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See How Canadians Have Aged Since 1971 from Visual Demographics Dashboards

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My latest Tableau project involves Canadian population demographics. Statistics Canada has estimates publicly available with many age groups, both traditional genders, and all the provinces and territories, for each year from 1971 to 2016. It's a lot of data which is not only cumbersome to manage and use, but hard to visualize without a lot of work. Well, Tableau enabled me to change that so here are some of the initial offerings. I will write more as I create more interfaces with different ways to organize and/or access the data. First up is your common scatterplot by single age years. The default view is for all of Canada, both genders. You can see the bump that is the baby boom now in their mid-50s to late 60s, hitting 70. That break in the smooth curve at 70 was 1946, after all the soldiers returned home and people started having babies again. The war ended in late 1945 so give 9 months for birth and you got the boom in 1946 that is a massive jump from 1945. If you...