Makeover Monday Week 8 – Potatoes in the EU

I’ll say this first – I don’t eat potatoes.  Although potatoes are super tasty, I refuse to have them as part of my diet.  So I was less than thrilled about approaching a week that was pure potato (especially coming off the joy of Valentine’s Day).  Nonetheless – it presented itself with a perfect opportunity […]

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. […]

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 […]