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The Self-Funding Guide to Tableau Conference
This year’s Tableau Conference is over; 8,000 people are back home and most of them are hopefully inspired and energised or have at least learned some valuable new thing about Tableau and data. For me it was the 3rd Tableau Conference I attended and the 3rd time I fully self-funded my trip. If you had…
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Becoming Data-Driven through UX – The Power of Empathy
This is a summary of my presentation at TC23 of the same title, while it was prepared for a Tableau event, it is entirely tool independent; in fact all aspects of it apply similarly to any other solutions you would want to design, websites, apps, products, etc. Below you’ll find a written summary of the…
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Building Physical Maps…with LEGO
This post first appeared in the Data Visualization Society’s Medium publication “Nightingale” as part of their “Data Sensification” series. The content is the same with the exception of a little update at the end. In the beginning of 2020 I decided to attempt using LEGO bricks as a map-building material for a map of Aotearoa…
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New Zealand LEGO Map
People sometimes have weird ideas. This was definitely one of them. I didn’t even set out to build a LEGO map of New Zealand…it just happened. In January this year I was working on something completely unrelated, based on a quick map I did a bit earlier. I had created a map in Tableau but…
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When can a line be a bar?
When you work in Data Visualisation, there is no way around bar and line charts! They are arguably the most fundamental and versatile graphs out there. They are so versatile that Tableau’s Andy Cotgreave formulated a law around them: The longer an innovative visualization exists, the probability someone says it should have been a line/bar…
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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…