Sunday, November 23, 2014

Plotting a Flight Path on Tableau

I recently went on a trip to Singapore. On the way back to Sydney (8 hour flight) I was thinking how to plot this flight path on a map using Tableau. 
The good news is that you can find data on virtually any flight on www.flightradar24.com. It contains latitude, longitude and time and it can be exported into csv format. Depending on what area the plane is, altitude and speed are also available.
Once the data is ready the next step is to load it into Tableau.