While working hard on a busy weekend, I decided to take a “break” from our upcoming book and client work to spend 30 minutes to help and surprise a newer user of Tableau- social media expert Justin Flitter of New Zealand. He is new to Tableau Public and had started off with a look at some social media metrics by country. Here is a snapshot of his initial work: Read the rest of this entry »
After reviewing his initial workbook
Helping a social media expert- just 30 minutes with Tableau
US Federal Government Debt- Which Presidents have managed it best since 1970?
We just launched a new website to share analysis of this critical topic at http://www.usdeficitstats.com/.
Dashboards podcast for journalists- ideas & examples with Journalytics
Episode Overview: Hosted by Journalytics, we discuss the utilities and pleasantries of Data Visualization and Dashboards. During our conversation we discuss several specific examples of dashboards in the news. Click here to listen on the Journalytics web site.
Stephen Few versus David McCandless- we should leave playing doctor to the children
Here is my response to Nathan’s article, “Business intelligence vs. infotainment“, on Flowing Data. Nathan’s article was in response to Stephen’s earlier article on Perceptual Edge, “Teradata, David McCandless, and yet another detour for analytics“.
We should leave “playing doctor” to the children
In considering this great debate, perhaps we should step back and consider another field, medicine. For centuries, medicine was guided by wishes, fantasy and misguided ideas of what would heal people. One of my favorite examples is “trephining” (drilling holes in your head) to release the evil spirits that have made the patient ill. Of course, for a very small percent of patients, this proved helpful. However, most ended up no better and typically much worse for their procedure.
I feel that McCandless work is “fun” and vibrant, but
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MIT Sloan Review, don’t allow pies to obscure the “New Intelligence” you hope to share
I was very interested to read the survey results from MIT about data access challenges facing business analysts. The article states that “The New Intelligent Enterprise… will allow you to do some immediate benchmarking — and see how your organization is doing in relation to your peers.” While I am certain the data from this survey can indeed be useful in meeting their objective, I am also certain that their initial chart selection makes this difficult to easily see and understand.
In an effort to demonstrate how they can make their upcoming report much more informative
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Examining data over time, part 1- Netflix stock price history presented 7 ways
It is fascinating how much information you can uncover with just a few years of price data in Tableau. In this example, we use just two data items to examine the history of Netflix stock price (NASDAQ NFLX.) The data items used are date and closing price, adjusted for splits.
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