A blog about data visualisation and visualisations
Here’s a post about my latest significant visualisation – it’s Olympic-themed, centred around all the decathlon greats from 1984 to the present day. I’m genuinely quite happy, but not delighted, with it. Click on the image below to see the interactive version on Tableau Public. And please, if you like to explore this kind of […]
First – an explanation. The majority of my visualisations are done using Tableau and published on Tableau Public (here). Available for all to see, it’s a great resource for experimenting and publishing work that you’re happy for all to see. Click on it today and you’ll see there are 190000+ authors, 25M+ views/month and over […]
Data visualisations can cover just about any topic, from the sublime to the ridiculous; from the serious to the frivolous. I’ve seen no end of powerful visualisations on police brutality, casualties in war, mass shootings, the list goes on. Many more of these have surfaced, either new or updated, in the wake of the recent […]
Obviously the answer to this is “yes”, at least inasmuch as it can’t be the other way round. I’ve learnt (well, I knew really – let’s say “confirmed”) today that you can’t just decide on a visualisation without thoroughly knowing your data and its suitability for the job. Take the excellent visualisation below, published in […]
Kind of an obvious question for this post. Of course it’s important to have clean data. For me, I’ve been involved in the thankless task of producing clean data for the last twenty years, much longer than I’ve been involved in visualisation. This article was one I wrote last year which confirms that most people […]
“You should do a blog”, they said. The blog will be about data visualisation – to do with my skills, experiences and nuggets of wisdom, most specifically in using Tableau. Well, the Tableau community is huge, friendly and helpful, so I’m delighted to become more a part of it in starting this blog. But what […]
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