Author: Mark Bradbourne

In March 2019, I published my second viz to Tableau Public. I spent weeks collecting and cleaning the data, and another few weeks building out the dashboard. In theory, it was a really cool viz. Users could adjust a series of eight different parameters to look up and visualize over 4,000 unique NFL Team stats […]

I’ve talked about Viz Block before… getting a data set, and being 100% block on a direction, a story, or a shred of inspiration. Week 40 of 2019 I got on the Struggle Bus once again… London Population data with a forecast as long as my arm. Lots of great data, and while I tried […]

Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme… Beauty versus the Beast. Imagine this scenario (I don’t think it will be that hard)… You work for a company that has purchased Tableau (YEAH!) and you are about to receive your first project for this smokin’ new data visualization software! “Please create this tabular […]

I experienced my first escape room a couple of years ago while in Toronto, Canada for work… it was a team building event. I totally had a blast figuring out the puzzles and unlocking the next puzzle. It’s all very cerebral, and heart pounding at the same time as you watch the clock tick down […]

Today, I was working on a project at work and I accidentally put a staked bar on top of a Treemap and had a thought about Marginal Histograms and if it made sense to do a similar “Viz-Stitch” and do a Marginal Treemap. Honestly the jury is still out, but in certain situations I think […]

This week’s Makeover Monday was all about wind power, and in particular how Texas leads the way with their investment in wind turbines. Pretty cool dataset… but let me pause right here. I’ve gotten in to a bad habit lately… and I say that speaking about my own data visualization practices an not anyone else’s… […]

The following highlight came from the Tableau User Group Leader Informal Roundtable (TUGLIR!) chat thread. Enjoy! From the Chat: On finding an audience for new TUGs or expanding the groups:–Work with your local Tableau reps to spread the word through their accounts–Spam it on Twitter and LinkedIn (other Analytics Groups)–Work with Jordon Scott to send […]

These are my five favorite vizzes I created during 2018. January 3rd, 2018 – Poultry and Red Meat Consumption This was the first Makeover Monday of the year, and this ended up being included in the Makeover Monday book. How could I not include this one? I love the simplicity of it and the color […]