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Wash (and wear) your Tableau maps

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 The other day, I was making a map data viz for showing the counties in Western Kenyan, highlighting uptake of Family planning services. Everything went fine, I was able to make the filled map overlaid with data from the Kenya Health Information System. My worst moments came when I had to present the data. The data viz looked like below. Cleary, you can see that the story is obscured with a lot of noise for Kenya's neighboring country - Uganda. The Uganda map comes out much stronger than the Kenyan counties. I looked for a way of removing the Uganda, as well as the other neighboring countries so that I could focus on Kenya alone. Enter washing. The map needed to be washed clean and hunged up to dry, literally like a cloth. Tableau has the feature where you can remove your unwanted maps and keep only a specific map.  First, you ensure that your view is displayed as "Map" on the mark card. 2. On the menu bar, Click on [Map] > [Map layers] to open map layer side menu. 3.
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The introduction was very dramatic. I still remember that day like it was yesterday. He just appeared one early January morning, unannounced like a flash flood in the dreaded Suguta Valley. He was tall, dark, and slightly built. He entered the classroom, took a piece of chalk, and scribbled something on the blackboard - WESKOS .  Without uttering a word, he then proceeded to write some questions on the board, gave us 20 minutes to answer, marked them, and started the drill. The drill was, for every question failed, you get two strokes of the cane. He then left the classroom one hour later leaving us bewildered rubbing our aching buttocks and wondering who the hell is this guy. Just like that.  We had just joined class eight. Life was good. We were naughty boys living the times of our lives. Simple, nice life full of abundance or so we thought. Not until he happened, and our lives would change forever. Our days were spread between herding cows, swimming in the river, or hunting for
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