Everyone knows Charles Minard (French civil engineer) for his very famous "La carte figurative des pertes successives en hommes de l'armée française dans la campagne de Russie 1812-1813"; in plain English the map shows Napoleon's armies disastrous losses during the Russian campaign. I re-created this map in 2018, I really like this map but also took this as a challenge... Continue Reading →
How do I get started with Data visualisation and Tableau as a beginner?
When I teach Tableau at QUT, my local University or when I post visualisations online, I often get asked, “How do I get started with Data visualisation and Tableau as a beginner?". I hope the resources below would be useful to get you started. Firstly well done for having a go. Tableau is a great... Continue Reading →
My 1000 Runs – Mapping 1000 Runkeeper runs – 10 years of Blood, Sweat & Tears #VOTD
I love running and I love Tableau so I made a dashboard full of runs. This post describes how I have made this Tableau data visualisation. It ended with Tableau Viz of The Day, great honor too! Data Firstly you need to run or walk A LOT and track your activities with a GPS... Continue Reading →
Viz For Social Good with Sunny Street datathon recap
On 19 March 2020, 35 Brisbane Data enthusiasts got together to help Sunny Street make a bit more sense of their data. This was the very first Viz For Social Good event in Australia, we made history! Viz for Social Good helps mission-driven organisations to promote social good and understand their own data through beautiful and... 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 →