I presented at September 2020 Brisbane Tableau User Group alongside Mark Jeffrey from Griffith University and Ronak Mathur, the President of QUT Business Analysis and Data Science Club.
I presented some of the background to the visualisation I presented at the Virtual Refugee Conference in June 2020.
Thanks to Frederic Fery and Key Data for inviting me to speak.
I was a late submission to the latest #VizForSocialGood round but I did manage to finish off a visualisation that made extensive use of an interactive network diagram.
I’ll be writing much more about how I did this in the near future and will update this post. Want to give a quick shout out to this very helpful tutorial by Christopher Conn of The Data Surfers which this visualisation shares heritage with.
Click on the image below to link through to the viz on Tableau Public!
My entry for the latest #VizForSocialGood Project, examining internally displaced persons and climate change. This was done ahead of the Virtual Refugee Conference during Refugee Week.
I was very happy that my visualisation was chosen as one of the featured visualisations amongst a strong field of participants.
Viz for Social Good is a social enterprise that uses data visauliastion to open up conversation on key issues facing our world. From their website:
… Read the restEmpowering nonprofits through data story
We help mission-driven organizations to promote social good and understand their own data through beautiful and informative
Given that I’m a vegetarian, this week’s #MakeoverMonday was particularly relevant. We were asked to visualise some data regarding animal-free consumption in Great Britain.
Here’s my effort, actually done in an hour for once!
Click on the image below to see the interactive (or click here).
The original visualisation is below.
There are many things I find objectionable about this visualisation. While I often personally use these types of stacked bar charts, this one is sloppy. For instance, the Y axis goes to 125%. The legend might be better off at the top as well.
COVID-19 induced isolation has been good to me in terms of getting time to do some Tableau work. I had my heart set on completing my first ever Iron Quest submission. This months theme was the “Quantified Self”. As soon as I read about the theme, I immediately knew what I wanted to visualise: the cycling history.
For those not in the know Iron Quest is an initiative begun by Sarah Bartlett. Sarah describes it on her website as:
… Read the restIron Quest is a monthly community-led data visualization project which follows a similar format to
Randomly, I was looking for some arrival and departure data for international students in Australia, seeking to test the theory that there had not been any mass scale departures of overseas students since Australia declared a COVID19 a pandemic.
Somewhat conincidentally, Professor Andrew Norton tweeted this chart literally hours earlier.
ABS international student arrivals data shows the decline since February and the importance of the mid-year intake. https://t.co/Ip2GlbIStw pic.twitter.com/kOP8Xb6VEp
— Andrew Norton (@andrewjnorton) May 13, 2020
I was immediately alerted to the existence of a brand new ABS dataset. I quickly did a bit of data wrangling/shaping and uploaded … Read the rest