August 6, 2019 Overview Since the release of The Big Book of Dashboards in the Spring of 2017 I’ve received a lot of requests to explain how to build the Churn dashboard in Tableau. I’m glad I waited to write the post as my friend and colleague Klaus Schulte came up with a considerably [...]
July 15, 2019 Overview In the workshops I present attendees learn from each other as well as from me. Here are two oh-so-brilliant ideas that came from attendees. How to get your organization away from using green and red As Kelly Martin has written, in addition to red and green being so hard to [...]
May 29, 2019 Overview Showing how a measure for one period compares with a previous period is a common need in data visualization. Here’s an example from one of the dashboards featured in The Big Book of Dashboards. Figure 1 -- "Ranking by now, comparing with then" dashboard from The Big Book of Dashboards. [...]
Steve and Jeff discuss Criticisms of our criticisms The cost of having a "large amplifier" Thoughts on Viz of the Day How to avoid having the tool dictate the visualization https://youtu.be/JJ3uh0fQN7U
Andy Cotgreave joins Steve and Jeff as they discuss Name the author Things that delighted Things that dismayed Adding music to augment a visualization Getting academic papers to be device responsive Bar Chart Races Invisible Women (Caroline Criado Perez) Critique in Data Visualization https://youtu.be/ktm5_yzeM-A
March 14, 2019 Overview Since 2011 a highlight of Tableau’s annual conference is “Iron Viz,” a data visualization competition loosely based on “Iron Chef.” The premise of the Tableau contest is that three contestants who have won feeder competitions have 20 minutes to build a fully functional, interactive dashboard from scratch, with each contestant [...]
Chris Love joins Steve and Jeff as they discuss Lollipop charts (again) Bar (chart) hopping Name the author Things that delighted Things that dismayed More on population pyramids (and the community offering some amazing alternatives, particularly from Chris Love) Critical thinking in data analysis https://youtu.be/thuwAYphPVs
February 6, 2019 My earlier post on why I don’t like Population Pyramids generated a lot of communication on twitter and this communication lead to what I think is an elegant and analytically solid offering from Chris Love. His contribution was in the result of iterating and collaborating with several people, including Dorian Banutoiu [...]
February 4, 2019 A special thanks to Chris Love who provided an elegant way to build the dashboard I show at the end of this post. Note: Make sure to read the follow-up article here. Some amazing stuff happened in just a couple of ours from when I first posted this article. Background I’ve [...]
Some thoughts on why pursuing the perfect chart is not a great use of your time January 22, 2019 Background During Chart Chat (Round Two) I discussed my affection for the lollipop chart and why I thought it was an acceptable alternative to the bar chart. My friend and colleague, Chris Love, was watching [...]
