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DataViz as Art: The Beautiful Transistor Radio
Somewhat dating myself here, when I was a little boy, the thing we all wanted was a transistor radio. When I was 10 years old, my parents finally bought me one for $9.99, which was a lot of money in...
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DataViz History: Comparing the Titanic to a Modern Cruise Ship
Source: Lu, Marcus, Visualized: Comparing the Titanic to a Modern Cruise Ship, Visual Capitalist, April 15, 2021,...
View ArticleGPT4 Creates a Love Poem to Tableau
I asked GPT4 to write me a love poem about #tableau. Here it is. In Tableau’s world of data,Where numbers reign supreme,There’s room for love and passion too,In the patterns we can glean. For love is...
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Choosing the right chart when creating a data visualization – Origins – Dr....
Dr. Andrew Abela Choosing the right chart for data visualization is key to providing a more immediate grasp by the viewer of the chart along with them being able to gain insight quicker to make...
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Chart Literacy: Financial Times, Jonathan Schwabish and the Graphic...
I hope you enjoyed Part 1 of this series where I discussed Dr. Andrew Abela’s Chart Suggestions-A Thought-Starter tool for choosing the best chart to visualize your data. As I described, you would...
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Chart Literacy: Financial Times Visual Vocabulary, Andy Kriebel and Tableau,...
I hope you enjoyed Part 2 of this series where I discussed the Financial Times Graphic Continuum developed by Dr. Jon Schwabish and designer Severino Ribecca. Later, the Financial Times would develop...
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Yabba Dabba Data! Find me at TC23
Tableau Conference 2023 (TC23) is a little more than a week away. Like many of my fellow attendees, I will be passing out pins I made for the conference. I thought about what I wanted as a catchphrase...
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Truthful Dataviz Tips: An Interview with Aurélien Vautier
Aurélien Vautier Bio Hello, my name is Aurélien. I live in Nantes which is a small city located on the west coast of France. First, I would like to thank Michael for giving me the opportunity to...
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Historical Dataviz: Survivorship Bias and Getting the Data Wrong
Survivorship Bias Makes You a Poor Decision Maker During World War II, researchers at the Center for Naval Analysis faced a critical problem. Many bombers were getting shot down on runs over Germany....
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Tableau Community Spotlight: Revisiting Aurélien Vautier and His New Dataviz...
Hello readers. Happy Belated New Year! Back in May, I did an interview with Aurélien. He had recently started to create a series of illustrations on several themes such as data visualization best...
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