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2015 CCHS Nutrition Survey Visualized in Tableau

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OK. So the first Tableau visualization I got done wasn't anything too thrilling. That's because it was for government work. However, it was with data just two days old, and public data from Statistics Canada that's cumbersome to do analysis on, or even analytics to show what's in there and quickly see what it all means, so there's value in it. StatCan has also never done anything like this publicly with their data, which they should because those CANSIM tables they have are inaccessible in a practical sense to the vast majority of the public. I'm betting the public would love their work a lot more if they visualized all their work to make it interactive and easy to understand like this! Maybe they could hire me to do this full time with all the data they released! :) The 2015 Canadian Community Health (CCHS) Nutrition Survey  seemed to have been one of these horribly complex surveys that will ultimately yield very little useful data unless you really work har...