Week 24: Tourism Density Index
This week’s recap about the Tourism Density Index comes to you from Berlin, where I am playing tourist myself and enjoying a few days in the capital.
Week 23: U.K. Gender Pay Gap
The UK recently release data on the gender pay gap at companies across the country. For week 23, the Community created lots of great visualizations to communicate the disparity amongst many companies.
Week 22: The World’s Most Expensive Prime Property
For week 22 we used a simple dataset about prime property prices in selected cities around the world.
Week 21: Premier League Predictions vs. Reality
The Premier League season has come to a close. How well did the Guardian predict the table? The #MakeoverMonday community shows you how well they did.
Week 20: Congestion in major European Cities
Andy and I are huge fans of simplicity and this week’s dataset was nice and simple, giving everyone a chance to stick to the basics if they want to and enjoy the nice (Northern Hemisphere) spring weather instead of spending many hours building vizzes. We asked...
Week 19: Toughest Sport by Skill
What is the toughest sport by skill according to American sports experts? Plus lessons about complex metrics and using lines for discrete values.
Week 18: Bee Colony Loss
Bee Colony Loss is a serious topic that impacts all of us and the environment we live in, so we visualized data for the US this week to highlight the problem.
Week 17: Ecological Footprint per Capita
Week 17 was a collaborating with Global Footprint Network to raise awareness about our ecological footprint on Earth Day
Week 16: Zambia Southern Province Confirmed Malaria Cases
We were delighted to collaborate with PATH.org this week and in particular use simulated data from their Visualize No Malaria project.
Week 15: Arctic Sea Ice Extent
The Arctic is melting and this week the Makeover Monday Community helped tell the story of our rising seas.
Week 14: World Wine Production
For week 14, we challenged the Makeover Monday community to create data stories from a data set about global wine production
Week 13: What is the UK’s Favorite Chocolate Bar?
The goal for week 13 was to answer a simple question: Which chocolate bar do Brits prefer the most?
Week 12: UK Pet Population in 2017
For week 12 we asked the community to work with data about the UK’s pet population, comparing different animals and their popularity as pets.
Week 11: Growth in Irish Whiskey Sales
We saw the creativity come out during week 11 as the vizzers came out trying to win some whiskey!
Week 10: What Policymakers Know About Women and Girl Issues
This week we’re collaborating with Equal Measures 2030 and Tableau Public for International Women’s Day.
St. Patrick’s Day Special
Makeover Monday week 11 is going to have a whisky theme and prizes!
Week 9: World Economic Freedom
#MakeoverMonday Week 9 2018 Recap: World Economic Freedom | This week’s lessons are about highlighting and working with an index.
Week 8: Where does your Medicine come from?
After last week’s Olympic medal focus, this week we shifted gears completely and brought you data about the value of pharmaceutical drug exports by country from 2013-2017.
Week 7: The Winter Olympics
It’s time for the Winter Olympic Games! For week 7, we visualized historical medal winners from Games gone past.
Week 6: Baseball Demographics 1947 – 2016
February is Black History Month and we challenged the Makeover Monday community to join the collaboration with Tableau and other data projects including Storytelling with Data, Viz for Social Good and Data for Democracy to visualize diversity.
Week 5: What the Most Profitable Companies Make per Second
Week 5 looked at the top 25 most profitable companies per second in the Fortune 500. Also two lessons learned about scatter plots and assumptions about the data set.
Week 4: Migration of Turkey Vultures in North and South America
The dataset contained migration data for turkey vultures in North and South America and came from a research paper studying the patterns of their migration.
Week 3: U.S. Household Income Distribution by State
For week 3, we looked at income distribution in the US and learned lessons about attention to detail and sense checking your data.
Week 2: Looks vs Personality
For this week’s makeover we looked at survey data analysing responses to the question of what is most important for people in a romantic partner.
Week 1: U.S. Per Capita Consumption of Poultry and Livestock
For #MakeoverMonday week 1, the Community looked at U.S. Per Capita Consumption of Poultry and Livestock. This week, there are 5 lessons for you.
Week 52: Christmas tree sales in the US
For the last week of the year I chose Christmas data after Andy made me do it. I had initially picked a really cute data set but don’t worry it will come in the new year. So this time we looked at Christmas tree sales in the US. Are you buying real or fake trees?
Week 51: Global Temperature Anomalies
With two weeks to go in the year, Eva and I thought it would be good to give everyone one last chance this year to play with a massive dataset. For week 51, I took 176M record collected by Ken Black via NOAA of global temperature readings, used Alteryx to upload the...
Makeover Monday in 2018
Today Andy and I revealed our plans for the coming year and what we will change and improve about Makeover Monday to continue delivering value for the community and to further grow the project.
Week 50: Barrier Free Singapore
For week 50 we teamed up with Tableau Singapore to bring you a data visualization challenge looking at building accessibility in Singapore.
Week 49: The Cost of a Curry at Wetherspoon
Only a couple more weeks and we’ll be done with Makeover Monday 2017 edition. This year sure has flown by! Eva finally caught me up on the plans for 2018, which we’ll share on December 20. Sign up for the webinar here. If you’re wondering why I chose...Makeover Monday collaborates with Tableau Singapore
Next week we’re collaborating with Tableau Singapore to build on the great work they have done with students at a recent Academic Day
Week 48: The World as 100 People
100 weeks of #MakeoverMonday. We may be going on about it a bit… well, it is a significant milestone and one we’ve truly enjoyed reaching together with all of you, our community of contributors who create vizzes and data stories every week, no matter what...
Week 47: Snapchat is Tops with American Teens
We’re almost there everyone! 47 weeks down, five to go! Keep up the amazing work! This week we tried to get inside the brains of American teens by analysing their favorite social networks over the past three years. The data set contained only 24 records, which...
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Week 46: The World’s Top Cities for Sustainable Public Transport
After last week’s smashing results with endless great vizzes and submissions for Makeover Monday, we have another strong week behind us with many excellent visualizations built on a dataset about sustainable public transport in cities around the world.
Week 45: Life Expectancy at Birth
The Makeover Monday Community never ceases to amaze me! What a week! A really simple data set, yet way over 250 different visualisation. You all inspire us! There’s a lot to cover this week, so let’s get to it. MAKEOVER MONDAY LIVE! Eva and I ran...
Week 44: Mapped – the countries with the most bank holidays
For week 44 I chose a dataset that wasn’t easy but contained geographical data and dealt with public holidays around the world.
Week 43: How Frequent Is My Myers-Briggs Type?
Makeover Monday week 43 looked at the personality types of Americans and how we compare to them
Week 42: Formula E
A week for Formula E and two live Makeover Monday events in Munich an Milan.
Week 41: Obesity in America
What an amazing week for Makeover Monday! The week started with a mere 500 of us together in a room in Vegas at TC17 vizzing about obesity in America. Last year in Austin we had 100 people attend and it was full about an hour before the start. We never could have...
Week 40: The UK economy since the Brexit vote
This week’s makeover focused on GDP growth for G7 countries, the UK in particular, and many people used the rather simple dataset to create makeovers.
Week 39 – Restricted Dietary Requirements Around the Globe
Week 39 saw lots of simple vizzes using simple data about restricted dietary requirements around the globe
Week 38: A Day at the Races
For week 38 we challenged the community to analyze and visualize our race data, which we produced on Sunday as Andy ran the Richmond Marathon and I competed at the Sprint Triathlon Age Group World Championship in Rotterdam.
A Day at the Races
September 17, 2017 marks a challenging day on our calendar, as both Andy and I competed in our chosen sports. For Andy it was a marathon, for me a sprint distance triathlon. We’re challenging you to create a makeover of our race results. As our sports are quite...
Week 37: Stolen Bikes in the UK
Week 37 looked at the crazy number of bikes stolen in the UK.
A personal Makeover Monday edition
On Sunday, 17 September 2017, Andy and I will both be racing. Andy is doing the Richmond Marathon in preparation for his A race this autumn in Frankfurt in October. I will be in Rotterdam for this season’s last triathlon, competing at the Age Group Sprint...
Week 36: The UN SDG Action Campaign My World Survey
For week 36, we teamed up with Chloe Tseng and #VizForSocialGood in a collaboration with the United Nations SDG Action campaign to visualize survey results for the MyWorld survey looking at people’s perception on the successful (or not) achievement of sustainable development goals.
Week 35 – Player Arrests in the NFL Since 2000
Week 35 took a look at players arrested in the NFL since 2000
Week 34 – 5,000 years of Solar Eclipses
For this week’s #MakeoverMonday we challenged you to visualize 5,000 years of solar eclipse data, provided by NASA.
Makeover Monday and Viz for Social Good collaboration with the UN
Makeover Monday & Viz For Social Good collaborate with the UN to support the Sustainable Development Goals Action Campaign ahead of the UN General Assembly in New York City.
Week 33 – The Timing of Baby Making
Babies! They’re cute. They’re cuddly. But when are they made?
Week 32 – India’s broken toilets
As we reflect on another big week of makeovers, there were numerous impactful vizzes that pointed out the issues faced in rural Indian schools where access to functioning toilets is often lacking.
Week 31 – The Southeast Asian Games
For Makeover Monday week 31, the Community visualised the Southeast Asian Games. How did they do?
Week 30 – How thirsty is our food?
The topic for this week was ‘How thirsty is your food’ with a dataset about the water footprint of common categories, such as different types of meat, dairy, fruit and vegetables, pulses and nuts.
Makeover Monday becomes a BrightTALK Partner
We are delighted to announce that we have become a BrightTALK partner, which means that we now have our own channel for live webinars and sharing content.
Week 29 – How Trump and Obama’s Staff Salaries Spread Across The Board
For week 29, the Community looked at the salaries of the last Obama administration compared to Trump’s first administration.
Week 28 – The Tour de France
Le Tour de France is in full swing so our community analysed the results of the last 103 races
Week 27 – Tourism in Berlin and Brandenburg
Week 27 included two Makeover Monday Live sessions, the EXASOL Xperience conference, and lots of great vizzes! See who the favorites were this week and what lessons we learned.
Recap: Makeover Monday live in Berlin
Makeover Monday on Tour made a stop in Berlin.
Week 26 – German Car Production and Exports
We have reached the half-way mark of 2017 this week as we analyse German car production and export data
Recap: Makeover Monday Live in Hamburg
Makeover Monday Live descended upon Hamburg Thursday and what a turnout it was!
Recap: Makeover Monday live in Frankfurt
After running Makeover Monday live events in Sydney, Paris, Amsterdam and London earlier this year, it was time for us to make an appearance in Germany. Our first stop? Frankfurt!
Week 25 – Air Quality Above America
How has America’s Air Quality changed from 1990-2016? The Makeover Monday Community has some answers.
Week 24 – The Tate Collection
This week we analysed data from the Tate Collection, including metadata about thousands of paintings and drawings
Week 23 – America’s National Parks
Week 23 Recap & 5 Lessons Learned – America’s National Parks
Recap: Makeover Monday live at #data17 Tableau Conference on Tour London
Read about our live Makeover Monday event at #data17 in London on June 5
Week 22 – Internet users per 100 people
For week 22 we looked at global internet users across almost 200 countries.
Week 21 – Are Britons falling out of love with booze?
For week 21, we looked at the changing drinking habits of Brits. Are they drinking less? If so, who is?
Recap: Makeover Monday live at #ParisTUG
The organisers of the Paris Tableau User Group spoke to us a couple of months ago and invited us to host a #MakeoverMonday live event at one of their meetups. A trip to Paris in late spring to talk to fellow Tableau enthusiasts about data and Makeover Monday? Sounds...
Week 20 – Youth Employment in Latin America and the Caribbean
This week’s Makeover Monday challenge saw us collaborate with #VizForSocialGood and the Inter-American Development Bank to analyse Youth Employment in Latin America and the Caribbean
Recap: Makeover Monday Live in The Netherlands
Makeover Monday Live made a stop at ANWB in The Netherlands last week. Read more to see how it went.
Week 19 – Which cars do the Dutch purchase?
For week 19, we reviewed auto registration in the Netherlands.
Week 18 – Sydney Ferry Patronage
In week 18 we analyzed Sydney ferry trips and welcomed a number of new members to our MakeoverMonday community.
Makeover Monday live in Sydney
As the community continues to grow and the project is picking up momentum among Tableau enthusiasts and dataviz people across the globe, running two live MakeoverMonday meetups in Sydney was a great way to connect with the Australian data visualization community.
Week 17 – Data Skills Are in Huge Demand
For week 17 we teamed up with Tableau to look at LinkedIn’s ranking of the skills that are most in demand. From a selfish perspective for Makeover Monday, it’s pretty amazing to have such close support from Tableau. What’s even better is that Tableau...
Week 16 – Medicine Statistics: GP Prescribing Data (England)
For week 16 we gave the #MakeoverMonday community A LOT of data to work with. 784 million records of medications being prescribed by GPs in England between Aug 2010 and Jan 2017.
Let’s play with some Big A$$ Numbers again
We did it in week 6 and we’re doing it again in week 16: We’re giving you a big dataset to work with so you can flex your analytical muscles, try something different, find an interesting story or literally just throw some really big figures on your dashboard.
Week 15 – The Price of Oil vs. The Price of Gold
Week 15 explored the relationship between the price of gold and the price of oil as we looked back at one of Andy’s first Tableau visualizations
Week 14 – Millions of UK workers at risk of being replaced by robots
During week 14 we looked at job automation and the potential impact of robots and AI on the UK employment market.
Week 13 – The Secret of Success
Week 13 took a look at a Russian survey about the secret of success. Dot plot, bump charts, bar charts, radar charts. This week had it all! Plus seven lessons to take on board.
Week 12 – March Madness
We looked at March Madness data for week 12, highlighting the phenomenon that is US college basketball. Quite a few vizzes showed the passion that exists with people and the strong affiliation they have with their teams and those of us outside of the US got a great lesson about basketball
Week 11 – The Likelihood of Orgasm
Over 100 vizzes about the frequency of orgasms in week 11. Looks like a lot of satisfied customers.
Week 10 – Top 500 YouTube Gaming Channels
During week 10 we used SocialBlade‘s statistics on the Top 500 YouTube Gaming Channels to improve on their simple table and create vizzes that would convey the information better than the original.
Week 9 – Andy’s American Express Spending
Week 9 recap, including four lessons to help everyone improve as data analysts and storytellers
Makeover Monday at Saint Joseph’s University
Read about the Tableau community at Saint Joseph’s University where students are leading the way to teach their peers about data and data visualization through weekly Tableau clinics and #MakeoverMonday sessions
Week 8 – The EU Potato Sector
Everyone loves spuds! In week 8 we looked at the EU Potato Sector. Many authors kept their vizzes nice and simple, while still using the ‘potato theme’ in their colour choices
Week 7 – How Much Do Americans Spend on Valentine’s Day?
Love was in the air for week 7 and 111 vizzes later, we have some really amazing visualisations!
Week 6 – Inside Chicago’s Taxi Data
A HUGE week for Makeover Monday as everyone got to play with a lot of data. We saw great, creative designs, stunning variations of the black and yellow taxi theme and really cool visualisations using maps and animations.
Monday is coming – and with it some big data
For week 6 we change things up and bring you A LOT of data. We let you connect to EXASOL so you can work with 105 million records live in Tableau.
Week 5 – Employment Growth in G-7 Countries
In week 5, we challenged the Makeover Monday community to makeover a set of pie charts.
Week 4 – Domestic and International Tourism Spend in New Zealand
In week 4 we looked at Tourism spend data for New Zealand. Submissions investigated New Zealand’s seasonal trends and the impact of the film industry, as well as sporting events, extreme weather and earthquakes on tourism
Week 3 – The 294 Accounts Donald Trump Retweeted During The Election
Week 3 was Inauguration Week in the U.S., so we decided to makeover a bubble chart of President-Elect Trump’s tweets.
Week 2 – Have Apple Lost Their Edge With iPhone?
For the 10th anniversary of the iPhone we analysed iPhone sales data over the years.
Week 1 – Australia’s Gender Pay Gap
Makeover Monday 2017 starts by looking at the gender wage gap in Australia.