Category: Data

Funnel Plots

As I continue to read through Stephen Few’s “Signal: Understanding What Matters in a World of Noise” there have been some new charts or techniques I’ve come across. In an attempt to understand their purpose on a deeper level (and implement them in my professional life), I’m on a mission to recreate them in Tableau. […]

Thoughts on sorting in Tableau

Now with video 🙂 Last week I ran into an interesting situation with Tableau.  I wanted to sort dimensions within larger dimensions by a measure.  After that sort, I wanted to encode an additional dimension on color.  Here’s what that would look like using Superstore: In the view I am looking at sub-categories by each […]

Me vs. ETL

I had a great moment today.  A moment where I felt like I conquered the beast known as “ETL.”  For those of you who don’t know (lucky you!) ETL stands for Extract, Transform, Load.  Like it suggests: it is the term used to move data around and taking elements from “raw” forms and making them usable […]

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. […]