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Women still underrepresented in films
It is not a secret that women in films are underrepresented and underpaid compared to their male partners. But what exactly is a percentage of films with women in lead roles compared to films led by...
Proximity Analysis with Voronoi Diagrams – Mapping US International Airports
What on earth is a Voronoi diagram? Put simply, it’s a graphical representation of proximity analysis that can be easily recognized by its characteristic cell-like structures. Each point in a...
Setting map classification with parameters
Maps are tricky, especially quantitative choropleth maps. Not because they are hard to make in Tableau. Just the opposite, it takes just a few mouse clicks to make one but is it right? It depends on...
4 methods to import line geography into Tableau
If you've played with Tableau's new spatial data connector, you might have come across an error like this: or even this: The first error message will pop up if you try to connect to a spatial file...
How to geocode thousands of addresses and make a Tableau custom polygon + point map, with a little help from FME
I recently had an opportunity to test the new spatial data connector in Tableau. It is a highly anticipated addition to the long list of connectors that allows you to work with ESRI Shapefiles, KML,...
Compare Prices Everywhere
This is my entry for the Tableau Ironviz qualifier contest. It is all about mobile design and Tableau 10's new Device Manager. I intended to create a simple and functional visualization resembling a...
Bob Dylan – analyzing 55 years of lyrics
Love him and his music or not, Bob Dylan is considered by many to be one of the greatest lyricists of all time. He has recorded 36 studio albums, written hundreds of songs, and is...
Chicago Crime Scene
I lived in Chicago in the early 90s. I loved the city, the hustle and bustle, grandiose architecture, busy urban streets, and its bold location on the shores of Lake Michigan. I also felt quite safe...
What is morally acceptable? It depends where you live.
In 2013, the Pew Research Global Attitudes Project asked over 40,000 respondents in 40 countries about their opinions on eight topics generally considered to be moral issues: Abortion Divorce...
The Militarization of Police in the US
At the end of August, US president Barack Obama ordered a review of federal programs that enable local and state law enforcement agencies to receive or purchase military equipment. This decision was...
Random Walk from Processing to Tableau
For another submission to Viz as Art contest at Tableau, I wanted to create something involving randomness and random walk specifically. But I found that the classic random walk algorithm creates...
Lorenz Attractor – There is Chaos in Tableau!
Inspired by the work of Noah Salvaterra and his beautiful Tableau visualizations of fractals and L-Systems, I made this visual of the Lorenz Strange Attractor. Edward Lorenz, a meteorologist and...