Author: Alex
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Data Visualisation is not (only) about creating charts!
The other day I realised something! It wasn’t a very innovative thought but it helped me to better contextualise what I (and most others who will read this) do. When talking about data visualisation, the first thought which comes to many peoples minds is “creating charts”; that’s – understandably – what many people associate with…
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#TC18 – not your ordinary conference!
#TC18 ended more than a week ago and by now I had some time to reflect the experience attending my first Tableau Conference. It was a great experience and I plan to attend again next year, so much is clear! It wasn’t only my first Tableau Conference, it was my first conference in general and…
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Triangles in Data Visualisation
I recently gave a guest lecture at the University of Auckland for the Data Visualisation Students. Andrew Eberhard, the lecturer, asked me to talk about myself and my background, my job and the industry, data visualisation in general and Tableau in particular. It was a bit strange to actually describe my job and how the…
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Project Maestro – Delivering on Alteryx promises
Ever since one of my contacts at Tableau mentioned Project Maestro, I was keen to get my hands on it to see how data transformation can – hopefully – seamlessly be integrated with data visualisation. Now, since the first beta versions have been released I wanted to write down my initial thoughts as somebody who…
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Everybody’s a Hacker
This post is based on a presentation that I originally created for the Auckland Tableau User Group (#AKLTUG) in December 2016 and then extended for the Tableau Fringe Festival APAC (#TFFAPAC) in August 2017. It’s best consumed as what it is: a talk! So I encourage you to watch the recording of the #TFFAPAC talk…
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Responsibility in data visualisation
This weeks #MakeoverMonday was all about dietary requirements. A really simple data set about the percentage of people in the different regions of the world who follow certain special diets (kosher, low sugar, dairy free, etc.). While working on it I started thinking about the message I communicate and how that relates to any other…
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r/IsDataBeautiful?
Stephen Few recently published an article titled “Data Is Not Beautiful”. Apart from the title, which is an obvious reference to the subreddit r/DataIsBeautiful, Randal S. Olson (one of the Moderators of the subreddit) also mentioned that they were in discussion with Stephen to do an AMA (ask me anything) but he declined. It’s a fair…