data & humans
Sarka talked live on the internet!
I did two webinars on visual analytics in August and September 2020. And I have to say, I’m pretty proud of them. The first one focused on (science-based) arguments why good visual analytics matters. The second one was more about dashboarding and tons of great inspiration.
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At the end of last year, I’ve heard someone talking about their resume done in Tableau. I was intrigued. How is it done? What does it look like? The interactivity achieved with filters, tooltips and highlighters must be awesome! It wasn’t until a few weeks ago when I saw a colleague of mine liking someone’s post on LinkedIn about their resume on Tableau Public. Thanks, Alex*, for liking the post and thanks to Priscila Santana, whose resume was my inspiration.
Continue reading “Semi-Circle / Curved Line Chart in Tableau”
What’s the biggest difference between doing data analysis for a client and doing it for yourself? The data part.
Continue reading “From data mining to data magic”
My story behind Women & Movies is short: “Women are underrepresented in the movies.” – “That’s not true; there are so many movies with female leads!” – “Ok, name ten.” – “Ms Marvel.” And cut.
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As for other ‘custom’ charts in Tableau, the right data structure is the key. Also, thinking the visualisation through beforehand helps a lot as well. Drawing, rethinking, redrawing is a good thing.
Continue reading “Spider Web / Radar Chart in Tableau (+ data normalisation)”
When I was browsing Tableau dashboards on their blog, this one got me. I instantly fell in love with it’s clean and simple design yet intriguing insight. Fresh colours, easy-to-read charts and lots of extra, hidden information in tooltips. But it was the cubes and filters what made me try something at least a bit similar.
Continue reading “Tableau Prep Builder & Tableau 2019.2”
I really wanted to make a radial bar chart, and as I have parsed some data from my Health App already, I was (quite) ready to go for those visualisations.
Continue reading “Tableau Radial Pie Gauge & Radial Bar Charts”
Have you ever checked Health App on your iPhone? Have you ever wondered how to get data from that app? Have you ever thought about making a nice Tableau dashboard out of it? I have, so I did. Continue reading “XML Parsing with Python”
I found some pretty interesting data here and here and here and decided to visualize it. I should have been doing something else but I didn’t want to. I wanted to see a dashboard. Procrastination level data-lover.
Continue reading “How many hours do you have to work to get a gram of cocaine? (Or a bottle of beer?)”
Working with a Terminal (Command Line) makes me feel cool. Like a hacker. Or a proper IT gal. Like someone who knows what they’re doing. 🙂
When I find new toys to play with, I prepare a proper playground. It’s called a virtual environment and it’s pretty useful. But why? What is it good for?
Continue reading “Setting Up Python Virtual Environment (on Mac)”