Tableau Data Visualization
Creating A Tableau Word Cloud From Text Message data
Data visualization is considered visual communication in todays modern world. It is viewed as a branch of descriptive statistics by some people. Basically it is the visual representation of data. I would say it is both a science and an art.
Tableau Desktop is a software for data visualization. It’s basically a tool created from the Tableau Software company headquartered in Seattle, Washington that allows for easy to create charts and graphs.
I will be using Tableau Desktop to create a fun data visualization from my text message data to see what words show up the most in my conversations. First I will need to get my text messages from my phone. Then I will need to copy the data into a text file. After that I will need a program that takes in the text file and counts the words and the frequency of each word. Next I will need to put this data into a table (this is my cleaned data). Then I will upload that document to tableau to analyze the data and create a word cloud. Finally I will communicate the results.
- Step 1: Frame the problem. The first thing you have to do before you solve a problem is to define exactly what it is.
- Step 2: Collect the raw data needed for your problem.
- Step 3: Process the data for analysis.
