Why you should continue to listen to music, read good books, and post funny videos As I sit sequestered in my home with my wife and dog, I find myself sucked into a funk as every conversation, news article, twitter post, etc., is about the Coronavirus. Right now, music, TV, books, and work all [...]
Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson This book explains so much that I find troubling about the world, from politicians doubling and tripling down when they should know better, to prosecutors refusing to believe DNA evidence, to [...]
Steve, Jeff, and Amanda discuss The Data Visualization Society anniversary Voronoi charts Longform dashboards Visualizing the Coronavirus https://youtu.be/oLikbETEtuU
February 3, 2020 A fun ice-breaker exercise A few weeks ago my friend and colleague, Jason Forrest, asked if I would fill in at the last minute for an ailing speaker at the New York Data Visualization Society Meetup. Seeing that the meetup had drawn a nice crowd, a few minutes before the presentation [...]
Amanda Makulec joins Steve and Jeff and they discuss The Data Visualization Society Mona Chalabi and Marimekko charts Grammar of graphics and comparing Tableau with Power BI Curved timelines https://youtu.be/fSyMMrVkDEM
January 14, 2020 Overview Going back to 2013 I’ve had a “wish list” that Tableau has either addressed (navigation buttons, collapsible / expandable containers) or is about to address (dynamic parameters and server-side animation). One feature request that still remains unmet is being able to change the width of individual columns on a worksheet. [...]
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 [...]
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 clarify that [...]
Steve and Jeff discuss Animation and transitions Iron Viz 2019 https://youtu.be/9tkBl8k8BUU
November 3, 2019 Overview Anyone that follows this blog or visits datarevelations.com to read articles on visualizing survey data know that I spend a lot of time thinking about how to present Likert scale data and what to do with neutral responses. I remain a stalwart supporter of some type of divergent stacked bar [...]