Yearly Archives: 2014

Tableau Software – The Greatest Support Community Ever? (Part Three)

By |2014-12-09T20:58:39+00:00December 9th, 2014|Business Visualizations, General Discussions|

In Part One of this series I discussed why the Tableau support community is unique and why you should care. In Part Two I shared my thoughts on the early years of the community and how one person in particular set the tone for sharing knowledge and expertise.  In this final post I make recommendations [...]

Tableau Software – The Greatest Support Community Ever? (Part Two)

By |2020-08-25T19:40:30+00:00December 1st, 2014|Business Visualizations, General Discussions|

In this continuation from Part One I share my thoughts on the early years of the community and how one person in particular set the tone for sharing knowledge and expertise.   How did this start? There were a lot of really great people contributing to the community in Tableau’s early years.  I’ve already mentioned Jonathan [...]

Tableau Software – The Greatest Support Community Ever? (Part One)

By |2014-11-24T07:07:33+00:00November 24th, 2014|Business Visualizations, General Discussions|

This is the first in a series of three blog posts that explores why what makes Tableau’s support community so special, why you should care, and what you can do to ensure that the community thrives. My sincere thanks go to Andy Cotgreave and Jonathan Drummey who reviewed an early draft and provided invaluable feedback. [...]

Foreign Fighters in Iraq and Syria — Makeover

By |2014-09-18T19:04:10+00:00September 18th, 2014|Makeovers|

Overview A dashboard from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty has received a lot of views since it was published earlier this week and for good reason: There's a lot of important information packed into a compelling story. There's a lot I like about the dashboard but two things that I believe desperately need to [...]

Use Tableau? You Might Want To Use Alteryx, Too

By |2014-09-03T10:04:20+00:00September 3rd, 2014|Business Visualizations, General Discussions, Visualizing Survey Data|

Overview In my experience the number one impediment to success with Tableau is getting data in a format that plays nicely with Tableau. Alteryx is a combination ETL (extract, transform, load), geospatial, and statistical modeling solution that just may solve this “getting-the-data-right” problem. And it plays very nicely with Tableau. In this blog I will [...]

How The Economist, USA Today, and Fox News Might Display a Chart

By |2014-08-27T09:56:13+00:00August 27th, 2014|Business Visualizations, General Discussions|

Overview I was reading a very interesting blog post this weekend from which I learned that counseling may do little to help young people with drinking problems.  Specifically, counseling reduces the average number of drinks consumed from 13.7 drinks per week to 12.2 drinks per week. I wondered if a visual might drive this point [...]

Data Visualization — Explaining Just What It Is That I Do

By |2014-06-10T16:05:36+00:00June 10th, 2014|Business Visualizations, General Discussions, Visualizing Survey Data|

... and some thoughts on the evolving art and science of visualizing data I tend to gravitate towards occupations that are hard to explain.  I started my professional life, and continue to be, a music arranger and orchestrator.  I can tell by people’s perplexed looks that they are wondering if I’m the guy that decides where [...]

Visual Ranking within a Category

By |2014-05-23T08:01:35+00:00May 23rd, 2014|Business Visualizations, General Discussions, Health and Social Issues, Visualizing Survey Data|

Overview I’ve had a spate of requests from clients to show how survey responses rank across different categories and I’ve come up with a way that makes it very easy to see where the big stories are. Note that this approach works for any measure that can be ranked, not just survey responses. Let’s see [...]

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