You all know I love Tableau, yes? We're cool with that... ... but... There are times when I see Tableau guiding people to make less than ideal visualizations; situations where your have to grapple with the tool to get better results. A good example may be found at the Tableau Public blog. Here's a screen [...]
Overview The Texas State Legislature’s recent and sweeping funding cuts to all family planning organizations – including the complete defunding of Planned Parenthood – has lead Data Revelations to examine historical data on sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) and HIV / AIDS and suggest what the case count and incidence rates will look like in the near [...]
Some thoughts on Size, Color, Usability, and Engagement I am consumed by doing what I can to make sure that my Tableau visualizations (both public and for clients) are, well, consumed. While Tableau excels at helping people explore data and turn information into insights, it is still all too easy to create dashboards that neither [...]
My entry in Tableau Public's Evil Viz (dark map) contest. I used a photo-to-cross stitch generator to map the photo to a grid. None of the generators I've looked at have an export to CSV so there was a lot of cutting and pasting and then mapping to lat / long coordinates. Powered by Tableau
Overview Perhaps it’s a Sunday afternoon and the baseball team you root for isn't playing because the game is rained out. You’ve got a satellite season ticket and can watch any game you want. Or maybe you’re fed up with the team that has broken your heart for one too many seasons and want to [...]
Overview Last year, UN Global Pulse launched a large-scale mobile phone-based survey that asked people from India, Iran, Mexico, Uganda, and Ukraine how they were dealing with the effects of the global economic crisis. The survey (conducted from May-August 2010) asked two multiple choice and three open-ended questions focusing on economic perceptions. Note: The fully [...]
I was originally planning to write a top 10 Tableau feature request, but my latest project begs me to focus on just one issue. I'm currently documenting how a truly zaftig collection of dashboards was put together and how it should be maintained. I am struck at just how much effort I (and soon my [...]
I subscribe to many magazines and newspapers that I read in last-century printed format. It isn't so much because I prefer the look and feel of print; it's just that I haven't sprung for an iPad yet. But a recent blog post from Stephen Few reminds me how much richer a reading / learning experience [...]
This one is a bit off the beaten path, but it continues to fascinate me and forces me to think about how people perceive things (which most certainly *is* on the path.) See http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/right-brain-v-left-brain/story-e6frf7jo-1111114603615
I came across a terrific blog post from Ross Perez who cites a really clever Tableau technique from Andy Cotgreave. Continuing where we left off with our discussion from The Likert Question Question, in the interactive example at the end of this post we display Likert bars, but allow viewers to see the details by [...]
