Yearly Archives: 2011

Has User Assistance Taken a Step Backwards?

By |2011-12-18T20:43:24+00:00December 18th, 2011|General Discussions|

Overview Full Disclosure – my former company, WexTech Systems, developed and marketed the first commercial online help authoring tool, Doc-To-Help.  I use online assistance a lot and expect it to be, well, helpful. Is it me, or has the quality of online help / user assistance declined in the past few years?  For example, when [...]

Likert Scales — The Final Word?

By |2011-10-12T12:57:46+00:00October 12th, 2011|Visualizing Survey Data|

Overview I received a number of comments from my last post (see https://www.datarevelations.com/likert-scale-nirvana.html) including what I think is a better approach for staggered Likert scale visualizations from Joe Mako. Joe’s approach with various “kitchen sink” added functionality is shown in the interactive dashboard below.  Notice that you can control whether neutral values are displayed, sorting, [...]

Likert Scale Nirvana

By |2011-10-06T12:37:14+00:00October 6th, 2011|Visualizing Survey Data|

Overview I’ve written a lot about this subject (see https://www.datarevelations.com/the-likert-question-question.html and https://www.datarevelations.com/a-little-more-on-likert-scale-questions.html) but some recent discussions with friends / colleagues Joe Mako and Naomi Robbins (along with some long plane rides to and from the Midwest) encouraged me to  see how difficult it would be to create a “staggered” Likert scale chart like the one [...]

Is Trouble Brewing in Texas?

By |2011-09-21T15:40:21+00:00September 21st, 2011|Health and Social Issues|

What’s Going to Happen when the Clinics Close? I’ve had a lot of conversations this past week regarding my data visualization tracking STDs, HIV, and AIDS in Texas from 2006 to 2010 (see http://bit.ly/r57qeR.) One of the bigger questions that may have been overlooked in my accompanying blog post is what is going to happen [...]

I want to work with, not around, Tableau

By |2011-09-20T19:37:04+00:00September 20th, 2011|General Discussions|

You all know I love Tableau, yes? We're cool with that... ... but... There are times when I see Tableau guiding people to make less than ideal visualizations; situations where your have to grapple with the tool to get better results.  A good example may be found at the Tableau Public blog.  Here's a screen [...]

Tracking STDs, HIV and AIDS in Texas

By |2011-09-16T22:45:49+00:00September 16th, 2011|Health and Social Issues|

Overview The Texas State Legislature’s recent and sweeping funding cuts to all family planning organizations – including the complete defunding of Planned Parenthood – has lead Data Revelations to examine historical data on sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) and HIV / AIDS and suggest what the case count and incidence rates will look like in the near [...]

My Evil Visualization

By |2011-08-09T12:34:41+00:00August 9th, 2011|Sports and Entertainment|

My entry in Tableau Public's Evil Viz (dark map) contest. I used a photo-to-cross stitch generator to map the photo to a grid.  None of the generators I've looked at have an export to CSV so there was a lot of cutting and pasting and then mapping to lat / long coordinates. Powered by Tableau

Hopefulness and Hopelessness – Voices of the Vulnerable During Economic Crisis

By |2011-07-25T17:03:05+00:00July 25th, 2011|Health and Social Issues|

Overview Last year, UN Global Pulse launched a large-scale mobile phone-based survey that asked people from India, Iran, Mexico, Uganda, and Ukraine how they were dealing with the effects of the global economic crisis. The survey (conducted from May-August 2010) asked two multiple choice and three open-ended questions focusing on economic perceptions. Note: The fully [...]

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