Bringing clarity out of an infographic, “Income Inequality in the US” from...
A colleague shared this Mother Jones infographic, which attempts to explain the disparity in income between richer and poorer families in the US. The data is indeed fascinating, but quite difficult to...
View ArticleHistory of US House representation from 1910 through 2010
A few observations from this example Examining this dashboard with the initial decades of 1960 and 2010, you can see that the control of the House has shifted toward the West and the South....
View ArticleFree Webcast: Performance to Cost Index & my personal history with “Big Data”
NOTE: This fun review of “big data” was inspired by a recent presentation I gave on behalf of Tableau Software at the Big Data Conference in Chicago. You can find the 2nd part of this 3 part webcast...
View ArticleFree Webcast: “Big Data” in US History, Exploring the 1790 US Census
NOTE: This fun review of “big data” was inspired by a recent presentation I gave on behalf of Tableau Software at the Big Data Conference in Chicago. You can find the 1st part of this 3 part webcast...
View ArticleWebcast: “Big Data” on your laptop, fast, informative and at your command
NOTE: This fun review of “big data” was inspired by a recent presentation I gave on behalf of Tableau Software at the Big Data Conference in Chicago. You can find the 1st part of this 3 part webcast...
View ArticleImportant presentation? Have paper notes of your key points at the podium!
Here’s a copy of my key points from Part 3 of our recent Big Data analytics webcast, “Big Data” on your laptop, fast, informative and at your command. If you are making an important presentation about...
View ArticleData Driven Conference 2012 and our special discount for attendees
We are having a great time at the Data Driven Conference in Columbus! Our first session was standing room only and we are presenting the same talk a second time at 1:30 in E161. Interesting questions...
View ArticleHow to show growth over time and conceal the baseline time period in Tableau
A client asked, “What I want to show is a YoY (year over year) or WoW (week over week) comparison – however the first data point is always missing – even when the underlying data are available. For...
View ArticleEstimating future success rates from initial experience, surveys and...
A wide range of common business questions are often decided incorrectly because decision-makers overlook, forget or neglect the application of a simple concept from statistics. In this tutorial we...
View ArticleFree Webinar Videos and Solutions—Part 1 of Better Analytics in Tableau 8...
If you display information the right way, anybody can be an analyst. —JOHN TUKEY Prominent American statistician who first used the word “software” Topics with links + Multi-item color...
View ArticleFree Webinar Videos and Solutions—Part 2 of Better Analytics in Tableau 8...
If you display information the right way, anybody can be an analyst. —JOHN TUKEY Prominent American statistician who first used the word “software” Topics with links + Treemaps and...
View ArticleRapid Graphs with Tableau 8 (pre-publication discount available)
Rapid Graphs with Tableau 8 The Original Guide for the Accidental Analyst + Written by Tableau product manager, teaching Tableau to thousands since 2009 + Real-world examples that you can follow...
View ArticleAlteryx Inspire 2013 Tableau Talk
Download the presentation Picture This! Your Data in Tableau. Watch my big data talk here and download the example workbooks here (requires Tableau 8 to open). Attending this conference was a great...
View ArticleFreakalytics Timeline since 2007
Since 2007, we have traveled 310,000 miles to help tens of thousands of people via 8 books, 24 conference talks, 47 public trainings, 26 on-site trainings, 5 conference seminars and 36 consulting...
View ArticleJoyful circle charts or informative bar charts? Best practices in visual...
Stephen Few, noted visual analytics expert and the original inspiration for our work in the field, recently wrote about criticisms of best data visualizations practices by people who should know...
View ArticleSAS versus R for business analysts
Over on R4Stats, I replied to Bob Muenchen’s article, Forecast Update: Will 2014 be the Beginning of the End for SAS and SPSS? Personally, I think SAS is a wonderful application, with my SAS experience...
View ArticleWebinar today–What can visual analytics & big data do for you? (3 PM Eastern)
What can visual analytics & big data do for you? In this 45 minute webinar, Stephen McDaniel will review visual analytic examples and demonstrate what big data analytics can do for you. Stephen...
View ArticleData for examples and videos for Rapid Graphs with Tableau 8 book
If you are interested in buying the book, please follow this link. There are three sample datasets used in the Tableau 8 book that are free for anyone to use, but you must be a registered user of our...
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