So I've nailed the alliteration in the title, always a good start. It seems I'm taking this blog into new territory and continuing to branch out from just talking data visualisation. I feel like writing about podcasts so I'm going to do just that. They're enriching my life right now and I want to share... Continue Reading →

It's been quite a while since my last post! I started this blog with the aim of writing about something I'm passionate about; data visualisation. Over the last year I've struggled to carve out time to write. Life is busy to say the least, with an independently-minded yet needy threenager and a hungry five month... Continue Reading →

Introduction I went along to a Her + Data meetup this week, and as was the case when I attended the last two events, I came away feeling inspired and energised. This is a community of data enthusiasts in Dublin which was founded by Karen Church at the start of 2017. We heard lightning talks... Continue Reading →

Intro Makeover Monday is a weekly social data project led by Andy Kriebel and Eva Murray. It was officially started in 2016 by Andy Kriebel, who was joined on the project by Andy Cotgreave (I believe prior to that it was a personal project of Andy Kriebel's). The project has grown considerably over the last two years.... Continue Reading →

It had been a few weeks since I'd created a viz for Makeover Monday so I decided to bite the bullet on Sunday evening and download the data. The Myers Briggs data set from Week 43 had looked really interesting but I didn't get to it unfortunately. There were lots of great visualisations created that... Continue Reading →

Intro The last two contributions I've shared for Makeover Monday have involved me vizzing on the clock. One of the guidelines on the website notes that you could consider time-boxing yourself to one hour. I don't have the stats on this but I have spent over an hour in approximately 95% of all cases, and... Continue Reading →

  Introduction I entered the first feeder competition for the Iron Viz in March 2017 and found it to be a very worthwhile and enjoyable process. I didn’t manage to submit an entry for the second round so I was determined not to miss out on round three! When I saw the blog on Tableau... Continue Reading →

The hunt for data Most people involved in data visualisation can relate to the challenges faced when on the hunt for data on the internet. In order to create a meaningful data visualisation or carry out a piece of analysis you often have to turn to multiple sources. As anyone who has gone through this... Continue Reading →

  Graphic Source: Tableau's Order of Operations What is the Order of Operations? Depending on where you are in your Tableau journey, you may or may not have come across Tableau's Order of Operations. This hierarchy shows the order in which the operations or actions in a visualisation are carried out. As a beginner, you... Continue Reading →

Introduction I attended my first ever Tableau Conference on Tour last week and it's safe to say that I was more than a little excited. I love Tableau and now have the obligatory speech bubble photo to prove it! I had heard great things about the conferences from people in the Tableau community on Twitter,... Continue Reading →