Top 5 Data Skills You Need to Learn in 2019
Think about it. We have 26 letters in the alphabet and 10 basic numerical digits. Yet, somehow it all combines to generate more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of da...
Tag: Data Viz
Framing Your Data Correctly
When presenting information how you frame it matters. To illustrate this point we're going to compare how FiveThirtyEight, one of the best data news sources, ch...
U.S. Corporate Tax Havens
This week I decided to help repurpose some data that wasn't seeing as much love as I felt it could. The data comes from a couple CNBC articles [1][2] that chose...
San Diego Fire Department Calls Analysis
The city of San Diego, my home, recently opened up a lot of their data here: SD Open Data Portal Being the data geek and curious citizen I am I was wondering ab...
Tesla Model S Data Viz Remix
Let me start by saying the Tesla Model S is the best car ever made. I'm not the only one saying it… In fact, the Model S actually scored 103 points in Con...
How to Link Tableau Sheets
Today on my live Data Geek Q&A session I showed how to create custom links between sheets in Tableau so you can control the user navigation. You can view an...
Tableau Tip: Conditional Formatting Highlight Cell Rules
I received a question from a student recently about how to apply Excel-like conditional formatting in Tableau. This is a great feature in Microsoft Excel in whi...