As the 2016 French Open Tennis began a couple of weeks ago, the withdrawal of Roger Federer through injury was major story, both from a sport perspective (Federer remains a leading contender and his absence will be a major boost to his competitors) and from a data perspective (Federer is so consistent, that he has […]
Tag: tableau
How important is clean data?
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 […]
Flags?
Lets’s start with a simple recent viz – under the tag of #FixitFriday a group of people took a look at a great initial visualisation on the ft.com website to look at other ways of showing the data. There were some great small multiple type visualisations created, whereas I went for something else: some ranked […]
Questions in dataviz – why this blog?
“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 […]
Questions in Dataviz 