Become a Geographic Viz WizHow to Prep Mapping Data for Tableau

S P A T I A L D A T A I S E V E R Y W H E R E

The Scale of Spatial Complexity

Spreadsheet

Databases

Simple Complex

Bathymetric Data

Satellite Imagery

Surface Model

BIM ModelsLiDAR Points

CAD Floorplans

Sensors

Simple GIS Data

City Models

Underground Asset MappingWeb

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D E M O

A T H E N A I N T E L L I G E N C EIntroducing,

A T H E N A I N T E L L I G E N C E

● Business Intelligence + Food Supply

● Mission: Maximize customers’ food supply chain with the least risk, and the best use of resources.

● Customers include some of the world’s largest food companies.

Who is

P R O B L E M : M A N Y F I L E F O R M A T S

Esri ArcGIS(.shp)

Google Earth(.kml)

GeoTIFF(.tif)

Comma-delimited(.csv)

Excel(.xls)

100s more ...

Landsat / aerial imagery over

time

Spreadsheet data, with and without

coordinates

GIS boundaries over time, many layers

GIS points

P R O B L E M : M A N Y D A T A T Y P E S

S T E P 1 :DATA PREPARATION

L I V E D E M O :Data Preparation

✓ Create custom polygons

✓ Validate the data

✓ Blend multiple datasets

✓ Filter based on layers

✓ More ...

T H E M A G I C W O R K F L O W

S T E P 2:T A B L E A U

LIVE DEMO “Overview” Visualization

T A B L E A U

● Interactive view

● See variables like crop quality, and water availability in a way that is easily understood

● Enables decision-making, e.g. identify top producers to secure, mitigate inventory risks

SELF-SERVE ANALYTICS “Production Practices and Results”

See it in action: project-athena.com/athena-demo

B O N U S

The next challenge: They get new datasets every 15 minutes.

S T E P 3:A U T O M A T I O N

S O L U T I O N

Automate data preparation and updates to Tableau from the cloud

Data Preparation

K E Y P O I N T S

● Adding spatial data in Tableau gives a competitive advantage.

● Data preparation is especially key with spatial data as it is:

○ Scattered in hundreds of systems○ Often in a unique data model

● Together, Tableau and spatial data are highly useful for intelligent decision making.

Get the most out of your data.

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R E S O U R C E S

"Tableau makes data beautiful, FME gets data to the point where it can be made beautiful.”

- David Sypnieski, Athena Intelligence

● Intro video - safe.com/solutions/tableau

● Blog post - blog.safe.com○ Importing Spatial Data into Tableau using

FME

● Knowledge Center - knowledge.safe.com○ How to Prepare Data for Tableau with FME

(Processing Spreadsheets)○ How to Prepare Data for Tableau with FME

(Merging Multiple Spreadsheets)

● The FME Hub - hub.safe.com○ Custom Transformers for Tableau

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