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Joshua N. Milligan
Joshua N. Milligan
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Joshua N. Milligan is a Hall of Fame Tableau Zen Master and 2017 Iron Viz Global finalist. His passion is training, mentoring, and helping people gain insights and make decisions based on their data through data visualization using Tableau and data cleaning and structuring using Tableau Prep. He is a principal consultant at Teknion Data Solutions, where he has served clients in numerous industries since 2004.
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Visualizing multiple axes to compare different measures


Often, you'll need to use more than one axis to compare different measures, understand correlation, or analyze the same measure at different levels of detail. In these cases, you'll use visualizations with more than one axis.

Scatterplots

A scatterplot is an essential visualization type to understand the relationship between two measures. Consider a scatterplot when you find yourself asking questions like these:

  • Does how much I spend on marketing really make a difference to sales?

  • How much does power consumption go up with each degree of heating/cooling?

  • Is there any correlation between rental price and the length of contract?

Each of these questions seeks to understand the correlation (if any) between two measures. Scatterplots are great to see these relationships and also to locate outliers.

Consider the following scatterplot, which looks at the relationship between the measures of the sum of Sales (on the x axis) and the sum of Profit ...

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Joshua N. Milligan is a Hall of Fame Tableau Zen Master and 2017 Iron Viz Global finalist. His passion is training, mentoring, and helping people gain insights and make decisions based on their data through data visualization using Tableau and data cleaning and structuring using Tableau Prep. He is a principal consultant at Teknion Data Solutions, where he has served clients in numerous industries since 2004.
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