Data Visualization

I wrote this on my phone one night after my 4th makeover. I didn’t work up the courage to publish it at the time, but I am going to do it now (~9 months later). For those who don’t know me, my name is Dorian, and I discovered MakeoverMonday about 10 months ago. I got […]

Stacked bar charts are difficult to interpret more often than not.

One thing we can do is to use percentages instead of the actual values. Comparing the top and bottom segments becomes easier, but we lose track of the totals, and we still have difficulties with the middle parts.

To focus on one category at a time while keeping the others in sight, I implemented an interactive component to move the part of the bars we’re interested in at the bottom.

Also called theme rivers and in some cases steam graphs. It all started with this viz by Alex Jones: From the moment I saw it, I knew I wanted to create one by myself. Fortunately, Alex offered some insights on how he did it, but he didn’t give up the whole thing. Reverse engineering is […]

… or concurrent lollipops and dumbbells chart. For this week’s MakeoverMonday we looked at women representation in the House of Representatives (no pun intended). I came up with a population pyramid style chart. I put Democrats versus Republicans, where we would typically have men and women diverging to the left and right. So here’s the […]

… all while keeping the overall trend in the view. To put it simply, this is what we want to achieve: The chart shows the average price of an avocado in the US by week (data source). The line at the top shows the same data as below, only “zoomed” to a predefined period. I […]

In this article, I want to show you how I built a beeswarm chart in Tableau (with a little help from R):
1. Design process
2. Data workflow between R and Tableau
3. Using only R to create the chart
4. How it can be done 100% in Tableau using Table Calculations

Enjoy!