Data Visualization analyzing 100 years of July weather data for Tucson Arizona. Data is sourced from weather.gov
All in design
Men's Luge Singles - Historical Olympic Finish Rankings
Since 1964 Germany, Austria and Italy have claimed nearly 85% of all Men's Luge Singles medals in the Winter Olympics. Explore the historical finish rankings in this #SportsVizSunday
Seasons. A Tableau Liturgical Calendar
I’ve long since desired to produce a more modern remake of a church liturgical calendar that displays the historically observed seasons of the year and key dates of worship. With some heavy use of the Figma arc tool, plus a sunburst chart in Tableau, and a bit of layering, I was able to create the calendar shown here.
US Price Parity
This week’s #MakeoverMonday focuses on a chart by howmuch.net visualizing US purchasing price parity by region. I used a connected strip plot to highlight the regional differences and the changes over time. Enjoy!
Dry Beans.
A Computer Vision System was developed to distinguish seven different registered varieties of dry beans with similar features. This #MakeoverMonday visualization focuses on the results of that classifier and visualizing the differences between the bean varieties.
UK Brexports
A #MakeoverMonday visualization looking at the collapse of UK Exports in January due to Brexit
The Extensible, Invisible Reference Line
An invisible reference line can be used for many different purposes within Tableau. For example, they can be used to ‘fix’ an axis based on a user selection, to add additional space to a chart for labeling, and in this post, I step through how I used an invisible reference line to create a visual effect in my #IronViz Dashboard.
Leader Lines and Labels for Small Map Polygons in Tableau
Tableau’s spatial functions make it easy to create dynamic leader lines for small polygon map labels. This is just a quick post that demonstrates how to create them and how they can be used to add clarity to your visualization.
IronViz | Exploring the Influence of Social Capital on COVID-19
My IronViz entry explores the influence of Social Capital on COVID-19
Fulfilled: A Collaboration with Kevin Flerlage
I recently had an opportunity to collaborate with Tableau Zen Master Kevin Flerlage (www.flerlagetwins.com) on a visualization project involving Old Testament biblical prophecies and their New Testament fulfillment. It was great to work with Kevin and learn from him, and I’m really proud of our end product. Here’s a bit of insight into what it took us to get there.
Designing on Principle: A #MakeoverMonday Design Analysis (Guest Post)
There are seven key principles of design: Balance, Contrast, Emphasis, Movement, Pattern, Rhythm, and Unity. In this guest blog post, David Borczuk explains how he used each of these design principles to make the week 7, Makeover Monday (MoM) submission:
Visualizing Treatment of Mental Healthcare in Prisons
Visualizing the significant differences in treatment methodologies between US prisons and jails.
Extending the Dot Plot
Parameter Actions and Viz Animations introduce powerful new possibilities to help practitioners guide viewers to the key data stories told through their viz. Here’s how I used those features to accomplish that using the October Project Health Viz data set on Autism.
Aristotle and Communicating with Data
What do three modes of persuasion from ancient greek philosophy have to do with data visualization? Here are some thoughts…