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Give. Yourself. A Break.

By Steve Wexler|2020-02-17T02:16:56+00:00January 6th, 2020|Business Visualizations, General Discussions|

December 31, 2019 So many tools, technologies, and initiatives Are you trying to learn and / or keep up with any of these tools, technologies, initiatives, and features? TableauPowerBIQlikMicrostrategyLooker, FlourishD3AlteryxTableau PrepTableau ServerKnimeRSPSSMapboxPythonAIMachine LearningSQL ServerPostgresJSONData Visualization SocietyMakeover MondayWorkout WednesdaySWD ChallengeIronQuestIronVizSports Viz Sundayset actionsviz animationsparameter actionsdynamic parametersspatial functionsetc. Just keeping up with one of these can [...]

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DON’T center, right-align, or justify text on a dashboard

By Steve Wexler|2022-08-03T18:58:48+00:00December 3rd, 2019|Business Visualizations, General Discussions, Makeovers|

Or at least have a very good reason for doing so. Note: My observations are for dashboards in languages where one reads from left to right. If you create dashboards in Aramaic, Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, etc., just reverse everything. IMPORTANT: Since posting I've received lots of feedback on this. I want to [...]

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I want you to know about these books

By Steve Wexler|2020-02-15T17:31:17+00:00October 23rd, 2019|Business Visualizations, General Discussions, Health and Social Issues|

October 23, 2019 I’ve read some great books this year. Here are two that I think are noteworthy. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men By Caroline Criado Perez My father was an ardent feminist. This was very rare for someone of his generation and I thought how lucky I was that [...]

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I want you to know about this person

By Steve Wexler|2020-02-15T17:55:48+00:00October 21st, 2019|General Discussions|

October 21, 2019 Kelly Martin A friend and colleague died a few weeks ago. Her name was Kelly Martin and she had a profound impact on me and the entire Tableau community. There is much I could write about her, but I know I will not do as good a job as Bridget [...]

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10 Fascinating Findings from the Data Visualization Society 2019 Community Survey

By Steve Wexler|2020-09-14T14:06:14+00:00September 29th, 2019|Business Visualizations, General Discussions, Visualizing Survey Data|

September 29, 2019 Overview 1,359 people participated in the 2019 The Annual Data Visualization Community Survey conducted by The Data Visualization Society (DVS). The survey covers professional data visualization details like salary and hourly compensation, tool use, location, demographic data, audiences, organizational structure, and more. I think this is an ambitious, bordering on heroic, [...]

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Benevolent Manipulation in Data Visualization

By Steve Wexler|2020-02-15T18:40:02+00:00July 15th, 2019|Business Visualizations, General Discussions|

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 [...]

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Showing now versus then? Consider a Comet chart

By Steve Wexler|2022-12-23T18:17:59+00:00May 29th, 2019|Business Visualizations, General Discussions, Makeovers|

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. [...]

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What’s wrong with Iron Viz, and how to fix it

By Steve Wexler|2020-02-15T21:14:13+00:00March 14th, 2019|Business Visualizations, General Discussions|

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 [...]

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More about Population Pyramids (and why this community is amazing)

By Steve Wexler|2024-09-13T14:22:05+00:00February 6th, 2019|Business Visualizations, General Discussions, Makeovers|

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 [...]

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You’re making a Population Pyramid? You can do better.

By Steve Wexler|2020-02-15T21:36:10+00:00February 4th, 2019|Business Visualizations, General Discussions, Makeovers|

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 [...]

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