A VIZ APART

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....

Possibly as early as elementary school, but certainly by middle school, we’ve been introduced to the classic questions that journalists...

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...

Quick post here. Could probably be a tweet. But I was just messing around with some old data, testing out a different technique in...

For humor (mostly), I have been known to join in the common refrain that no matter how creative and amazing and groundbreaking the...

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...

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...

Inherent in the idea of remixing or remaking someone's existing, original design--in any milieu--is the conceit that you believe that you...

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...

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...

Practicing complicated or bespoke Tableau development techniques is valuable, even if it doesn't always translate to popular acclaim....

When I joined Northrop Grumman/TASC in 2001 as a web designer, my direct supervisor (“section manager” in company lingo), Jim, was a man...

Greetings and salutations! Many of you are hard at work on your IronViz submissions, which is what I SHOULD be doing, but it’s...

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...

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...

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...

(Charlie Hutcheson has written a fine technical review of my viz for this week as part of his Takeapart Tuesday series. I encourage you...

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...

(UPDATE April 22, 2017: A different technique for creating a viola chart, submitted by Ben Young (who is not on Twitter), has been added...

Sometimes, paradoxically, the best results can be born out of pure laziness. This was the case for my most recent contribution to the...