Route Map using Tableau (Hub & Spoke Model)

I had an Tableau session last week and I came across possibility of creating hub and spoke in Tableau. I am aware of its been discussed earlier as well in multiple blogs and Tableau public but here I am sharing my experience with Hub and Spoke.

For the matter of this visualization, I extracted all the arrival data to Mumbai airport for 19th Feb from Mumbai Airport arrival website and created excel file in below format:

Each origin and destination had to duplicated into multiple records. For Example:

Flight|Origin|PathID|ArrivalTime|…

6E 189|Delhi  |Delhi – Mumbai|00:40|…

6E 189|Mumbai |Delhi – Mumbai|00:40|…

Next step was to import the data into Tableau and do the necessary data manipulation for cleaner data.

  1. Add origin to detail tab under marks section, this will enable latitude and longitude in the sheet
  2. Drag path id column into color pallette.
  3. select the number of records and put into size tab

This will create following route map (hub & Spoke model) as per below image:

Then I created couple of other sheets on the basis of on-time performance and delay types for different airlines flight arriving at Mumbai Airport and created the final dashboard showing all the details.


Let me know your feedback on the dashboard