Tableau | Data analysis | Data storytelling
Sometimes, rarely, real life and vizzing meet and I get to use data visualization outside work. The scenario: We have to refinance our $2.5 million mortgage for our co-operative’s 32-unit building. We have four offers, and want to choose the best option. Dataviz to the rescue!!! – At least, that’s what I thought. What came […]
What you can and cannot say based on the data The smallest unit of a story is the word, and therefore we should be careful with them. We Tableau #datafam folk are data storytellers, we love our tools and pretty vizzes, the nifty tricks that go into making them. We love all that so much, […]
In business life, learning from feedback is what we do. Every day. And when you build tools for others, that involves a process where you ask lots of questions before you start, while you do, and after you do. And then you iterate. Personally, I believe that this is one of the most important skills […]
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 […]
After a bit of a hiatus during which I concentrated on learning Python and the basics of data visualization in Python, I am back to MakeoverMonday — and maybe, just maybe, I’ll be able to catch up? I just finished reading *Good Charts* by **Scott Berinato**, and want to use the process of critiquing and […]
