April 2, 2018 Overview Followers of the Data Revelations blog and website know that my “go to” visualization for Likert scale data is a divergent stacked bar chart. Earlier this year there was some debate about whether this is a better approach than a stacked bar chart. I'm still completely in favor of the divergent approach, [...]
As we finish awards and recognition season (Academy, Gartner Magic Quadrant, Zen Master Hall of Fame, Razzi’s, etc.) I want to pause to make sure readers of this blog are aware of the contributions of two extraordinary data visualization practitioners who have not been very visible in the Tableau community for the past year [...]
February 20, 2018 Introduction So, we are a few weeks away from Gartner publishing its “Magic Quadrant” for business intelligence tools. This annual report irks me for two reasons: Wall Street analysts pay more attention to the report than I think is warranted; and, Practically every vendor finds something to crow about in a [...]
January 3, 2018 In the first part we saw how to “hard code” the creation of a dimension from row-based survey data using a Level-of-Detail expression. In this second part we’ll see how we can turn any row-based survey data into a dimension “on the fly” using a parameter. Where we left off You [...]
January 3, 2018 Note: I first wrote about this five years ago and while the approaches I suggested then do in fact work, the advent of Level of Detail (LoD) expressions in Tableau gives us a much better way to get the job done. A very big “thank you” to my friend and colleague [...]
December 18, 2017 Updated September 27, 2018 to include single-select questions. Special thanks to Shaelyn McCole at Hootology who suggested the topic, Ryan Gensel at CPI who came up with a wonderful enhancement to the connected dot plot, and Jeffrey Shaffer at Data Plus Science who suggested some cosmetic improvements. Note: The original blog post only [...]
November 25, 2017 Special thanks to Jeffrey Shaffer, Andy Cotgreave, and Rody Zakovich for feedback that helped improve the dashboard that appears at the end of this post. Overview It seems I’m not the only person who has been thinking about stacked bar charts (see posts from Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, Jonathan Schwabish, and Andy Cotgreave.) [...]
Overview Tableau’s automatic axis feature can often present problems with survey data. In this blog post we’ll look at how the problem crops up and what you can do to both fix the problem and make your visualizations more insightful. The problem with auto-adjusting bars Tableau’s automatic axis does a great job extending and contracting [...]
September 20, 2017 Overview As anyone who has read anything on my blog that relates to survey data knows, the number one impediment to success with Tableau is getting your data “just so.” Until recently I recommended two different approaches. You can either use Alteryx and have a rock solid, robust, fully-featured, (and expensive) solution [...]
Why you may be missing important insights if you only look at Percent Top 2 Boxes. August 23, 2017 Overview Anyone who has looked to this blog for insights into visualizing survey data knows that my “go to” visualization for Likert scale sentiment data is a divergent stacked bar chart (Figure 1). Figure 1 [...]
