Antichaos
Tableau, Data Analyse & Visualisatie
Three easy to implement tips on BANs: the Big Ass Numbers you put on top of your dashboard.
BANs are a common and good way to display important figures. But while they are seemingly easy to implement, often they can be improved to make them more effective.
[part of the ‘Datafam London 2024 – Deepcleaning your dashboard’ series]
[Read more…] about Clean your BANs – 3 simple tipsLine charts are one of the best and popular ways to show how data has developed over time. It’s a simple graph that is familiar to anyone, but the default generated can often be improved – either in Tableau, Excel or any other tool.
In this blog post I want to show how a relative small change in a line chart can result in a big improvement.
[part of the ‘Datafam London 2024 – Deepcleaning your dashboard’ series]
[Read more…] about Line-chart: betters ways to compare years[part of the ‘Datafam London 2024 series]
In part 1 we took a look at a basic bar chart, and ended with the lollypop chart. A fun chart with one major issue: the dot obfuscates the real datapoint.
One solution for it the Punctuated Bar Chart:
We highlight the end of each bar, instead of enlarging the endpoint.
[part of the ‘Datafam London 2024 series]
On DataFam 2024 in London I gave a presentation / workshop on deep cleaning dashboards.
Dashboard cleaning is about: Removing, adding , re-arranging, and replacing stuff. In Tableau, it’s about: Table calculations, extra sheets, changing images, talking to users, being critical to yourself, … Is hard work – and a lot of fun!
[Read more…] about Deep Cleaning Barcharts – part 1: the basicsIt’s my personal yearly end-of-December Christmas tradition: visualizing the Top 2000 hitlist of NPO Radio 2 (a Dutch national radio station).
(you can also view the interactive visualization on Tableau Public)
[Read more…] about Top 2000 – Edition 2024: Snow Globes