I am able to trick Tableau into plotting the Continental US in a Lambert Conformal Conic projection (because Mercator is terrible), but I cannot get the polygon centroids to plot so that I can create pie charts within each state. Is Tableau a one-trick pony that can only do this if in a Mercator projection? If so, would I be able to create said map in Mapbox and bring it over to Tableau? If so, how? Note: I tried creating a point shapefile using the same method as the polygon shapefile. No joy.
Hi,
You might want to check out Sarah Battersby's blogs (below) on re-projecting and there might be some pointers in one of those blog posts. I think you're probably going to need to use QGIS (free open source GIS software) to project those centroid points into proper projection (see blog post #2 below the disclaimer, when using QGIS) to align with whatever work you've already done for the U.S. map layer. Best, Don
