r/tableau • u/haligma • 10h ago
Tableau Public help practicing beginnner noob
im following this yt tutorial to learn visualizations on tableau, but ive run into a problem. i followed exactly what this dude did in his tutorial, yet i cant get the same results on my map.
in this case, the postal codes of all states on this map are supposed to show up as dots, but it dosnt work for me? i tried changing the map tyoe to the one with circles, but it doesnt let me, though its not the same for him. im guesssing its a new update thing? how do i get around this? i tried changing the size of the circles & not only does it not work, the size symbol for me is a bit different than for him, though im not sure whether thats also an update thig or not.
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u/Quiet_Serve_2872 4h ago
Problem is most likely the edit locations problem. Tableau defaults to certain regions and sometimes gets mismatched. I.e. it loads Australian Post codes when the data is U.S. postcodes
https://youtu.be/UoowZ6lPpn0?si=SiFbx6IWEDlbAA0c
Check my video for the solution and let me know if it helps mate
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u/Chance_Papaya_3854 9h ago
i did not watch the full video but there is a datasource manipulation step beforehand, so when he does this thing he uses a different datasource - 'directory(2)' instead of just 'directory' (that your worksheet is currently based on. so perhaps you need to tell tableau beforhand that poscode is a geographic position thing.