It may seem like a cold-hearted thing to do, but I saw the recession resulting from the COVID-19 epidemic as an opportunity. It was March 2020 – the markets were beginning to crash, and incredibly…
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Moving Beyond Pretty: Applications of UI/UX Design in Analytics @ TC21
This year I was incredibly honoured to be given the opportunity to create an on-demand episode for the Tableau Conference 2021 (TC21). I decided to focus on specific applications of UI/UX in creating effective dashboards,…
Data Freshness labels: How to enhance trust in your dashboards
The recency of the data your dashboard is displaying can be one of the most important pieces metadata on a dashboard. Users of dashboards will undoubtedly, at some point in time, have the question go…
Mimicking Drop Shadow on Popup Boxes in Tableau
Tableau, while allowing a great range of formatting options, is limited in options specifically for making things look nicer. Well, that isn’t entirely fair; but there are a lot of things it can’t do that…
Setting parameter values based on other parameters using Actions and custom buttons
In the world of Tableau, the power of Parameters is well known. Parameters can be used for a plethora of ways to enhance interactivity and user experience, but sometimes you run in to situations where…
Data-Ink: Applications in Modern Business Analytics
“Data-Ink?” you say? It’s an odd name, I agree, but what it represents is fundamental to excelling in visual analytics. Data-Ink is a concept introduced by Edward Tufte in his 1983 classic The Visual Display…
How to Improve a War Board
War boards are commonplace in the modern data-driven business these days. They’re a powerful tool to help spot trends, find anomalies, track progress, and satisfy one’s hunger for numbers. What are war boards? They are…
Designing Great Dashboards
Function over form. This is the mantra repeated by all great dashboard and report developers, and for good reason. But does this principle mean that form should suffer? And could it be possible to extract…