This post steps through how to create labels on highlighted marks only, helping to keep your chart uncluttered but still allowing easy comparisons.
Creating Labels on Highlighted Marks
Travel Planner & Emissions Calculator
This post highlights some of the techniques used in this travel planner dashboard that allows you to draw out two routes on a map, select the methods of transport and then compare them by distance and carbon emissions.
Creating a dot-dash-plot in Tableau
This post steps through how to create Edward Tufte's dot-dash-plot in Tableau, increasing the data-ink ratio of a standard scatter plot and revealing more insights.
Reflections on the #30DayChartChallenge
The #30DayChartChallenge ran for the first time in April 2021. This post gives a high-level overview of the challenge, my learnings and links to all the data sources I used.
Creating Charts within a Hexmap
In this guest blog post Tamás Varga explains how you can create charts within a hexmap; a technique he used for a recent #MakeoverModay visualisation. Tamás also shares some of his design process and sources of inspiration.
Creating a Selection Panel with Parameter Actions
This post walks through how to create a selection panel using parameter actions, storing all selected items in the same parameter and giving feedback when the max number of items have been selected.
Creating a Small Multiples Chart of Energy Usage
A small multiples chart helps to compare the same measures across multiple dimension values. This blog walks through how to create one in Tableau using Row and Column calculations.
Tour de France and Radial Charts
For this month's #SportsVizSunday and #SWDchallenge I created two radial charts as the basis for a bike themed Tour de France visualisation
Coral Reefs of Indonesia
For this month's #IronQuest, I take a look at geographic data on the amazing but sadly under threat Coral Reefs of Indonesia.
Creating a Selection Panel with Set Actions
How to create a selection panel - of 25 rows by 2 columns - to make selections which are used to highlight elements in a bump chart.
Creating Pagination in Tableau
This blog post walks through how to create pagination in Tableau for this week's #WorkoutWednesday challenge.
Workout Wednesday 2019 Week 6 – ‘Tree Charts’
This blog post walks through my approach to the Workout Wednesday challenge for 2019 Week 6, looking at 'Tree Charts'.
Chinese New Year and Thanksgiving – how do they compare?
A recap of Makeover Monday 2019 Week 6, looking at metrics around Chinese New Year and Thanksgiving. #Tableau #Mobile
Workout Wednesday 2019 Week 4 – Tracking Headcount
Workout Wednesday 2019 Week 4 - Tracking Headcount, with a focus on data preparation in Tableau.
Workout Wednesday 2019 Week 3 – Rugby League
A high-level walk-through of how I approached the #WorkoutWednesday2019 Week 3 Tableau challenge, which looked at 2018 Rugby League data.
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