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 [...]
And a great way to visualize Pareto analysis December 2, 2018 Special thanks to Lindsey Poulter, Andy Cotgreave, Jeffrey Shaffer, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, Robert Kosara, Adam Crahen, and Joey Cherdarchuk. Overview While at this year’s Tapestry conference (by far my favorite conference) I had the good fortune to literally bump into Joey Cherdarchuk from [...]
July 22, 2018 Overview After writing my blog post about why I still love the Jitterplot, I got some thoughtful feedback from Adam McCann, Jeffrey Shaffer, and the always provocative Daniel Zvinca. Dan had written a wonderful article suggesting a Stingray plot as an alternative, and Jeff and Adam’s comments encouraged me to revisit [...]
June 26, 2018 Thanks to Brad Epstein, Joe Mako, Jeffrey Shaffer, Andy Cotgreave, and Daniel Zvinca for helping me develop and refine my thinking on this. The FedEx Logo I wonder how many people reading this article know about the arrow hidden in the FedEx logo. Here’s the logo. Do you see the arrow? [...]
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 [...]
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.) [...]
August 3, 2017 In my last blog post I pointed out that I wish I had put BANs (big-ass numbers) in the Churn dashboard featured in chapter 24 of the book (see https://www.datarevelations.com/iterate.html.) I had a similar experience this week when I revisited the Net Promoter Score dashboard from Chapter 17. I've been reading Don [...]
April 25, 2017 Overview I became a big fan of adding a marginal histogram to scatterplots when I first saw them applied in Tableau visualizations from Shine Pulikathara and Ben Jones. For those not familiar with how these work, consider the scatterplot shown in Figure 1 that shows the relationship between salary and age. [...]
More thoughts on the Markimekko chart and in particular how to build one in Tableau. April 4, 2017 Overview Given my reluctance to embrace odd chart types and my conviction that I would find something better I was surprised to find myself last month writing about -- and endorsing -- the Marimekko chart. If I [...]
