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.

# Dark practice, Tableau

Is it easy to replicate the default settings of one charting software in another charting software?

The question is it easy to replicate the default settings of one charting software in another charting software bothered me for some time. Are the default settings more universal or less universal? Do different vendors have different attitudes towards what … CONTINUE READING >>>

# Excel, Google Data Studio, Power BI, R, Same chart many tools, Tableau

Tools of dedicated dataviz professionals

There are variety of tools to do dataviz and for someone who is just starting it is quite difficult to select which one to learn. One possible criteria might be whether this tool is used by professions focused on dataviz.

# challenge, Marimekko chart, R

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 on Nightingale

# Article, Excel, financial analysis, Nightingale

Resume in Tableau

This is one idea how to make resume as a data visualization.

# Chart ideas, Interactive, Tableau

Visualizing profit loss statement

I tried finding a better way to visualize profit loss statement solving some limitations of waterfall and sankey charts.

# Article, Chart ideas, financial analysis, R, Sankey, Waterfall chart

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.

# Article, Charticulator, Circos, Flourish, PlotDB, Plotly, RAWgraphs, Same chart many tools

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.

# Chart ideas, R, Stacked bar chart, Tableau

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.

# Cake chart, Chart ideas, R, Tableau

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.

# 3D, Animation, Article, Heatmap, Line chart, R, Ridgeline, Small multiples, Tableau

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.

# amCharts, Article, Datawrapper, Flourish, Google Data Studio, Google Sheets, Highcharts, Infogram, Plotly, Same chart many tools, Visme

Templates of charts with lines for Tableau

Here are my templates of various charts with lines (often curved) to reproduce when needed.

# Tableau, Template

Templates of Radial charts for Tableau

Here are my templates of various radial charts to reproduce when needed.

# Tableau, Template

Templates of various non-standard charts for Tableau

Here are my templates of various charts to reproduce when needed. Not all of them are useful, some are just fun to make.

# Tableau, Template

Game: Trading in Random Market

Try trading in random market – buy stocks, borrow money, hedge with derivatives and go bankrupt! It's fun!

# Game, Interactive, R, R shiny, Stock market

R colours in a reasonable order

Here colours are grouped by name, sorted according to their hue and arranged by lightness inside a group, and saturation among groups.

# Colour, R

Movie analyzer for your enjoyment and discovery

This dashboard helps you to find the best movies. Warning! After using this movie analyzer only a bit the watchlist grows instantly!

# Dashboard, Interactive, Movies, Tableau