Blog Posts in April 2011

Comments We Caught Royal Vizzing Fever from Lori Williams and Ross Perez - Apr. 29th 2011 Have you had enough of William and Kate yet? No? Well, have we got vizzes for you! First, check out our interactive seating chart to see who got the sweet seats. Then, explore tweets from London today. The Royal Wedding - Who's Sitting Where? To see where different categories of guests sat, use the ... Category Travel and Lifestyle Read more...	Comments The Top 100 vizes of Q1 2011 by amorrison@table... - Apr. 26th 2011 The top 100 vizzes of 2011 are in and a new author is crowned champion. The New Scientist's Peter Aldhous claimed the top spot with his anxiety-inducing viz showing the location of the world's nuclear reactors. Second place went to perennial powerhouse Al Melchior of CBS Sports for his fantasy baseball viz. Timothy Ellis of ... Read more...
Comments Congratulations Paige! from Alex Morrison - Apr. 26th 2011 We want to congratulate Paige St. John, the winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reporter won for her 2-year investigation of the Read more...	Comments Is gold a bubble? from Ross Perez - Apr. 25th 2011 Is gold a bubble? Although prices have certainly risen recently, it is difficult to tell. By comparing the rise of gold recently to bubbles in the past, we can get a better handle on the nature of the recent uptick. How does Gold Compare to Past Bubbles? As you can see, gold has steadily risen over ... Read more...
Comments Chad Skelton Can't Stop Vizzing from Chad Skelton - Apr. 13th 2011 "If you really want to get serious about online graphics, you have to check out Tableau Public." So says Chad Skelton of the Vancouver Sun in the most recent Category Government and Public Data Read more...	Comments How to Shape Your Data by amorrison@table... - Apr. 7th 2011 Unfortunately, data isn’t always in the format that Tableau likes it. That’s okay – we can fix that. The following is a step by step guide to reshaping your data so you can make the most of it in Tableau. First, make sure there are no blank rows or columns within your data set. That’s usually pretty easy to fix manually ... Read more...
Comments Choropleth Counties by Ross Perez - Apr. 4th 2011 Choosing how to display data is often the most difficult part of the data visualization process. Would a bar chart be superior to a pie? Perhaps a scatter would tell more than two bar charts? One of the most difficult of these choices is between filled maps (choropleth) and shapes. The Neverending Debate: Choropleth or ... Category Government and Public Data Read more...