Visualizing the Future
A harrowing tale I have to tell, my friends in data visualization. A tale for only the hardiest of heart, but a tale needs must be told....
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- Jan 10, 2019
- 5 min
Unasked Questions
Possibly as early as elementary school, but certainly by middle school, we’ve been introduced to the classic questions that journalists...
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- Jul 9, 2018
- 5 min
Zen Student
It was nearing the end of Day One at Tableau Conference Europe, and she was inviting me to watch her Tips and Tricks session the...
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- May 30, 2018
- 2 min
Kill Your Darlings
Quick post here. Could probably be a tweet. But I was just messing around with some old data, testing out a different technique in...
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- Mar 27, 2018
- 3 min
Experimental
For humor (mostly), I have been known to join in the common refrain that no matter how creative and amazing and groundbreaking the...
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- Feb 6, 2018
- 2 min
We Need ... Space ... to Live
Has THIS ever HAPPENED to you? You have a nice three-pane Tableau line chart with multiple categories. It's a time-series. You want to...
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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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- Nov 6, 2017
- 6 min
Say Something
You guys know the band James? Early 90s, UK band, most famous in the US for the song “Laid?” Well, I’ve had a different song of theirs in...
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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 25, 2017
- 6 min
Using Your Capital to Elevate Others
When I joined Northrop Grumman/TASC in 2001 as a web designer, my direct supervisor (“section manager” in company lingo), Jim, was a man...
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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 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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