Newsletter — Recent “Viz of the Day” Examples
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Visualizing Net Promoter Score Data
Much thanks to Susan Ferrari for exposing me to the concept of Net Promoter Score, Susan Baier for encouraging me to blog about it, and Helen Lindsey for providing anonymized NPS data. Overview My wife and I recently went out to a restaurant to celebrate our anniversary. Accompanying the check was a survey card with [...]
Reshaping Survey Data with Tableau 9.0
Overview Tableau 9.0 includes a built-in data prepping tool that makes reshaping survey data so it plays nicely with Tableau a much smoother experience than using the Tableau Excel add-in. While this new feature won’t replace by trusty copy of Alteryx (for reasons that I explain later in this post) there are many occasions where [...]
It’s Your Data, Not the Viz, That’s Boring
Overview Note: I based my Tableau Conference 2015 presentation on this blog post. You can download a PDF of the presentation and the Tableau packaged workbook. Click here to see a video of the presentation. Earlier this year one of my clients was updating a collection of survey data dashboards and they wanted to revisit the [...]
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility (or, Think Before you use a Donut Chart)
“With great power comes great responsibility” -- Voltaire -- Benjamin Parker (Uncle Ben from Spiderman) Overview Recently both Ryan Sleeper and Andy Kriebel blogged about donut charts in Tableau. Figure 1 -- Donut chart courtesy of Andy Kriebel While both of them cautioned about where, when, and how best to use them, I [...]
Tableau Software – The Greatest Support Community Ever? (Part Three)
In Part One of this series I discussed why the Tableau support community is unique and why you should care. In Part Two I shared my thoughts on the early years of the community and how one person in particular set the tone for sharing knowledge and expertise. In this final post I make recommendations [...]
Tableau Software – The Greatest Support Community Ever? (Part Two)
In this continuation from Part One I share my thoughts on the early years of the community and how one person in particular set the tone for sharing knowledge and expertise. How did this start? There were a lot of really great people contributing to the community in Tableau’s early years. I’ve already mentioned Jonathan [...]
Tableau Software – The Greatest Support Community Ever? (Part One)
This is the first in a series of three blog posts that explores why what makes Tableau’s support community so special, why you should care, and what you can do to ensure that the community thrives. My sincere thanks go to Andy Cotgreave and Jonathan Drummey who reviewed an early draft and provided invaluable feedback. [...]
Foreign Fighters in Iraq and Syria — Makeover
Overview A dashboard from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty has received a lot of views since it was published earlier this week and for good reason: There's a lot of important information packed into a compelling story. There's a lot I like about the dashboard but two things that I believe desperately need to [...]
Likert vs. Likert on a Scatterplot
Finally, a good use for packed bubbles! The Problem I recently received a query from a client on how to compare responses to one question with responses to another question when both questions have possible LIkert values of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. That is, if you have a collection of questions like this: [...]
