Welcome to the archive of things I’ve written about data visualisation (or, Things With Graphs In) ((or, things on this blog which are neither academic nor opinionated)). Some of it from my PhD years is about R, some of it from my industry years is about Tableau and Alteryx. Some of it might go wild and be about all of the above.
I like big numbers and I cannot lie: how to make numbers pop out from KPI dashboards in Tableau
Coxcomb charts in Alteryx and Tableau: your one stop blog shop
With great data comes great responsibility
Keeping things regular: how to schedule things on Tableau Server
ASCII and ye shall receive: approximating graphs in Tableau tooltips
All the small things: Tableau tips and tricks I picked up when revizzing my PhD work
Tooltips: going beyond simple information
Using dummy variables for sizing Gantt bars in Tableau
Simple filters and parameter filters in Tableau
Sets and groups and rock and roll
Getting around Tableau level of detail calculations in Alteryx
Calculating the top n % in Alteryx: different methods, different results
Alteryx for R Souls: summarize
Alteryx for R Souls: an introduction to macros
Alteryx for R Souls: a quick introduction
Quantifying three years of a long-distance relationship
Rolling form and how Arsenal lost the Premier League title
Portugal: the worst Euro finalists ever
Visualising competition in the Premier League and La Liga
The (lack of) relation between youth playing time and later success in football
Quiz time: La Liga or Premier League?
Visualising football league tables
The gender gap in school achievement: exploring UK GCSE data
Bigger isn’t always better – the case of the first innings in cricket
Using R to stick Excel columns into individual .txt files
scatterplot / dotplot / losttheplot
Using R to calculate better cricket statistics, or how to revolutionise the way we slag off Ian Bell
Let's get vizzical 