UK Weather – 140 Years Visualised!
With our interesting November weather it couldn't be a better time to look at how our weather has changed in the last 140 years...
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How to Make Bubble Charts
Flowing data posted nice and clear instructions on how to make bubble charts using R. It's a great post, and I thought it would be a good thing to show how to create the same chart in Tableau. Readers can compare and contrast the ease...
The Joy of Six: One Against the Rest
This is the third post on simple tricks that are available in version 6. This one represents a common request we get. The client says "I want to compare the performance of x against everyone else." What is x? Well, it could be Customers, Departments,...
The Joy of Six: Add an “About” Box
You may have seen my response to an Information is Beautiful post. Here's the viz I used in that post: Wikipedia banner testsThe effectiveness of donation appeals on Wikipedia Powered by Tableau This uses sheet tabs to create an "About this viz" tab. It is good practise...
Happy birthday #FridayMix
Those of you who follow me on twitter (@acotgreave) will probably know that most Fridays I get involved in the rathe excellent FridayMix. This week it reaches its first birthday. I downloaded the full list of all 3500+ tracks that have appeared on a FridayMix...
UK Budget Cuts
Following the budget cuts announced yesterday by George Osbourne I, like I'm sure many of you, have been trying to get to grips with what these cuts will mean for the country going forward. Clicking through some of the reaction on the BBC new website...
US Sexual Health and Behaviour Survey
Flowing Data laid down the challenge to visual the sexual health and behaviour dataset from Indiana University. Seemed like an interesting topic...
Flowing data: sexual health survey – get the data
Flowing Data have announce a new Visualise This exercise. The data on the site is only available as an image. For those who want an XLS of the data, here it is! Sexual health survey...
London 2012 ticket prices
London 2012 published the Olympic ticket prices today. There's lots of good value seats to be had. I took the data from the London 2012 site and built this viz that you can use to find out how much your favourite sport will cost you: Note:...
Bonfire of the Quangos
The government today published details of which quangos they are going to abolish. It's pretty ruthless. Here's an interactive viz using data from the Guardian Data Blog: Bonfire of the quangos Powered by Tableau Click on the Share button above to embed the viz in your own...
Interflora v Marks & Spencer AdWords
I see that Interflora is suing M&S over the latter's keyword piggy-back tactic. I notice that this is also happening in the Fast Analytics world: ...
The Data Studio – Award Winners!
Congratulations to our Business Intelligence Consultant Darren Evans, whose visualisation for World Aid Donors and Receivers was voted most Beautiful Visualisation This Week on the Tableau Public website. Tableau Public is a free application from Tableau Software, which allows anyone interested in publishing data visualisations...
Visualising Golf Tournament Results
Warning! This post discusses disc golf. If you’ve not heard of it, just imagine I’m referring to “normal” golf. The US Disc Golf Championships, the world’s toughest, and richest event is happening this week. The leaderboard's on the PDGA.com, and on the USDGC sites are ok,...
Telecoms companies: who’s suing who?
There’s a chart doing the rounds that shows who is suing whom in the telecoms industries (eg at the Guardian). David McCandelish has improved it nicely here, and asked the question of whether companies who’s revenue is going down are more litigious than those on...
Charts inside a tooltip? Yes, we can.
[Update: in theory, v6.1.1 has made it easier to create the bars described in this post by using REPLACE() and SPACE(). However, at time of writing (19 Aug 2011) there is a problem: while the solution works fine in Tableau Desktop, the view won't display...
Triple bogeys in golf: your fault or the course designer’s?
I played in the Croydon Cyclone last weekend, a part of the British Disc Golf Association national tour. One hole's layout was controversial. It's short, a distance that almost any player can reach from the tee. The designers spiced things up by surrounding the basket...
Put The Fizz In Business Intelligence
Would you like a bottle of Dom Perignon 2000 vintage champagne? If so, read on. There are many things that make working in a business intelligence consultancy enormously satisfying: + you’re presented with a constant stream of fresh, interesting and stimulating challenges + you get to meet some truly great...
World Aid – Donors and Receivers
With the UN MDG summit underway in New York, Jonathan Glennie of The Guardian has an interesting blog looking at countries contributing to world aid and the countries receiving aid. The blog contains the following visualisation looking at donators and receivers of aid in 2007:...
UK Tableau Users Group Meeting, 27th Oct, 2010
The Data Studio team are back from an amazing conference in Seattle (we’ll put some pictures up soon!). Next up, we will be taking a trip up to lovely London town to meet up with some of the many other keen users of Tableau. Our...
Mercury prize winners: the XX
The XX won the Mercury Prize last night. It's a great album. I personally would have preferred Wild Beasts or the Villagers, but they were a little "out there" for a thinly-veiled sales generator. You can see my Mercury Prize Tableau viz below (or click...
