Antichaos
Data Visualisation, Tableau & Data Services
Line charts are one of the best and popular ways to show how data has developed over time. It’s a simple graph that is familiar to anyone, but the default generated can often be improved – either in Tableau, Excel or any other tool.
In this blog post I want to show how a relative small change in a line chart can result in a big improvement.
[part of the ‘Datafam London 2024 – Deepcleaning your dashboard’ series]
[Read more…] about Line-chart: betters ways to compare years[part of the ‘Datafam London 2024 series]
In part 1 we took a look at a basic bar chart, and ended with the lollypop chart. A fun chart with one major issue: the dot obfuscates the real datapoint.
One solution for it the Punctuated Bar Chart:
We highlight the end of each bar, instead of enlarging the endpoint.
[part of the ‘Datafam London 2024 series]
On DataFam 2024 in London I gave a presentation / workshop on deep cleaning dashboards.
Dashboard cleaning is about: Removing, adding , re-arranging, and replacing stuff. In Tableau, it’s about: Table calculations, extra sheets, changing images, talking to users, being critical to yourself, … Is hard work – and a lot of fun!
[Read more…] about Deep Cleaning Barcharts – part 1: the basicsIt’s my personal yearly end-of-December Christmas tradition: visualizing the Top 2000 hitlist of NPO Radio 2 (a Dutch national radio station).
(you can also view the interactive visualization on Tableau Public)
[Read more…] about Top 2000 – Edition 2024: Snow GlobesYou can use to create your own Christmas Movie Marathon in Tableau using this dashboard!
Based on the IMDB dataset ‘100 best Christmas movies of all time’ and some nice Tableau techniques you can determine which movies you want to watch this holiday.
Start by entering the time you can spend on movies this holiday on Step 1 (from a couple of hours to several days), and then use step 2 to select all the movies you want to see during this time.
Selections can be made on plot, but also runtime, genre and/or IMDB rating.