Business Dashboards

I first thought about dashboards probably around 2010, when I was seconded to help on a new strategy for a new CEO of a financial institution. He told the team that he wanted a tool that would give him an overview of how various parts of the company were doing, all in one place, that…

Digital Nomad Index: Where are we going next?

Being interested in remote work and having met a fair number of digital nomads/remote workers in my travels, I decided to look for data on internet speed by country and cost of living. I have actually used Numbeo's very user-friendly and informative Cost of Living data on their website in the past and had recently…

Long Overdue Reflection on Being Interviewed for the SuperDataScience Podcast

Way back in August, I was lucky enough to be invited to be a guest on Kirill Eremenko’s SuperDataScience podcast. Since then, my interview has been downloaded over 8000 times (I’m famous!) Kirill was in London the week my episode was out, so I finally met him in person at a dinner meetup with his…

Colour Alert Update (Tableau Quick Tip)

Hot off the back of the Tableau Conference 2017 in Las Vegas (#data17), I discover that one of Andy Kriebel’s tips on his Tableau Speed Tipping Rematch with Jeff Shaffer makes creating a stepped colour scheme with a colour alert even easier! Again, this tip only works for a discrete field (although I have also…

How I created a stepped colour scheme with a colour alert in Tableau (using a discrete colour palette)

You may have read my previous post on creating a stepped colour scheme with a colour alert for a continuous field, but then realized that you have a discrete field (and it breaks the view when you try and change it to continuous!) and wondered how to achieve the same result with a discrete field.…

How I created a stepped colour scheme with a colour alert in Tableau (using a continuous colour palette)

Colours, colours, colours in Tableau. I had a client who wanted something very specific. He wanted a stepped colour scale, but with a visual alert, colour or otherwise, when the value went above a certain threshold. He gave an example of a box going red (on an otherwise white to blue colour scale). I thought…

Makeover Monday #31: The SEA Games

After a long break from Makeover Monday, the dataset for Week 31 really resonated with me for a number of reasons. It was around the SEA (Southeast Asian) Games, which is an event which I had grown up watching, having spent my childhood in Indonesia and Malaysia. The 2017 SEA Games are being held in Kuala Lumpur,…