Johanne Lemaire

Tableau | Data analysis | Data storytelling

MakeoverMonday 2020/W17: Road Fuel Prices

Continuing on my theme using the steps of critiquing and iterating on an existing chart from Scott Berinato’s book: The original chart: from here: https://www.racfoundation.org/data/uk-pump-prices-over-time 1. What I see first green and black, very close together (is there some significance to petrol being green?), why are we even looking at both? ups and downs, no […]

Tools for Designing Dashboards in Tableau

Taking more than a few hours for a viz, spending time to go back and forth on choices like colour palette, size of the dashboard, sourcing data. These things take time. And they are sort of annoying in Tableau, as it’s not indesign or Pagemaker or… Anyway, I can rant, or I can write a […]

MakeoverMonday 2020-W2: Pesticides

The team at MakeoverMonday gives us the above to make over. And I look into the three questions recommended for analysis/makeover: What works? Good colour contrast and legible What does not work so well? weird colour effect on the bars vertical orientation of the y-axis label “BRA” and “CHN” are not super readily recognizable as […]

Small Multiples: Conquering my Fear of this Type of Viz

Storytelling with Data’s January challenge is working with small multiples. I have been seeing these types of visualizations by accomplished Tableau public authors — and have been very intimidated by them myself. So, in the spirit of learning, and going beyond my comfort zone, I have decided to make a visualization using small multiples. But […]

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