Getting people excited about their data one visual at a time
Readers: Back on July 24, 2016, I blogged on my data visualization web site a stacked bar chart titled Who Lies More?, created by Robert Mann, answering the question which politicians lie more. His chart was based on data from PolitiFact. I have received a lot of site traffic based on posting Robert’s chart. I was interested in…
Read more Tableau Public: Who Lies The Most? The 2016 Presidential Election
[Click on Image to be redirected to Tableau Public] Political Polarization in the US Author: Robert Rouse Originally Published on: Interworks.com With this visualization of Pew Research Center’s study on political polarization in the United States, Robert Rouse is the winner of our second Iron Viz Feeder on Politics.Navigate between the different story points using the…
Read more Tableau Iron Viz Winner 2016: Political Polarizaton in the US
Readers: Today, I am going to divert from my normal blog posting and share a guest post from my co-worker, Ken Black (photo, right). Ken uses Alteryx, Tableau and other analytical techniques to investigate data. He has significant experience working with large data sets from both business and scientific projects that spanned from millions to…
Within the worldwide Cognos community, when you ask someone who to turn to about some special trick or complex feature you need to implement, the first name that comes out is Cognos Paul (Photo, right). Paul Mendelson, aka Cognos Paul, is a certified freelance Cognos developer. He has been working, tinkering, and playing with Cognos…
Read more Cognos, RAVE and D3: An Interview with Cognos Paul
Hilarious early data visualization that @kleinmatic showed from 1900 Chicago Tribune! #tapestryconf This was posted on Twitter by Brittany Fong from the Tapestry Conference being held today in Colorado. I was I was there.
Read more Tapestry 2016: Diagram Showing Relative Popularity of Women’s Weapons
Source: Martha Kang, blogged on datasciencecentral.com, March 5, 2016, Written by Rawi Nanakul & Marnie Morales, http://www.datasciencecentral.com/m/blogpost?id=6448529%3ABlogPost%3A392236 Storytelling with Data We create, interpret, and experience stories every day, whether we realize it or not. Our brains are constantly receiving input and stringing things together in order for us to make sense of the world. While…
Read more Storytelling with Data: Our Brains Crave Structure + Love Oddballs
Hello Readers: What the hell happened today? First, let’s look at Tableau Software’s stock price. Tableau Software lost half its market value and its shares hit an all-time low a day after it cut its full-year earnings guidance to between 22 cents and 35 cents a share, around half the 57 cents analysts had expected.…
Read more What the hell happened today? Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI and Analytics Platforms, 2016
