Although my day to day revolves around delivering analytics solutions to clients with Tableau, between the acquisition by Salesforce and some personal curiosity, I wanted to branch out and try to recreate a viz of mine in Power BI. I have had other jobs heavy in data visualization tools such as Spotfire and OBIEE, but […]
As I’ve said before, most of my sports vizzes evolve from some sort of “discussion” I get into at my favorite watering hole, O’bryon’s, in the Evanston neighborhood of Cincinnati. This viz was no different… Growing up a Cincinnati sports fan, I was the eternal optimist that the underdog could persist. We are the perennial […]
I created this UEFA Champions League viz using the tutorial found here created by Luke Stanke. Let me walk you through the steps on how I made my particular viz and how it differs from Luke’s original concept. As you can see above, each year’s winner connects via a curved line to the league that […]
At this year’s Tableau Conference Europe I experienced a data community first. After our #SportsVizSunday presentation a random member of the session approached me and shared with me that they enjoyed my Tableau Public work. My mind was blown. My first reaction was, ‘you must be thinking of someone else. Simon is the bald one.’ […]
Hey all, thanks so much for making the SportsVizSunday session such a fun time this past week in Berlin! It was so fun to kick off the conference with such an engaged and excited group of attendees. It was truly a pleasure for Simon, James, and me to help facilitate this session which was hopefully […]
Monthly Data Challenge This month our data challenge centered around the Cricket World Cup. As always we had some absolutely fabulous submissions my various members of our passionate #SportsVizSunday community. Admittedly, as an American, I was clueless about the topic, thus I did not submit a viz, but I learned plenty from the ones that […]
The most common request I have received from clients using Tableau is to define criteria for a metric most commonly displayed as a KPI. These metrics all by themselves can be impactful, but adding context in the form of a sparkline or change arrows can help provide context to make that visual more effective. Sparklines […]
