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 – …
It’s no secret that Tableau Prep Builder and Tableau Desktop share many of the same features. Aggregations, Joins, Pivots, etc are all somehow possible in both tools, even though the purpose and outcome of those are somewhat different in each of them. Some useful tools in Tableau Desktop however didn’t …
The March version of the #DataVizChat happened a few days ago, this time the time was convenient for APAC and the US, not so much for Europe and India. Next time I plan to do it in the evening in NZ, which means all of APAC and the EU should …
A couple of days ago I organised the second #DataVizChat and this is the summary! Introduction I think it’s nice to have an idea who everybody is talking to, so I open with some personal questions (Name and current location) as well as a visualisation related question and an ice …
Pretty regularly the topic of inclusivity and how to become a member of the (our) community comes up. It’s quite easy to dismiss it as a non-problem because if you read this, you are most likely part of the Tableau Community or part of the wider data viz community. However …
Today I hosted the first #DataVizChat and I am very happy with the result! There were 8 participants who chatted with me about data visualisation. The aim was to understand the community a bit better and get to know each other a bit better. As a warm up I asked …
Pretty regularly the topic of inclusivity and how to become a member of the (our) community comes up. It’s quite easy to dismiss it as a non-problem because if you read this, you are most likely part of the Tableau Community or part of the wider data viz community. However …
Recently Tableau introduced Set Actions to Tableau Desktop. While they have a lot of analytical use, there is also a lot of fun to be had with them, so here’s a little game which wasn’t possible in earlier versions of Tableau. Set actions is the possibility to dynamically assign values …
