Ever since one of my contacts at Tableau mentioned Project Maestro, I was keen to get my hands on it to see how data transformation can – hopefully – seamlessly be integrated with data visualisation. Now, since the first beta versions have been released I wanted to write down my …
In this series I will take apart some of the dashboards that I have created and the focus will be on the design choices I made, beyond choosing the right chart type. I think, being able to justify choices like colour, positioning and labeling is a good practise to end up …
In this series I will take apart some of the dashboards that I have created and the focus will be on the design choices I made, beyond choosing the right chart type. I think, being able to justify choices like colour, positioning and labeling is a good practise to end up …
In this series I will take apart some of the dashboards that I have created and the focus will be on the design choices I made, beyond choosing the right chart type. I think, being able to justify choices like colour, positioning and labeling is a good practise to end up …
I don’t consider myself a designer, not even particularly good at designing anything, really. However when developing dashboards or preparing presentations of any kind, I have to make design choices at every step. What helps me a lot is how I approach those choices and the decisions that I take. …
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 …
So I finally managed to set up another blogging project. Until now I am not 100% sure what I will be doing here, so for the moment I will call my indecisiveness and potential laziness “agile” and every change an “iteration”. With this introduction, here is my MVP: version 0.1! …
