Get Your Brasil On

Two years ago I wrote two posts about Brazilian geocoding and mapping here and here. Since that time, the Brazilian government website IBGE.gov.br seems to have removed their city level shapefiles, or at least, I cannot find them. LUCKILY, I kept a copy of the polygon data set that I created.

Shown below is the entire country. Click a state to drill down. There are no metrics in this data set. The assumption here is that you will use data blending for your analysis. I also make no warrants or guarantees about the accuracy of the polygon data or about how up to date the boundaries are.

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Tableau Menu Navigation using Parameters

I didn't see a good example of using Tableau "Parameters" to create navigation systems. I could have sworn there were some good ones out there; so if you have any, post them in the comments section.

The basic trick is to

• place number of records and a parameter onto a sheet called "navigator".
• On various dashboards, create a Tableau Action, source is this navigator sheet, target is the destination dashboard, filters are set to "leave filter", fields are set to "all", and the action is of type "menu".
• You will need to create lots and lots of these. Each menu to each dashboard from each source...

Download the workbook shown below if you want to reverse engineer it

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Tableau Measurement Conversions

There are lots and lots of measurement converter utilities out there - in javascript, perl, html, asp, java, whatever - but I haven't seen one in Tableau yet!

So here you go :) ...enjoy!

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