In my last post, I walked through how I built a Tableau Public viz about the amazing number of aircraft built in 1946 that are still flying. This post digs into how I incorporated some nifty aircraft photos into the viz. First the underlying question: Why? I mean, of course I love to look at →
I’m a historical aviation nut, so when I recently looked for some public data to play with, I turned to the FAA’s database of all civilian aircraft registered in the United States. My curiosity paid off because my first foray into that data led to an interesting topic for viz on Tableau Public. This post →
Below is a viz I published on Tableau Public viz and embedded in this blog post to demonstrate the ability to easily enhance web pages with interactive data visualizations. It also takes advantage of Tableau’s Device Designer to optimize the layout for mobile devices. View this page on a mobile phone and notice how the →
I work on a team that builds Tableau dashboards for hundreds of users spread across the US. We’ve been looking at ways to improve our overall user experience, and have started investigating how many users are accessing our dashboards via desktop vs. mobile devices. Our goal was to make a data-driven decision about how much →
Way back when I worked in the newspaper industry, I got to participate in the transition from laying out pages with x-acto knives and glue to desktop publishing. The old method was called “cold type” because it replaced something called “hot type” that I never got to see. This video shows what an amazing feat →