VizWiz

• Vertical groupings work well for comparisons
• Using more pronounced colors for the companies and greying out the comparators
• Nice filtering options
• Title and subtitle are simple and tell us what the viz is about
• Good labeling
• Including a white divider line at 50%
• Including sort options

• Including the gender breakdown as well as the ethnicity breakdown in the same chart makes it feel too cluttered.
• As the years are set as filters, it's overly difficult to see if companies are becoming more or less diverse over time.
• Are the logos necessary?

• Focused on the gender diversity
• Chose a simple dot plot to make the viz less cluttered
• Included a more impactful title
• Kept their background color, but used a different color for highlighting

• The title above the charts tells us the insights in the data. This is a very effective technique.
• The colors work well together.
• Labels for the ages are well-placed and colored to represent the lines
• Labeling the start and end of the lines
• Hiding the axis but still leaving the axis title
• Including the note about the 2016 data

• Remove the title at the very top, the entire blue section
• Make the footer less prominent; it's competing with the viz for attention when it should be secondary
• Kill the bar chart; it looks strange have axis labels for every five years, but then only showing the data for a set of years
• Remove the dots on the lines except for the start, end and where the lines cross
• Remove the vignette shading behind the charts

• I like the idea behind the line chart, so I used that as my starting point.
• I pivoted the data by age, then created age groups that match the original (under 18 and 65+).
• I wanted to compare ages and origins for the two age groups to see if the crossing of the populations is consistent (spoiler, it's not).
• I wanted to add focus to the year the lines cross. I did that by adding a black dot on that year and by including a reference line.
• I kept the labeling of the start and end of each line.

Overall, I find the patterns in the data really interesting. 

1. While the population in total gradually shifts towards the older generation, the split between hispanic and non-hispanic does not follow the same pattern. 
2. Older hispanics will likely outnumber hispanic children between 2070 and 2075, whereas non-hispanic older people will outnumber non-hispanic children much sooner.
3. The female population is shifting much more quickly to the older generation than males.

With that, here's my Makeover Monday for week 45.

I added in a Viz in Tooltip in the treemap to practice those as well. In my tooltip, I have colored the bars that are unprofitable by the color of the category.

• The design of the responses as a stacked bar chart is easy to understand.
• The responses are ordered from highest to lowest.
• Women and men are assigned difference colors in the text
• Good title and subtitles
• Colors are easy enough to distinguish

• Comparisons between women and men in the same categories are hard to make
• Maybe there could be an easier way to distinguish between poo and pee

• Do something quick (like 10 minutes); I'm late for MM for the first time ever, but it's ok because I'm on holiday with my Dad and Brother.
• Make the comparisons easier
• Use colors that are a bit easier to associate to the men and women categories

Tableau Public is the heart and soul of Tableau. Tableau Public is THE BOND that holds the Community together. Tableau Public is THE PLATFORM for sharing our work. Tableau Public is THE SOURCE for getting inspiration from others.

Without Tableau Public, learning, sharing, and exploring would be significantly more challenging.

Without Tableau Public, there would be no Makeover Monday. There would be no Makeover Monday book. There would be far less people improving their skills week by week. There would be far less engagement within in the Community. The thousands of people that have participated, never would have engaged. If there was no Tableau Public, would these people have ever found Tableau?

Without Tableau Public there would be no Viz for Social Good. There would be no Workout Wednesday. There would be no Sports Viz Sunday. Without Tableau Public there would be far fewer people practicing data visualization and data analysis week after week through these Community projects.

Without Tableau Public there would far fewer friendships born out of a common love for data. There would be far fewer people finding the careers they love.

Without Tableau Public, would there be a Tableau Community?

Picture this: you've purchased a new office and need to hire a designer to help you make the space yours. How would you go about hiring this person? Would you scan LinkedIn and look for people with the title "Interior Designer" or look for people that went to design school? Of course you wouldn't. You would ask to see their portfolio. Imagine a designer coming in to meet you and not bringing a portfolio of their work. Would you hire them? Of course not. You're interested in WHAT they've done, not where they went to school. Their portfolio IS their CV.

From a Tableau perspective, Tableau Public is the new CV. The secret to hiring people that are great at Tableau is to look at their Tableau Public profiles. If someone doesn't have a Tableau Public profile, don't hire them. Those people, more often than not, don't understand the ethos of the Tableau Community. And if they aren't part of the Community, I would seriously question their skills. How can you evaluate their work if they don't have a portfolio? Simple...you can't!

Eva and I have been asking people to tell us how Makeover Monday has helped them get a job they love. Person after person has told us that their Tableau Public profile was the major differentiator for them getting the job. People have been able to DEMONSTRATE their work, live in front of those interviewing them. They've been able to prove they have the skills needed for the role. Those companies may have asked for a CV, but what really mattered to them was WHAT people have done.

Through Tableau Public, you can see the progression of someone's skills. You want to look for people that have clearly shown improvement. Without Tableau Public, how would any of these people have been able to show their progression?

DEVELOPING SKILLS

Let's have a look at Stephen's viz:

• It's simple and easy to understand.
• Nice and clean; there's no unnecessary decoration
• Using colors that represent the parties
• Using a line chart to represent change over time
• Labeling the end point makes us aware of the current situation

• The stepped lines are necessary.
• The ratio of the chart looks strange to me.
• The title could be more impactful.
• Adding a y-axis would add context.

• Focus on the % of women and men in each party
• Use the party colors, but still be able to distinguish men and women
• Use a line to break up the area chart
• Use an impactful title and subtitle
• Use a viz in tooltip to show BANs

With that, here's my Makeover Monday for week 42. Click on the image for the interactive version:

1. Creating the small multiples layout
2. Limiting the data to 2017/2018. I chose to do this via a data source filter so that I didn't have to worry about adding the date field as a filter and add it to context.
3. Creating the line chart
4. Formatting the axis properly
5. Creating the calculation needed for the shading (I approached it by doing one of the top calculations, then one of the bottom calculations, then the combined)
6. Creating the total sales text at the top-center of the chart

1. I knew I had to calculation right for the label for the latest month, but for the life of me I couldn't get it working. I felt like I needed another axis for the mark, then it dawned on me like a slap in the face how simple the solution is.

Here's a gif of the working solution. Click on the gif for the interactive version.

• Simple title that explains what the viz is about
• Cancer types are sorted from highest to lowest based on the five-year survival rate
• "All cancers" is sorted at the top since it's the overall statistic
• Using arrows to indicate improving or declining
• Using different colored dots for each time period
• Including an explanation for how the data came about

• The subtitle is long. I had to read it a couple times to understand it.
• The viz overall feels kind of busy.
• By using directional arrows, the change over time is lost. The change isn't linear, but the design could be interpreted that way.
• Color the arrows by increasing or decreasing. Uterus and Cervix Uteri cancer survival rates have decreased, but that could easily be missed.

• Incorporatde the change over time
• Used BANs for the first period and the last period measured and the difference
• Used a big dot to indicate a reduction in survival rate
• Used row banding to guide the eye from left to right (taking a lesson from last week's Workout Wednesday)
• Provided an option to filter by race and gender
• Used a set to split the view into the top 9 on the left and the rest on the right; my first version was one long viz, but I didn't like how I had to scroll.
• Used reference bands vertically and horizontally to give the labels space on the ends of the lines

Click on the image below for the interactive version.

Really good challenge. I particularly enjoy the workouts that have practical use cases for every day work. Thanks Luke for the challenge!

For the chart:

1. I used an area chart on one axis.
2. I used a line chart on the other axis.
3. I used an ascii ● as a label on each mark on the line. This has to be centered vertically and horizontally for it to appear in the correct place for each month.
4. For the vertical label, I used this knowledge base article to add a line break after each letter. Since there are 8 letters max, my formula has 8 lines and then I trim the text.

I'm sure there's a better way to do the vertical labels using the length of the string, but this works. In programming, I'd use a WHILE loop. Thanks Rody!