Category: Tableau
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Iterative Visual Design and The Choice Visual
Early last month, I published a series of new Tableau Public visualisations on the history of referendums in Australia, immediately prior to the latest Australian referendum vote on recognising Indigenous Australians in our constitution – commonly known as the referendum on The Voice to parliament (unfortunately, the vote failed but I’m not going to delve…
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Tableau Ironviz 2023 Qualifiers: Top 3 in Asia-Pacific & Top 15 Overall!
What an end to the year! I found out early this morning that I placed in the top 15 and third in the Asia-Pacific region in Tableau’s annual Iron Viz competition for my interactive visual essay on the evolution of the AFLW “The Blazing of the Trail“. Link to announcement from Tableau. If you weren’t…
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Reflections on Iron Viz 2023 Feeder Round & Three Lessons Learned
My first participation in Iron Viz Qualifier was a surreal experience. As I hit the submit button with 10 minutes left until the submission deadline, I felt both wrung out and exhilarated. Like someone had squeezed champagne out of a tea towel. Bizarre metaphors aside, Iron Viz was an odyssey but still an overwhelmingly positive…
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A Cost of Insecurity – Comparing Spending on Military Capability v the Human Development Index
One great thing about the company I work for is that they continually encourage us to develop our skills via monthly data visualisation challenges. The latest challenge was themed on ‘scatter plots’ and it was definitely one I wished to be a part of – I love scatter plots! Harking back to my postgraduate studies…
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Fun with sets: Highlighting/filtering data using a shared attribute of a selected value in Tableau
Have you ever wanted to be able to filter or highlight records in a Tableau visualisation that share a common attribute? For example, say you had a visualisation and a filter that listed animals. You select ‘kangaroo’, and the visualisation would filter for ‘kangaroo’ and all other marsupials – animals that share the same infraclass…
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The Land is a Map: On being awarded Viz of the Day
Last week I was fortunate enough to be awarded my first ever ‘Viz of the Day’ (or VOTD). The more expansive (and I think better version) of the visualisation can be found on my Tableau Public profile. If you don’t have a clue about what I’m talking about, Tableau – the purveyor of fine data…