by Eva Murray | Aug 13, 2018 | Tableau
Anthony Bourdain – yes he is a legend and his recent death upset food-loving travelers across the globe. I wasn’t his biggest fan and certainly didn’t agree with enthusiasm for eating animals, but he was an influential personality and I’m sure...
by Eva Murray | Aug 5, 2018 | Makeover Monday, Tableau
This week’s viz was sent to me by Sarah Bartlett with a ‘WTF’ kinda message and I have to agree. I have seen a lot of bad vizzes and this one has to be in the top 10.We’re looking at what countries spend on Research & Development, data...
by Eva Murray | Jul 31, 2018 | Tableau
This week we’re working on the dataset behind the Big Mac Index. Many from the community will be familiar with the topic because it featured in this year’s Ironviz Europe contest.A few weeks ago, Andy Cotgreave introduced us to the data team at the...
by Eva Murray | Jul 28, 2018 | Life stuff
In a recent conversation with a friend it became clear to me that too often we think there isn’t enough of something, resulting in jealousy and envy, leading to negative thoughts and behaviours. Is it justified? Most of the time the scarcity we have in our mind...
by Eva Murray | Jul 22, 2018 | Tableau
In the past few days I noticed a number of discussions on social media around maternity and parental leave in different countries and, more specifically, the lack of paid maternity leave in the US. So I chose a dataset that shows the number of weeks of maternity and...