Hello everyone! I’m excited to be opening #VizCollab back up for another round of matches! In the last year I matched around 40 people for some amazing vizzes, including Viz of the Days and a viz that was featured in a local publication. …

Have a viz you’re working on and you’d like a set of eyes on it? Have a viz idea but no idea where to start? Just want to hang out with some cool people? Come and join our weekly office hours! Any tool. Any stage of data viz. We’re here to help! Michelle Frayman, Zak Geis, and myself meet virtually once a week to chat with people about their data viz. Learn more at Michelle’s viz below and use the link below that to register. We’d love to see you all!

Scaffolding data is an amazing tool to make sure your visualizations and analyses give the end user the information they need. Scaffolding data is a way to fill in any gaps in the structure of your data. The most common use case is for dates; most data systems only have…

IronViz 2023 just released the 15 IronViz Qualifiers, and they are incredible! When I saw my name on the list as fourth in the America’s I was thrilled! But by virtue of my placing it means someone else didn’t, and that sucks. This is my third IronViz, and my first…

I have re-written this blog several times. I started by outlining the importance of telling stories in business dashboards; then reworked it because I saw a lot of conversations about how dashboards shouldn’t tell stories and started second-guessing myself, but finally I decided to stand by my original thought that…

In the past year since joining the Tableau community I have learned so much as a data viz professional. Being open to new ideas and feedback has been vital in my growth. …

First, let me say that I love poster-style dashboards. Just take a look at Jennifer Dawes and Chimdi Nwosu’s profiles to see some amazing examples. It’s also important to note that I only use storytelling techniques with my Tableau Public community projects; these tips don’t apply to business dashboards. What…

Hello everyone and Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a safe, happy holiday season. With a new year it’s a great time to start a new initiative! That’s where #VizCollab comes in. …

“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes There are a lot of articles and books written about how collaboration in the workplace is key to achieving great heights. The same is true for collaborating on data visualizations…