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 [...]
Jeff and Steve discuss Jeff's makeover of the Nightingale "Rose" chart Lollipop charts Getting feedback from your audience (so you can see with fresh eyes) Joey Cherdarchuk from Dark Horse Analytics Pie Charts and Bar Charts living in harmony Padding in dashboards "Guess the author" Sankey diagrams Embellishments in music and dashboards Population pyramids [...]
Overview A number of people have asked me how to use Tableau to visualize survey data that was captured using Google Forms. I decided to try this for myself and built a pre-course survey where I asked folks that were going to attend one of my classes about their experience with survey tools and [...]
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 [...]
November 28, 2018 Thank you to everyone that joined our first Chart Chat Live webinar. https://youtu.be/Z3wLmRvy4YQ In addition to the recording above, you can also download Steve’s slides here and download Jeff’s slides here. Recap After brief introductions, Steve discussed color and the use of BANs. Steve discussed “Lonely [...]
September 12, 2018 Overview I’ve recently seen some questionable approaches to visualizing check-all-that-apply questions (CATA questions) in Tableau. I’m concerned because many of these approaches won’t work if either you filter the data to only show some options, or if some of your survey participants skip the CATA questions. It’s the latter reason that [...]
Visual representation of error bars using Tableau August 20, 2018 Much thanks to Ben Jones whose book Communicating with Tableau provides the blueprint for the calculations I use, Jeffrey Shaffer for providing feedback on my prototypes and sharing research papers from Sönning, Cleveland, and McGill, and Daniel Zvinca for his thoughtful and always invaluable [...]
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 [...]
