Chart Chat Live — Round 16
In this Chart Chat we discuss election trackers and showing uncertainty. https://youtu.be/STk6n3JJGvE
Chart Chat Live — Round 15
In this Chart Chat we discuss waffle and unit charts, Iron Viz, a new approach to visualizing a P&L statement, and contact tracking visualizations. https://youtu.be/-q3ZTmWkQV8
Chart Chat Live — Round 8
Steve and Jeff discuss Animation and transitions Iron Viz 2019 https://youtu.be/9tkBl8k8BUU
What’s wrong with Iron Viz, and how to fix it
March 14, 2019 Overview Since 2011 a highlight of Tableau’s annual conference is “Iron Viz,” a data visualization competition loosely based on “Iron Chef.” The premise of the Tableau contest is that three contestants who have won feeder competitions have 20 minutes to build a fully functional, interactive dashboard from scratch, with each contestant [...]
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 [...]
Was Stephen Few Right? My Concerns with a Company’s “Iron Viz” Competition
If I see a visualization that is poorly designed or worse, misleading, I'm going to say something about it. I hope you will do the same. In March of 2013 Stephen Few published a scathing review of Tableau 8. Few's thesis was that Tableau had caved to marketing pressure and its new product would encourage users to [...]