Monthly Archives: August 2011

Hey! Your Tableau Public Viz is Ugly and Confusing

By Steve Wexler|2011-08-22T13:16:37+00:00August 22nd, 2011|General Discussions, Makeovers|

Some thoughts on Size, Color, Usability, and Engagement I am consumed by doing what I can to make sure that my Tableau visualizations (both public and for clients) are, well, consumed. While Tableau excels at helping people explore data and turn information into insights, it is still all too easy to create dashboards that neither [...]

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My Evil Visualization

By Steve Wexler|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

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