“This is Edmonton”, 3D Map with Tableau and Mapbox
How can we make demographic information rather more taking part and accessible? Census information has been accessible on-line by means of fairly just a few information portals, nevertheless no matter how extraordinarily useful the insights they provide could also be – for people transferring, corporations searching for to open up a model new location, or non-profits wanting to focus their corporations for optimum affect – detailed census information sometimes stays unused in important decision-making.
The visualization was lined on CBC Edmonton News (April nineteenth 2022, 18:13), along with CityNews Edmonton and CBC Radio Active.
We acquired right here up with “This is Edmonton” as a way to every improve engagement and make the insights accessible. The insights are initially launched to prospects by means of storytelling and 3D mapping…
One of the preliminary story-telling screens greeting prospects to the doable insights.
… after which the buyer can then browse and consider neighborhoods with each other throughout the metropolis, collectively with their very personal. Storytelling makes the insights further accessible, whereas the 3D map is an environment friendly methodology of creating engagement.
Combining Technologies
Another goal for this enterprise was to assemble on present devices that are acquainted to information scientists. In particular, the charts on the right are constructed with Tableau and hosted on Tableau Public, setting up off concepts from a dashboard that the City of Edmonton had beforehand created.
One of the challenges was to create dashboards in a way that did not look like a typical Tableau workbook, and to mix them seamlessly with libraries and devices to make storytelling and mapping doable.
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