The ‘shapes’ functionality in Tableau is a nice way to enhance and personalize a visualization. But be aware what exactly you are decoration – especially on maps.
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Top 2000 of 2023 – what stood out?
The Top 2000 of Radio 2 (a populair Dutch radio station) has been broadcast for the 25th time – and traditionally I am trying to turn this into a ‘different’ interactive data visualization…
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Now and then you encounter data with ‘extreme values’. Values which are much larger than the other ones – and so hard to analyse.
A dataset which is skewed like that needs to have a special treatment when visualized, because otherwise the individual values can’t be identified correctly.
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Often improving a dashboard is about small changes. Have a look a this chart:
[This blogpost is part of a series tips tricks, as being presented at VizIt Berlin 2023]
[Read more…] about Improve layout of percentags – Better labels in TableauDynamic value format – Better labels in Tableau
Labels are often an after-thought for many users – we don’t like them, but are necessary. Using some simple steps we can create better labels which are easier to interpret for the users of the dashboard.
[This blogpost is part of a series tips tricks, as being presented at VizIt Berlin 2023]