From GPS to Viz: Hiking Washington’s Trails

Since moving to the Seattle area in early 2013, we’ve been doing our best as…

Story Types: A Thought-Starter

{Note: a version this blog post was also published on the Tableau Public blog as…

Six Principles of Communicating Data: A Checklist

In a section of the first chapter of Communicating Data with Tableau (O’Reilly, 2014) I…

Now Available: Communicating Data with Tableau

I’m excited to announce that my first book, Communicating Data with Tableau, has been published…

In Defense of Intuition

Intuition is under fire Two months ago I saw a television commercial for Business Intelligence…

Dimension Line Charts: a (slight) variation on arrow charts

Arrow charts are an effective way of showing how values changed from one point in…

Earthquakes, Los Angeles, and Being Shallow

Last night I was analyzing earthquake data from the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program. When I…

Visualizing History

{Update, Feb 6th, 2014: I’ll be showing how to make the U.S. president dashboard below…

A Better Periodic Table?

I went to SeaVis after work today, and I spent some time looking at something…

An NBA Fantasy Dashboard

2013 was an amazing year for me, in many ways. One thing that happened to…