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, 20195 min read
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, 20185 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20188 min read
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, 201711 min read
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, 20176 min read
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 24, 20175 min read
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, 201712 min read
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, 20176 min read
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, 201710 min read
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, 20177 min read
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, 20178 min read
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, 20178 min read
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, 20175 min read
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, 20178 min read
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, 201711 min read
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, 20174 min read
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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