The days are getting longer. The weather is getting warmer. The ice is beginning to thaw. You know what this means? The greatest time of year is right around the corner! Summer time is almost here, and with it comes baseball season! To commemorate my favorite...
A few years ago, I decided to try to count all of the database products that were available. After spending several hours on a Friday evening trying to count all of them, I gave up at around 2 a.m., having counted 200. I classified them...
The NCAA March Madness Tournament is known for upsets. Each year, there are a few low-seeded teams that come out of nowehere and surprise everyone. It's called March Madness for a reason. But how deep do these underdog teams really go in the tournament? Using Tableau,...
Each year, Tableau holds several contests to find participants for the annual Iron Viz competition. The first one of 2015 is the Wiki Data Viz Contest. In the past, I’ve had trouble finding an idea, so I never entered anything. This time, I connected a...
There are plenty of perks that come with being an InterWorks employee. You get to work with an awesome team, you get to work at some of the best possible clients and you’re surrounded by people who are genuinely interested in your personal and professional...
Super Bowl XLIX is almost here. In just a few days, the New England Patriots will take on the Seattle Seahawks in Glendale, AZ. Will the Seahawks win their second Super Bowl in a row, which would also be their second Super Bowl victory ever,...
A couple weeks ago, I came across a College Football Playoff blog post that mapped the distance of each team’s campus to each player's hometown. While detailed and visually appealing, you could not interact with the map – making it impossible to do more detailed...
Of the hundreds of data visualizations I’ve seen, only a few stand out as exceptionally striking. The design, subject and uniqueness all come together perfectly. One of them is the animated Wind Map at Hint.fm. I can practically feel the air moving along the smooth, sweeping...
In this post, we'll have a little fun with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or BJJ for short. I recently began training in BJJ at the Renzo Gracie Academy in Portland, OR. I feel very fortunate to have found a facility full of great people to be around,...
The Challenge Visualize movement from Date A to Date B with one dimension and two measures. More specifically, display how these measures interact with each other and affect the outcome or performance of the dimension over time. This problem was posed to me by one of...
Typical day-to-day analysis is focused on things that have happened in recent days, months or years. We seldom go far enough into the past to make us think about what to do with dates prior to “date zero” (normally, January 1, 1900). That is unless...
On election night every two years, major news organization compete for the best presentation of vote results. Data consumers are particularly drawn to red and blue colored maps. In recent years, there have been some impressive variations on mapping techniques, many of them aimed at...
On election night every two years, major news organization compete for the best presentation of vote results. Data consumers are particularly drawn to red and blue colored maps. In recent years, there have been some impressive variations on mapping techniques, many of them aimed at...
For those of us who cannot live without both the internet and NFL football, Sunday afternoons no longer involve staring at just one screen. The television is dedicated to the game, my phone is dedicated to fantasy football and my laptop is for Reddit game...
Last time out, I created a very simple and straightforward dashboard based on my family’s finances up to this point in the year. You can find that original dashboard here. While I’m all about making things less complicated than they need to be, I thought it...
It’s that time of year again. The days are getting shorter, the weather is getting cooler and the end of Daylight Savings Time is right around the corner. Essentially, for people like me, life is going to suck until summer comes back around. But, there...
Because I have just that much free time, I thought I’d take a gander at my spending so far this year using Tableau. The holiday shopping season is coming up, and I wanted to know if I would have any money left to fill stockings...
TC14 is only a few short weeks away, which means it’s time to get your conference agenda in order. Conference week will be packed with incredible breakout sessions, keynote speeches and all sorts of fun activities. With so many options, it becomes a real challenge...
In preparation for the Big 12's nineteenth season, I put together a quick Tableau 8.2 workbook showing historical stats for all Big 12 teams. The workbook is highly interactive, so make sure to click on the images below to go to Tableau Public to play...
If you’re a sports fan like me, the next few weeks can seem like an eternity. The World Cup and NBA Finals are over, and the baseball playoffs have not yet started. Thus, we are left with three long weeks of waiting for the college...
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