Author: Mark Bradbourne

Last year I made a resolution, and I’m generally not one for resolutions because I simply don’t keep them. The resolution I made was to participate in all 52 weeks of Makeover Monday. By now, I’ve talked about Makeover Monday numerous times, and how I feel about it in regards to my development in using […]

This week’s data set was looking at building accessibility in Singapore and the elderly population in Singapore’s sub-zones (counties). A couple of things about this viz that I read like, that I don’t think I’ve bogged about before so here it goes. BYOL – Build Your Own Legend Sometime the Tableau out of the box […]

Imagine this if you will; you’ve created a sweet viz and published it to Tableau Public, then a few month later you get more data to add to that viz, but you can’t find the original Excel file. So what do you do? You download the viz, export the data to CSV and then start […]

First off, this was a 100% team effort and without Josh, Rodrigo, Amar and Ken (and probably a few other folks along the way as well) it wouldn’t have happened. Apologies if iI missed your contribution  but searching old Twitter feeds isn’t the easiest task! My role was honestly very limited short of testing and an idea. More proof […]

I’ve been uber-sensitive about color blindness for about 10 years now. I reported to a CFO who asked for a financial dashboard, and I included a “stop-light” visualization to indicate performance, just simple dots colored red, yellow and green. I presented the dashboard to the CFO and he looked up at me, as I prepared […]

This week’s Makeover Monday data set came from a holiday/calendar database with holidays and observances around the world. Because of the variety in classification of holiday (in regards to what the classification was called) I boiled it down to the US and UK National or Federal holidays and observances. My original thought was to do […]

Today (Friday, October 27th) marks my 1 year anniversary on Tableau Public! Makeover Monday is what initially drew me to start publishing things on Tableau Public, and the first data set I published was based on the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando Florida. Obviously, this wasn’t the first time I used Tableau, but it was […]

Viz For Social Good’s latest project is featuring the African Youth Mentorship Network. I proud to continue to support Viz for Social Good and all the amazing organizations it features. My hope is that in some way, all the visualizations that get created move the needle just a little bit and make this world a […]

It was the best of times… until Friday, when everyone was gone, then it was the worst of times. #Data17, the Tableau User Conference has come and gone and I’m left with an inspired mind, a full heart and a thankful soul. Seems like a bit much, but sitting in  the Las Vegas airport reflecting […]