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STROOPIFIED! Tableau Dashboards, Color, and Functional Aesthetics

How much does color affect our understanding of dashboards? We know bad choices in palettes can definitely break a good

Mixed Signals: Tableau Dashboards, Color, and Alerting

Long before we ever heard of Gestalt, we learned to harness color for decision-making. Some of the lessons we’ve learned

The most valuable viz in your career is one you'll never expect to make. It'll sneak up on you when you don't expect it and, over time, fill a space you didn't realize existed.

Ethics

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The Missing Manual on Data Ethics: What does Ethical Decision-Making Look Like?

You’ve read the articles, got the books, and are fired up on the ethical bandwagon. Before we start go too

2 identical tableau dashboards different color schemes

Dashboard Design, Tableau

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Color Me Shocked: 5 Secrets to Improve Color Use in your Tableau Dashboards

Color is often cited as one of the hardest pieces to master in Tableau design. There’s a reason: conventional wisdom

Data Literacy & Culture

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Part 2: Building Data Literate Teams with Tableau – Building the Dream Team

So now that we know data literacy goes beyond the chart, what comes next? We need people for our team

Data Literacy & Culture

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Part 1: Building Data Literate Teams with Tableau – Busting the Buzzword

I’ll let you in on a little secret. Data literacy goes far beyond chart-making. Don’t get me wrong, charts are

Data Ethics in Corporate Cultures: How do we encourage ethical behavior?

Most corporate ethics policies fail, because they require individuals to be brave. They ask people to jump off a cliff and so rarely provide a parachute.

Tableau

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Today’s Lessons in Grief: It’s okay to talk

I’ve heard from a number of people in response to my (semi) public grief. There’s a common thread in each

How the EXCEL?!, Tableau

Relational-ish: JSON, Tableau, and the Power of Sets

JSON is incredible if you want a lightweight way to share the data. It allows you to track loads of

Tableau

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Relational-ish: A Preview of Working with JSON

Next week, I’ll be presenting with Patrick McCormick on working with JSON. Here’s a quick preview of WHY you want

Data Ethics, Dashboards, and Presenting Death

A key part of learning data visualization is how to share a message. If you are visualizing human lives, you have the capacity to do harm. What kind of world do you want to create?

Grief

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Today’s Lessons in Grief: The Seeking Humor Edition

We so rarely discuss grief as a society. We instead like to mark those who are grieving as fragile and,

Hiring Tableau Talent in 2019: The Machine Learning Edition for LinkedIn Recruiters

My latest machine learning algorithm has predicted you have an offer for a contract job in Detroit with a laundry list of what my SQL, OBIEE, and machine learning skills should be. Oh, yes, it's time we chat, but not for what you think...

Tableau

The Death of an Analyst

There are few posts about death one wants to write. Some are poignant, like ones Oliver Sacks wrote before his

The Most Meaningful Viz

Data Ethics in Corporate Cultures: How do we encourage ethical behavior?

Data Ethics, Dashboards, and Presenting Death

Hiring Tableau Talent in 2019: The Machine Learning Edition for LinkedIn Recruiters