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October 31, 2014
Join and/or Support our Tableau #Movember Team
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| Matt Francis - Our #Movember Team Leader |
This Movember, along with Matt Francis and several others, I will be raising vital funds and awareness for men’s health, and I want you to join my team.
The goal is to get the Tableau community together behind this cause, spark the conversation about mens health, raise money, have some fun and look damn good in a mustache. Look at Dan for example!!
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| Dan Murray - Many moons ago |
The Movember Foundation is the leading global organization committed to changing the face of men's health. They achieve this by challenging men to grow mustaches during Movember (the month formerly known as November) to spark conversation and raise funds for prostate cancer, testicular cancer and mental health problems.
I'm passionate about this cause because too many men are dying unnecessarily from prostate cancer. In 2014, more than 233,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer.
The Movember Foundation is working tirelessly with an urgent goal in mind: accelerating breakthroughs in prostate cancer research that will benefit patients and their families. Movember is achieving this with the formation of the largest, global alliance of prostate cancer researchers and clinical specialists, who are tackling the toughest prostate cancer challenges.
Signing up to my team and taking part in Movember will ensure you make a real impact to the men and their families affected by this disease. It would be simple to just sit back and do nothing, but it would be admirable to sign up and do something significant.
Mo Bros, sign up to grow a moustache for 30 days, and Mo Sistas, sign up to support the men in your lives. Join my team today and help change the face of men’s health:
Team Page: http://moteam.co/tableau-mo-bros-sistas
Personal Page: http://mobro.co/andykriebel
For some additional inspiration, check out this great viz that Matt made last year to help raise awareness:
September 1, 2014
Makeover Monday: Where We Donate vs. Diseases that Kill Us
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One of the ways that I can tell I've made an impact on people I've interacted with is when they send me links to terrible visualizations that they want me to makeover, long after we have worked together. My friend Karyn, who I used to work with at Facebook, send me a link last week to this infographic:
Of course the point of this infographic is to show how much money the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has raised compared to how few die from the disease relative to other diseases. The data is from 2011, so it doesn't account for the fact that the Ice Bucket Challenge has now raised over $100M. For the purpose of this makeover, let's focus on the chart itself. I see several issues immediately:
Source: IFLScience
Of course the point of this infographic is to show how much money the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has raised compared to how few die from the disease relative to other diseases. The data is from 2011, so it doesn't account for the fact that the Ice Bucket Challenge has now raised over $100M. For the purpose of this makeover, let's focus on the chart itself. I see several issues immediately:
- The bubble sizes were originally based on the diameter of the circles, not the area. This is a big mistake! The author has since fixed this so the graphic above is now correct.
- There are too many colors. I find myself going back and forth to the legend. It shouldn't be so hard for the readers.
- The colors in the legend are in no particular order; not alphabetical, not by deaths, nor not by money raised. This is way too confusing.
- It's difficult to trace the relationship between the deaths and the money raised.
Taking these difficulties into account, I have created this slope graph.
Some of the benefits of presenting the data with a slope graph include:
- We can see the ranking relationship between the cause and the disease much easier.
- I've highlighted the Ice Bucket Challenge since it is the focus on the article.
- I colored the remaining line by red or blue to indicate a decline or increase in rank respectively.
- I labeled the ends of the lines directly to eliminate the need for a legend.
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