This is a summary of my presentation at TC23 of the same title, while it was prepared for a Tableau event, it is entirely tool independent; in fact all aspects of it apply similarly to any other solutions you would want to design, websites, apps, products, etc. Below you’ll find …
I do enjoy a good challenge and recently the PreppinData and WorkoutWednesday teams joined forces in a challenge that was based on Salesforce data. This was the perfect setup to take Salesforces native analytics engine (CRMA fka. TCRM fka. Einstein Analytics) for a spin to see what is possible. To …
I’m sure if you work in visualisation, it won’t be long before you hear of “Turbo”, a new colour map developed by Google AI. Colour is a big topic so if somebody comes up with a new combination of colours which improves on existing schemes it’s interesting to see how …
When you work in Data Visualisation, there is no way around bar and line charts! They are arguably the most fundamental and versatile graphs out there. They are so versatile that Tableau’s Andy Cotgreave formulated a law around them: The longer an innovative visualization exists, the probability someone says it …
The other day I realised something! It wasn’t a very innovative thought but it helped me to better contextualise what I (and most others who will read this) do. When talking about data visualisation, the first thought which comes to many peoples minds is “creating charts”; that’s – understandably – …
I recently analysed call data especially focusing on pattern throughout the week. After creating two heatmaps to plot hours of the day against weekday for number of calls and call length, I continued to create marginal histograms for further details. While trying to figure out smart ways to combine two …
I recently gave a guest lecture at the University of Auckland for the Data Visualisation Students. Andrew Eberhard, the lecturer, asked me to talk about myself and my background, my job and the industry, data visualisation in general and Tableau in particular. It was a bit strange to actually describe …
This post is based on a presentation that I originally created for the Auckland Tableau User Group (#AKLTUG) in December 2016 and then extended for the Tableau Fringe Festival APAC (#TFFAPAC) in August 2017. It’s best consumed as what it is: a talk! So I encourage you to watch …
This weeks #MakeoverMonday was all about dietary requirements. A really simple data set about the percentage of people in the different regions of the world who follow certain special diets (kosher, low sugar, dairy free, etc.). While working on it I started thinking about the message I communicate and how …
Stephen Few recently published an article titled “Data Is Not Beautiful”. Apart from the title, which is an obvious reference to the subreddit r/DataIsBeautiful, Randal S. Olson (one of the Moderators of the subreddit) also mentioned that they were in discussion with Stephen to do an AMA (ask me anything) but …
