For a more up to date and simpler approach see a later post using NUTS geographic role. Both grouping filled map areas and dual axis maps are very worthwhile techniques so I feel this tutorial is still useful.
In this post I'll guide you through making the maps used in the visualisation of UK MEPs I published last time.
For our raw data we turn to wikipedia's Regions of England. Following the link for each region we go to the 'Local government' part, where we copy the table into Excel.
Tableau knows the 'County/Unitary' field, once you clean it up a bit and give it county as the geographic role. This is with the exception of the starred fields above (e.g. Greater Manchester and Merseyside) where tableau knows the metropolitan boroughs, not the metropolitan country, so you have to break it to separate rows for each borough. In tableau you then will get the map below:
Group the unitary authorities/counties/boroughs to regions, and use that in place of the county in level of detail. This gives us the maps of England, but what about Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?
You could go and find all the counties etc. there, but there is a much simpler way. Add Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland rows with the names in the same field as the names of english counties. Then duplicate the field in Tableau and this time change geographic role to State/Province. Then drag Longitude (generated) next to the already existing Longitude (generated) for columns, and change the level of detail of the map to this State/Province field. You should get two maps next to each other:
Now all you need to do is click on the Longitude and select dual axis and voila! a map with the UK regions. Don't worry too much about the 121 unknown, it should be all the counties/authorities/boroughs that didn't match 'England' and are not shown on the map on the left, plus the 3 States/Provinces that didn't match a county name and are not shown on the map to the right. As long as you have no gaps in the dual axis map you should be fine.
The dual axis does cause a number of weird behaviours. E.g. right click on the sheet, select 'Duplicate as Crosstab' and you get two new sheets, one crosstab for each map. So for some applications you might want to avoid dual axis, and list all the counties of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland instead.
In this post I'll guide you through making the maps used in the visualisation of UK MEPs I published last time.
For our raw data we turn to wikipedia's Regions of England. Following the link for each region we go to the 'Local government' part, where we copy the table into Excel.
You could go and find all the counties etc. there, but there is a much simpler way. Add Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland rows with the names in the same field as the names of english counties. Then duplicate the field in Tableau and this time change geographic role to State/Province. Then drag Longitude (generated) next to the already existing Longitude (generated) for columns, and change the level of detail of the map to this State/Province field. You should get two maps next to each other:
The dual axis does cause a number of weird behaviours. E.g. right click on the sheet, select 'Duplicate as Crosstab' and you get two new sheets, one crosstab for each map. So for some applications you might want to avoid dual axis, and list all the counties of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland instead.
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