You can still cheat in Tableau! Examples of dark practices
Tableau is famous for following the best of the best practices in the DataViz world, but there are still plenty of ways to make misleading charts.
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Is it easy to replicate the default settings of one charting software in another charting software?
Are the default settings more universal or less universal? Do different vendors have different attitudes towards what should be the default setting?
CONTINUE >>>Let’s Bring Some Data Density to Financial Presentations
Managers rarely have time to thoroughly explore financial presentations, that is why you need to make as much information available as quickly as possible — an easily readable data-dense visualization serves this purpose well. In my pursuit to make denser bar charts, I found five techniques that I will share here.
CONTINUE >>>Visualizing profit loss statement
I tried finding a better way to visualize profit loss statement solving some limitations of waterfall and sankey charts.
CONTINUE >>>Radial charts with 6 online tools
Radial charts are far from best practices, so if a tool has them, we can consider it to be flexible enough. May this article serve you as a helpful reference.
CONTINUE >>>Chart idea: Comparative Stacked Bars
Stacked Bars have one major weakness, it’s difficult to compare changes of its segments over time. I tried finding a way to improve it.
CONTINUE >>>Chart idea: Cake Chart
The pie chart faces a tremendous amount of criticism for attempts to show part to the whole relations. Here I will offer an alternative which is something like a mix of square pie chart, marimekko and packed bars.
CONTINUE >>>Spotting the turbulence or How to visualize the yield curve?
How does one draw the dynamics of a changing curve? This article will be dedicated to experiments of drawing the evolution of the whole yield curve over time.
CONTINUE >>>Same chart – 9 online charting tools
Imagine the situation – we want a beautiful and interactive chart on our website but have no knowledge of D3 or other fancy stuff, so, to pick a solution I am quickly trying them all and making a recommendation based on this experience.
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