This is the question that Eva Murray’s latest book “Empowered by Data” aims to answer. And it certainly does that. Eva’s book is the latest in my list of books to read and review throughout 2021, but in many ways it’s an “odd one out”. It’s probably least relevant to most of my ambitions in […]
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Why is sport such a good topic for visualisations?
Sport visualisations won’t be for everyone, but I do think that the debate on this question is quite simple. Sports by their nature are full of numbers and data: times, goals, scores, dates, rankings, statistics, averages, records, tables, and the like. Most of these are not too difficult to get hold of, either via Wikipedia […]
What did I learn from Tableau Conference 2016? (part 2)
Part 1 was posted a few days ago here, featuring numbers 1-8. We’ll jump in at number 9. 9. Tableau is moving into data preparation. With the announcement of a three-year roadmap followed by the developers on stage, Tableau announced a raft of new features large and small. These are all well documented now in […]
