.) Tableau's guide to cleaning Excel data Example of data that's too wide Example of data that's too long R Help file on reshape2, explains long vs wide data formats THE academic article from the maker of the reshape2 package: how to tidy your data |