At work I recently was asked about resources to learn design principles for data visualisation. I offered to provide some, but when I started looking into it, I realised that there is likely not just a few resources that teach you the basics. There are tons of them, focusing on …
I co-lead a Tableau User Group and may refer to Tableau or TUGs, however these learnings are applicable for any event independent of subject matter or location. Slowly but surely more and more countries lift restrictions on in-person gatherings. For us as User Group organisers that means we will need …
This post first appeared in the Data Visualization Society’s Medium publication “Nightingale” as part of their “Data Sensification” series. The content is the same with the exception of a little update at the end. In the beginning of 2020 I decided to attempt using LEGO bricks as a map-building material …
The (not so) new parameter actions in Tableau introduced the possibility for much more interactivity and navigational elements. For this weeks #MakeoverMonday, a friend asked me if it was possible to select one item in an ordered bar chart and display the 10 items just above and below it dynamically. …
Most of us are supposed to stay at home anyway these days and even if your country doesn’t enforce a complete lock-down, chances are that in person events like User Groups are currently not happening. The Tableau Community (and Tableau) stepped up to address this and make the best out …
People sometimes have weird ideas. This was definitely one of them. I didn’t even set out to build a LEGO map of New Zealand…it just happened. In January this year I was working on something completely unrelated, based on a quick map I did a bit earlier. I had created …
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 …
