Yesterday I attended a PowerBi full day training session. Below are my first impressions as a Tableau enthusiast. Comparing these two tools is not an easy task and might not be very valuable to compare anyway, so treat this as my pure impressions. And try yourself to form your own opinion! I have often seen... Continue Reading →
Tableau community spotlight
It is pretty cool to be showcased in this Tableau community spotlight blog Thanks Micheal
Viz for Social Good with Sunny Street – Use your Data skills for a cause
If you are a data enthusiast and keen to use your skills for a cause, this could be for you I’m starting up the very first Viz For Social Good Chapter in Australia, here in Brisbane. Viz For Social Good helps organisations to promote social good and understand their own data through beautiful and informative... Continue Reading →
Highlighting Australia’s First Nation people issues with Tableau data visualisation
I love Tableau data story telling capabilities Below is a collection of my Tableau work highlighting issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia Twitter moment
Datafam Collaboration Project. Behind the collaboration of the Freds
How did this collaboration start? It started on Twitter on 17 of January when FN (Fred Najjar @FredrickNajjar) send to FF (Frederic Fery @Fredffery), “hey man, well done on your iron quest viz” …. then a few messages and Thumbs up later, FF sent back, “happy to collaborate”, we are in.. That’s it, the coalition... Continue Reading →
Testing bar chart race
I really love bar charts, they are very simple to read and understand. When you make them race, they are even better. This doesn't work for everything be cautious. Tableau cant really do this out the box as well. I tried with Tableau Alpha, but the animation for the race does't work when you publish... Continue Reading →
My first Tableau Viz of the Day VOTD
As often, I'm always very keen to learn and get involved in data visualisation community activities. This month I decided to participate in the "DataViz Battle for the month of October 2019: Visualize the Jump-Scares for over 500 horror, thriller, and sci-fi Movies" organised on the dataisbeautiful site To my surprise I was selected Viz... Continue Reading →
Lessons learned from a bruising experience posting to Reddit
If not prepared, Reddit could be quite brutal (or people commenting on it), but it is partly due to my own mistakes. This is a summary of my bruising experience posting to Reddit and things I have learned along the way! To explain how it started, after finishing my IronViz Refugees work, I decided to... Continue Reading →
Moon landing 50th anniversary Tableau Challenge
Moon landing 50th anniversary Tableau Challenge Here are the vizzes, thanks everyone! Filippo Mastroianni https://public.tableau.com/profile/filippo.mastroianni#!/vizhome/TotheMoonMars-Historyofspaceexploration/MissionsSchema Andy Holt https://public.tableau.com/profile/andy.holt#!/vizhome/Missionstothemoon/Missionstothemoon Boglarka Bihari https://public.tableau.com/profile/boglarka.bihari#!/vizhome/Luna_15644050266410/Dashboard Ingrid Arreola https://public.tableau.com/profile/ingrid.arreola#!/vizhome/MissiontotheMoon/JourneytotheMoon?publish=yes Baljinnyam Enkhtur https://public.tableau.com/profile/deepdata#!/vizhome/TableauMoonChallenge/Dashboard1 Kasia Gasiewska-Holc https://public.tableau.com/profile/kasia.gasiewska.holc#!/vizhome/FlymetotheMoon/FlymetotheMoon Marco Motta https://public.tableau.com/profile/marco.motta6791#!/vizhome/USAMoonMissions1960-1973/USAMoonMissions Frederic Fery https://public.tableau.com/profile/fredfery#!/vizhome/DataMoonChallenge-Spaceinvader/Spaceinvaders?publish=yes The team behind this: Kasia - @bluedilphia Frederic -... Continue Reading →
Why do I think Tableau rocks?
Updated 24/12/2021 Disclaimer: I don’t own any Tableau Salesforce shares (may be I should) and I don’t work for Tableau (may be I should) or work in the data field (may be ...) Since Oct 2021, I have started to work for Big W (retail chain in Australia) as a Data Visualisation Manager and lucky... Continue Reading →