by Eva Murray | Jan 13, 2020 | Makeover Monday, Tableau
A few weeks ago I came across a fascinating and terrifying research paper that detailed just how much pesticide use there is in the US, particularly using chemicals that are banned in many other countries because they are deemed unsafe for humans. The paper contains a...
by Eva Murray | Jan 6, 2020 | Tableau
For his first dataset, Charlie picked the topic of how popular different American sports are with spectators. Here is the original viz from Vox.com What works well: A nice and simple chart Lines are labeled I like the focus on the top 3 Colors are easy to...
by Eva Murray | Dec 29, 2019 | Makeover Monday, Tableau
So it has arrived, Andy’s last week as co-host of #MakeoverMonday. After 4 years of running this project (first with Andy Cotgreave, then with me), he is handing over the baton to Charlie to focus on other life projects. For his last dataset choice, Andy selected data...
by Eva Murray | Dec 22, 2019 | Makeover Monday, Tableau
My last dataset for this year falls into Christmas week, so after a little convincing from Andy I set aside the data I had originally planned to use and picked a simple Christmas spending dataset from the Deloitte Christmas Survey 2019. Here is the original viz: What...
by Eva Murray | Dec 16, 2019 | Makeover Monday, Tableau
For this week, Andy chose a Basketball dataset. My expertise on that topic is limited to the claim of coming from the same town as the 6-time German champion team Brose Baskets. I went to see one of their games and all I remember is that it was really loud and fast...