A VIZ APART

Famously, Sherlock Holmes makes reference in one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's mysteries to "the curious incident of the dog in the...

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...

Inherent in the idea of remixing or remaking someone's existing, original design--in any milieu--is the conceit that you believe that you...

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...

Practicing complicated or bespoke Tableau development techniques is valuable, even if it doesn't always translate to popular acclaim....

Greetings and salutations! Many of you are hard at work on your IronViz submissions, which is what I SHOULD be doing, but it’s...

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...

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...

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...

(Charlie Hutcheson has written a fine technical review of my viz for this week as part of his Takeapart Tuesday series. I encourage you...

Among the many internet topics that are sure to generate attention and engagement -- right up there with kitten videos, "what Hogwarts...

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...

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...

(UPDATE April 22, 2017: A different technique for creating a viola chart, submitted by Ben Young (who is not on Twitter), has been added...

Sometimes, paradoxically, the best results can be born out of pure laziness. This was the case for my most recent contribution to the...

There is an award-winning weekly project among people in the Tableau data visualization community called “Makeover Monday.” Each week,...

As part of the #MakeoverMonday series, I revisited a Slow Journalism article about the career of the late actor Alan Rickman. While the...

As part of the #MakeoverMonday series, I reworked a FiveThirtyEight study on what words and phrases different media types use when they...

As part of the #MakeoverMonday series, I created this visual representation of the partisan nature of public statements by elected...

As part of the #MakeoverMonday series, I created this Raymond Chandler-meets-anime visualization of the types of theft that took place in...