Category: Visualisation
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A new take on international education student enrolment data by region: Experimenting with Tableau mapping
The Department of Education, Skills and Employment provide the international education sector in Australia with a large amount of very useful data on international students studying within our borders. Much of it is provided in a number of formats – from pivot tables made available through Austrade’s Market Information Package to a range of data…
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Americans at Peace and War | #MakeOverMonday 2020 Week 6
Two weeks in a row now that I’ve managed to get something done for MakeOverMonday. This week’s challenge had us rearranging the visuals of this Washington Post article by Philip Bump titled “Nearly a quarter of Americans have never experienced the U.S. in peace time“. I’d been procrastinating all week, checking out many great vizzes…
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Leave our Bond alone? | #MakeOverMonday 2020 Week 5
So I finally managed to grab some free time to contribute something to the MakeOverMonday social data project. I’ve been a fan for many years and have often wanted to contribute – and finally I’ve done something that I’m relatively happy with. This is my data story analysing potential attitudes to changes in the James…
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Tableau tricks: Adding colour to geomaps by continent or region
Tableau is a great tool for data visualisation. One major selling point of the product is its excellent mapping tools which make building visualisation fun and interpreting data a hell of a lot easier than in a flat table. Recently, I was attempting to replicate a neat visualisation I saw on the Guardian’s data blog.…