Rants on Literacies: Whose job is it to communicate well, anyway?!
Children spend an exorbitant amount of time learning to read and write. For such a foundational skill, it’s a right
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Bridget Cogley
ASL Interpreter turned Tableau artist. I love dashboards, design thinking, and sticky notes.
Uplifting a Tableau Accelerator to Design, Delight, and Deliver for an Education Admissions Dashboard – Part 1: Assessment
How do you use a Tableau Accelerator and still make it your own? Often, when we try to adapt someone
Continue ReadingFunctional Aesthetics for Data Visualization
Looking to get the latest on Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization? Check on this webinar we recently did with Versalytix.
Continue ReadingWill AI eat my job?
Soha Elghany posed a question on Twitter that stopped me in my tracks. Further in the thread, she brings up
Continue ReadingThe Third Tier: What it (really) takes to read a chart
How do you preserve a pattern? Somewhere between 8000 and 7000 BC, humans started keeping a record of their transactions.
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Mark Bradbourne hosts Just 5 Minutes, a podcast explores various themes around Tableau, data visualization, and life in general in
Continue ReadingRevisiting the Language of Data Visualization: 3 Themes to do Viz Better
Years ago, in a blog far away, I started thinking through how to do visualization better. Better, while it sounds
Continue ReadingWhat happens now?
In 2015, I asked this question over and over again. I’d jumped from a job where Tableau made maybe 10%
Continue ReadingFinding Beauty in Meaning
The data sits before me, neatly nestled to the left. The canvas before me is blank, just waiting. I drag
Continue ReadingManky Sankeys and Data Dilemmas: Data Doctor Download Returns
Hello vizzers and chart makers! You got data problems? You’ve come to the right place. Let’s get vizzy. Doc, Hello
Continue ReadingHow the EXCEL do I shape that?! Data Grains for (Wholesome) Analysis
When I started working with data, at some point, people started asking about grain. Now, I eat a variety of
Continue ReadingHow the EXCEL do I format that?! 5 Tips for winning formats.
Formatting in Tableau is a secret superpower. Yet, with the myriad of options, it can get complicated. Looking to format
Continue ReadingEthics in Society
I have struggled to write this post now for months. It started first as an exploration of ethical values. Except,
Continue ReadingData Doctor Download: The Advice Column No One Asked For
Dear Data Doctor, My organization just bought Tableau, and I have no idea where the EX**L to start. They have
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