Greetings and salutations! Many of you are hard at work on your IronViz submissions, which is what I SHOULD be doing, but it’s haaaaaaaaard. And I don’t waaaaaaannnaaaa. In the meantime, let’s talk about a fun little trick that I used for this week’s Makeover Monday, one that has an extremely limited use case but is a fun little tool to have at your disposal. I’m talking about the rotated scatterplot. For some viz I worked on the past, I was underwhelmed by the quality of the

There is an award-winning weekly project among people in the Tableau data visualization community called “Makeover Monday.” Each week, the organizers, Andy Kriebel and Eva Murray identify a data visualization that has appeared publicly and challenge participants, using the same data (and only the same data), to create a different version of the published work. Tell the same story differently, tell a better story with the same data, or just try creative techniques to accomplis