Curious Incidents
Famously, Sherlock Holmes makes reference in one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's mysteries to "the curious incident of the dog in the...
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- Jan 2, 2018
- 8 min
Wait But Why?
Before we get started, let me reassure you: this is neither a year in review, nor a "my goals for 2018" post. As a person who still...
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- Dec 19, 2017
- 11 min
Art For Earth's Sake
Inherent in the idea of remixing or remaking someone's existing, original design--in any milieu--is the conceit that you believe that you...
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- Oct 25, 2017
- 5 min
Slow and Low
That is the tempo. Are you old enough to know that the title of this post is a Beastie Boys lyric? (Are you old enough to know who the...
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- Sep 26, 2017
- 12 min
The Guts Are the Glory
Practicing complicated or bespoke Tableau development techniques is valuable, even if it doesn't always translate to popular acclaim....
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- Aug 8, 2017
- 10 min
On Tilt: Rotated Scatterplot Charts
Greetings and salutations! Many of you are hard at work on your IronViz submissions, which is what I SHOULD be doing, but it’s...
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- Jul 25, 2017
- 7 min
Look At the Work, Puny Viewer!
A gentle reminder: if you haven't looked at, or maybe even filled out, my survey about failure, I'd really appreciate it if you did. It...
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- Jul 17, 2017
- 8 min
Finding Your Voice
First, a request: if you haven't looked at, or maybe even filled out, my survey about failure, I'd really appreciate it if you did. It...
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- Jun 28, 2017
- 8 min
Most People Think
Back in the 1990s, I once was stuck on a plane out of Dallas with an extraordinarily memorable stranger. In the years since, I have...
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- May 11, 2017
- 5 min
What Do You Speak For?
(Charlie Hutcheson has written a fine technical review of my viz for this week as part of his Takeapart Tuesday series. I encourage you...
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- Apr 24, 2017
- 5 min
Dashboard Confessional: Thinking Out Loud
Among the many internet topics that are sure to generate attention and engagement -- right up there with kitten videos, "what Hogwarts...
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- Apr 21, 2017
- 10 min
Going a Different Way: The NHS Dataset
As might be evident to close readers, when it comes to Makeover Monday designs, I often prefer to go in a different direction with my...
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- Apr 11, 2017
- 8 min
Oil and Gold: Expensive Stuff From the Ground
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...
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- Mar 29, 2017
- 11 min
Not a Violin Chart
(UPDATE April 22, 2017: A different technique for creating a viola chart, submitted by Ben Young (who is not on Twitter), has been added...
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- Feb 28, 2017
- 4 min
The Perplexing Appeal of POTATOKRIEBEL
Sometimes, paradoxically, the best results can be born out of pure laziness. This was the case for my most recent contribution to the...
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- Jan 20, 2017
- 12 min
Designer, Analyst, Human Being: Lessons Learned from Analyzing (and Re-Analyzing (and Re-Re-Analyzin
There is an award-winning weekly project among people in the Tableau data visualization community called “Makeover Monday.” Each week,...
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- Sep 5, 2016
- 2 min
Celebrating Alan Rickman (#MakeoverMonday)
As part of the #MakeoverMonday series, I revisited a Slow Journalism article about the career of the late actor Alan Rickman. While the...
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- Aug 2, 2016
- 1 min
The Olympics of Euphemisms for "Groin" (#MakeoverMonday)
As part of the #MakeoverMonday series, I reworked a FiveThirtyEight study on what words and phrases different media types use when they...
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- Jul 12, 2016
- 1 min
Partisan Response to the Orlando Nightclub Massacre (#MakeoverMonday)
As part of the #MakeoverMonday series, I created this visual representation of the partisan nature of public statements by elected...
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- Jun 20, 2016
- 1 min
Hard-Boiled Theft in Japan (#MakeoverMonday)
As part of the #MakeoverMonday series, I created this Raymond Chandler-meets-anime visualization of the types of theft that took place in...
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