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February 15, 2022

How to Create a Barbell Chart

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In this tip, I show you two methods for creating a barbell chart. The first method uses two measures and the second method uses one measure split up by a dimension.

February 8, 2022

How to Create an Enclosed Dot Plot

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In this tip, I show you how to create an enclosed dot plot, which is essentially a dot plot that is enclosed by a line. It's very similar to a barbell chart except the line connecting the dots surrounds to dots.

July 19, 2021

#MakeoverMonday 2021 Week 29 - Non-Whites Are At Higher Risk of Dying From COVID-19

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Another COVID-19 data set this week and a great visualization that shows how much more likely ethnic minorities in the UK are to die from COVID.

In the video, I worked through rebuilding the original viz since I liked it so much. Interact with the viz below the video.


May 24, 2021

#MakeoverMonday 2021 Week 21 - How are wildlife populations changing?

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My Makeover Monday this week is very similar to the original other than I converted it to a diverging bar chart. Check out #WatchMeViz and the final visualization below. I iterated through 10 charts in about 45 minutes.


February 8, 2021

#MakeoverMonday Week 6: Why Are Women Perceived to Be Unequal to Men?

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Wow! What a fun #WatchMeViz that was! I iterated through 16 charts and then when the idea solidified, there was some great conversation and feedback on the chat to help me get to the end. I find survey responses quite difficult to visualize, so instead of getting frustrated, I thought about all of the ways I can compare data to see if anything would work.

Most importantly, thank you to all of your on the live chat. It makes a huge difference to me and I love getting your feedback and questions along the way. You make me better. You can find the final visualization below the video.


June 25, 2015

Tableau Tip: How to Create DNA Charts

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The Data School launched this week and on the consultants' second day, we brought them into an all day training class with the rest of the Information Lab team. One of the courses we taught was advanced visualisations. The reason we run these internal training classes is because we have a core belief in continuous learning.

As part of this exercise, we were building a dot plot and Laszlo Zsom asked how to connect two dots on the same row.  I hadn't ever done it before, so I used a Gantt chart to connect them. Then Chris Love suggested using lines.

In this week's tip (two days late as it is), I demonstrate both of these methods.  Click on the image below to enjoy the video.


April 23, 2015

Dear Data Two - Week 2: Transport

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Jeffrey Shaffer and I are two weeks into a year-long weekly hand-drawn data viz project we’re calling Dear Data Two. The project is entirely modeled after the Dear Data project Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec are doing. Jeffrey and I thought this would be a great way for us to remove ourselves from software and work on being more “artistic”.

The week 2 theme was “Transport”. Jeffrey tracked his step pattern around his office.



While I tracked the places I went all week and how I got to each place. What was different for me this week is that I started with Tableau and then went to hand drawn. Going forward, you can keep up with the project at www.dear-data-two.com, where you can read more about our thoughts and how we created each postcard.



March 3, 2015

Tableau Tip Tuesday: Creating Connected Scatter Plots in Tableau

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I love connected scatter plots, especially when they are animated. Hans Rosling made the scatter plot more famous with his incredible video showing fertility rates vs. life expectancy, and this is the data set that I used in this tip.  Also worth checking out is this great blog post by Alberto Cairo.

I previously wrote detailed instructions for creating connected scatter plots here.

You can download the workbook used to create this video here.

August 12, 2014

Tableau Tip: Creating a Connected Scatterplot

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Today I had the incredible honor of helping Alberto Cairo create his very first Tableau visualization. Alberto chose to create a connected scatterplot.  Shortly thereafter on Twitter, Lynn Cherny asked:
So this post is dedicated to her question.  Here you go Lynn:

Step 1: Create the scatterplot


Step 2: Change the Mark type to Line


Step 3: Add a continuous date dimension to the Path shelf


Step 4: Add Markers to the lines via the Color shelf


Step 5: On each axis, uncheck the "Include Zero" option


Step 6: Add a dimension to the Color shelf to create additional lines


That's all there is to it!  Super simple!  Download the sample workbook here.