If Data Could Talk

I was asked by some colleagues to share my path to a job as "Evangelist" and explain what inspires me. I thought I'd share it with you all!

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Here's something I worked on for a company talent contest. Enjoy!

Inspired by a trick I learnt from Michael Feldman. This working was helped by feedback from my magician friend Luis Alberto Iglesias Gómez.

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When showing percentages, should we show the full 100% or truncate to fit the data? I take a look, with referral to a chart from the BBC.

More on this topic here: https://gravyanecdote.com/visual-analytics/coronavirus-be-wary-how-we-visualise-data/

Links to more of my content:
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/acotgreave
My blog: https://gravyanecdote.com/

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Join me as I discuss the Tableau Zen Master application process with Jonathan Drummey and Bridget Cogley.

Nominations:
https://www.tableau.com/about/blog/2019/12/nominations-are-open-2020-zen-masters

More info on the Tableau Zen Masters:
https://www.tableau.com/zen-masters

Links to more of my content:
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/acotgreave
My blog: https://gravyanecdote.com/

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As part of my coverage of the election, I noticed that the Swingometer, long loved in the UK, has become anachronistic and, more importantly, inaccurate. It's time to drop this viz in favour of more accurate ways of showing data.
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On Twitter: https://twitter.com/acotgreave
My blog: https://gravyanecdote.com/

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This is a bar chart race built using the new animated transitions in Tableau beta.
In this version, the bars grow to fill the screen rather than remain at full width.
It shows the most popular investigators (by counting published decks) on ArkhamDB.com.

Links to more of my content:
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/acotgreave
My dataviz blog: https://gravyanecdote.com
My Arkham blog: http://decipheredreality.com

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This is a bar chart race built using the new animated transitions in Tableau beta.
It shows the most popular investigators (by counting published decks) on ArkhamDB.com.

If you want to build one of these, here's how: https://gravyanecdote.com/tableau/how-to-build-a-bar-chart-race-in-tableau/

Links to more of my content:
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/acotgreave
My dataviz blog: https://gravyanecdote.com
My Arkham blog: http://decipheredreality.com

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Reddit announced a moratorium on Bar Chart Races. At last! Partly spamming, but also, I believe, because they are a fad that we are all getting bored of.

Links to more of my content:
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/acotgreave
My blog: https://gravyanecdote.com/

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Video shows the top Investigators on ArkhamDB.com (by count of published decks) from September 2016 to April 2019.

More ArkhamDB analytics here:
https://gravyanecdote.com/category/arkhamhorror/

Bar Chart Race by Flourish: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/322445/

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