Dot Plots
Today I was reading Stephen Few’s Information Dashboard Design aloud while Josh was doing some fall PC clean up and was on the chapter “An Ideal Library of Graphs.” As Stephen describes it there are several charts or graphs that should make their way onto dashboards and he goes into detail on the reason behind […]
Getting started in data
Continuing on the path I started the other day, here’s another blog post that I first wrote internally back in March of this year. The question: How do you think you can encourage more women in data? I think the toughest part of getting started in data is understanding the field and feeling confident working within […]
Quick and easy – parameters to aggregate dates
(Now with video – video uses different data as an example) One of my favorite uses of parameters is to dynamically change date aggregations without the pesky drill symbol. Sometimes I want to just see week or month, quarters tend to be pretty worthless. Especially if I’m doing something discrete, I really don’t like the […]
Data Analysis – First Steps
Earlier in the year (March), I participated in a panel discussion for a data+women series at the Phoenix TUG. As prep I was given a list of questions and asked to pick a few I felt comfortable answering. To facilitate the sharing of my experiences, I wrote a blog post on some of the more […]
#IronViz Entry – Mobile Design
Part of being involved in the Tableau community means publicly publishing visualizations to learn and grow. It’s also a great way to find inspiration. As I’ve pushed myself to be more active within the local Phoenix Tableau community and social (Twitter) community, I knew it was time to “step up” and make an Iron Viz. […]
Blog post ideas
Ann How Apple Watch has changed my life How tracking calories has changed my life Why is my life always changing (har har) New books Walk through improvements on micro viz Revamp D+W posts Tableau – continuous fields from discrete values for heat maps Josh Starting a home automation system Hobby photography Stretch project – […]
Saturday night reading
Tonight we’re reading Stephen Few’s Information Dashboard Design.
Low carb brownies
One of the biggest struggles of a low carbohydrate lifestyle is sweets/desserts. At least in my mind, sweet is synonymous with carbohydrates. The easiest way to remedy this is typically by using artificial sweeteners. But those sweeteners alone don’t usually satisfy food that is traditionally associated with dessert. Enter eggs into the equation. Eggs are […]
The home automation mindset
Home automation is something that I have been following for several years. I think we all have seen automation on TV. Bill Gates’ house with music and pictures that follow you around in the 90s. For me, it is about getting to Star Trek level of voice control with automation that does what I want […]
Writing on the phone
Here is what creating blog posts is like from my phone. I have also added in a phone picture below: