by Eva Murray | Sep 9, 2019 | Tableau
There is a dataset we’ve had in our backlog for months and I’m excited that Andy decided to use it for this week. It’s about book checkouts at the Seattle Public Library, particularly those of work by James Patterson. James who? Due to the size of...
by Eva Murray | Sep 1, 2019 | Tableau
September 1st is the first day of autumn, meteorologically speaking. So I picked a dataset about how Americans feel about the different seasons. The original viz and data comes from YouGov and looks like this: What works well: It’s a simple bar chart that is...
by Eva Murray | Aug 26, 2019 | Makeover Monday, Tableau
For week 35 Andy picked a dataset about gaming and the shift from PCs and consoles to mobile. The original visualization looks like this: What works well: Nice distinct colors that are easy to differentiate from one another Sorted chronologically Title is informative...
by Eva Murray | Aug 19, 2019 | Makeover Monday, Tableau
I recently finished the book Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport. It’s brilliant and has led to a lot of re-evaluation on how I use technology, how I connect with people and who I stay in touch with. It also led to me deleting the last true social media app off my...
by Eva Murray | Aug 12, 2019 | Tableau
For week 33, Andy chose a fascinating dataset and topic which we were made aware of by Steve Wexler. Clinical trials for medical drugs are an interesting topic and one which I came across recently, but in the context of gender equality. At this point I want to...