This week's #MakeoverMonday was a re-imagining of a chart that Andy Kriebel did 10 years ago when he first started using Tableau. It was about comparing the rising cost of oil and of gold as commodities. The premise was they were somewhat, but not exactly, linked together in value. By building the chart, we wanted to see how this relationship changed over time, and whether the commodities were truly correlated. Early Returns The first few things that I saw when people started

Sometimes, paradoxically, the best results can be born out of pure laziness. This was the case for my most recent contribution to the epic Makeover Monday project, now in the 9th week of its second year. In Week 8 of 2017, the data set provided for remixing was “EU Potato Sector.” As inherently thrilling and intriguing as that data seemed, I was fully engaged with the Hacking Open Data project, which took up most of my vizzing time outside of work. After completing that, I ha