This series of interactive dashboards, built using Tableau software, allows users to easily view and interact with data from the Community Data Program catalogue. Each dashboard explores a different theme and provides opportunities for users to visualize and analyze data at geographies of their choice. The dashboards are designed to be intuitive for users at all levels of data knowledge, and useable on both PC and Mac computers.
The only software required to use these dashboards is Tableau Reader, which can be downloaded here for free. For more detailed instructions on installing and using Tableau Reader, click here.
Dashboards
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Regional Profile Dashboard
The Regional Profile Dashboard provides a detailed overview for a geography of your choosing, using Census Profile indicators relating to census families, households, demographics, employment, income and education.
In addition to PT, CD CSD, CA and CMA geographies, this dashboard allows you to view profiles of census tracts, as well as compare and rank indicators across census tracts in a CMA or CA using interactive maps and charts.
Click here to download this dashboard from the catalogue.
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Community Recovery Dashboard
The Community Recovery Dashboard is a Tableau dashboard, created to provide a monitoring tool for medium and long term COVID-19 recovery. The dashboard uses data from a variety of sources, including the Census and Labour Force Survey, to look at the state of neighborhoods across Canada prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to assess and compare their capacities for recovery from COVID-19's economic and health impacts.
The dashboard allows you to view profiles of census tracts located in CMAs, as well as compare select indicators across census tracts in a CMA using interactive maps and charts.
Click here to download this dashboard from the catalogue.
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Village of 100
This interactive Tableau dashboard presents a selection of indicators for a geography of your choosing, as if it were a village of 100 people.
Click here to download this dashboard from the catalogue.
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Profile: All Immigrants
This interactive Tableau dashboard allows you to view a selection of census variables for the immigrant population at a geography of your choice.
Click here to download this dashboard from the catalogue.
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Profile: Recent Immigrants
This interactive Tableau dashboard allows you to view a selection of census variables for the recent immigrant (period of immigration 2011-2016) population at a geography of your choice.
Click here to download this dashboard from the catalogue.
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Installing Tableau Reader
In order to view any of the Community Data Program's Tableau products, you will need Tableau Reader installed on your computer. Tableau Reader is a free program that allows you to open and interact with Tableau packaged workbook files (.TWBX), the format in which our data analysis and visualization tools are available.
Tableau Reader can be downloaded here. Click the Download Now button and the download should begin immediately.
Open the downloaded file to install the software on your computer. Once Tableau Reader is installed, double-clicking a packaged workbook file should open it automatically. If this is not the case, right-click the packaged workbook then select Open with > Tableau Reader. Alternatively, you can start Tableau Reader first, then use File > Open to locate and open a packaged workbook file.
After opening a packaged workbook once, it should be easily accessible from Tableau Reader's start screen anytime open you the software, as long as you don't move or delete the file (if you do, just repeat these steps).
Using Tableau Reader
The main function of Tableau Reader is to allow you to open and interact with Tableau dashboards, however it does offer a few tools that are helpful to know:
- The arrows in the top-left are Undo and Redo buttons. You can use these to undo/redo any interaction with the dashboard.
- Clicking File > Revert to Saved or pressing the F12 key will reset the dashboard to its original state.
- Clicking File > Export As PowerPoint or File > Print to PDF allows you to export parts or all of the dashboard to a PowerPoint slideshow or a PDF document.
- Under the Story or Dashboard dropdown menus, there are options for exporting or copying the page you are vieweing as an image.
Note that Tableau Reader is only for viewing and interacting with dashboards - it does not allow you to edit or extract data from them.
If you have any questions about using these dashboards, email us at information@communitydata.ca.