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Archive of the posts written by author : Ben Jones.

How to Create a Tableau Waterfall Chart

As promised, here is a step-by-step guide on how to create a Waterfall chart in…

A Facebook Waterfall

With the recent Facebook IPO, Facebook had to open their books to investors, which you…

What do the Patriots Need From Brady?

Two weeks ago, Tom Brady threw for zero touchdowns and had a quarterback rating of…

Super Squares

Here’s some help for all of you out there interested in knowing (for one reason…

Can Presidents Forecast Unemployment?

(Updated 4/12/2012 – 2011 actual unemployment (8.9%) added. In the beginning of his presidency, Obama…

The Manchester Derby

Andy Kriebel at vizwiz.blogspot.com blogged recently about a remarkable result of a soccer (er, football)…

Gifts for the World

As a father of two elementary school age children, I found the survey responses posted…

How Data Visualization is Like Chess

Chess is a great game. If you’ve ever played chess, you know what I’m talking…

The Ins and Outs of California Finances

There has been much discussion in the Golden State of California about the state budget…

How to Win at Monopoly

(Update, 12/13/11: Download the Excel simulator file that was used to generate the frequencies here…