by Eva Murray | May 4, 2018 | Blog |
Bee Colony Loss is a serious topic that impacts all of us and the environment we live in. Seriously. I picked this topic in the hope that the community would deliver a lot of great visualizations that bring the issue to life and break down the problem simply and...
by Eva Murray | Mar 9, 2018 | Blog |
This week we collaborated with Equal Measures 2030 and Tableau Public for International Women’s Day, using a dataset that shows how well informed policymakers across different countries about five particular issues relating to women and girls. I want to thank everyone...
by Eva Murray | Jan 27, 2018 | Blog |
Turkey Vultures. You didn’t expect that, did you? Yeah, me neither, and what a cool dataset it turned out to be! The dataset contained migration data for turkey vultures in North and South America and came from a research paper studying the patterns of their...
by Eva Murray | Dec 15, 2017 | Blog |
For week 50 we teamed up with Tableau Singapore to bring you a data visualization challenge looking at building accessibility in Singapore. The starting point was a map by Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority and we received over 75 submissions with...
by Eva Murray | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog |
Recently in Singapore, there was an Academic Day co-hosted by the Info-communications Media Development Authority and Tableau. Students ranging from Junior/Secondary School to Post-Secondary School showcased their analytic curiosity through Tableau. To educators and...
by Eva Murray | Dec 3, 2017 | Blog |
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...
by Eva Murray | Nov 17, 2017 | Blog |
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. This...
by Eva Murray | Nov 4, 2017 | Blog |
For week 44 I chose a dataset that wasn’t easy but contained geographical data. This was somewhat selfish as I needed to get a few ideas for our upcoming webinar with Mapbox. Seeing what people do with maps helps us create better content in the webinar. I also...
by Eva Murray | Oct 6, 2017 | Blog |
We’re at week 40 and only days away from TC17 and our biggest Makeover Monday live event of the year. Before I board that plane on Saturday morning to make my way to Sin City, there is a recap to write and this week’s Makeover Monday was another great...
by Eva Murray | Sep 22, 2017 | Blog |
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. This meant the data came out late on Sunday,...
by Eva Murray | Aug 25, 2017 | Blog |
For this week’s #MakeoverMonday we challenged you to visualize 5,000 years of solar eclipse data, provided by NASA. The resulting visualizations were a collection is informative, interactive, artistic and creatively designed stories about solar eclipses across...
by Eva Murray | Aug 11, 2017 | Blog |
With most of the northern hemisphere enjoying a summer break, you’d think there won’t be much dataviz action going on. The Makeover Monday community is not slacking off. As we reflect on another big week of makeovers, there were numerous impactful vizzes...
by Eva Murray | Jul 28, 2017 | Blog |
One of the fun parts of Makeover Monday is getting to pick a dataset and topic each week. It’s no big secret that I love food and I figured that lots of people do, because we all eat food every day. The topic for this week was ‘How thirsty is your...
by Eva Murray | Jul 14, 2017 | Blog |
Whenever we have data on a topic that’s a bit different from the ‘heavier’ datasets about government debt, employment rates or crime statistics, it can admittedly feel a bit self-indulgent. I like cycling, I like bikes and I like when people conquer...
by Eva Murray | Jul 5, 2017 | Blog |
We are on the road again. Or still. Whichever. But we’re in Berlin and it’s a fun place to be and we ran another #MakeoverMonday live event, held as part of Exasol’s Xperience2017 conference. The session was open to the public and a great opportunity...
by Eva Murray | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog |
Half-way there! Wow we made it to the half-way mark for 2017! 26 makeovers done, 26 to go. We have really enjoyed the past 6 months and it’s been a very successful time for the project and the dataviz community. We’ve welcomed many new participants and...
by Eva Murray | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog |
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. Yesterday we kicked off a week of ‘German Makeovers’ in Frankfurt, where The Information Lab hosted us...
by Eva Murray | Jun 16, 2017 | Blog |
This week we analysed data from the Tate Collection. Metadata about thousands of paintings and drawings and probably quite a different dataset for the Makeover Monday community. Oh the creativity! What I really liked seeing this week was the amount of...
by Eva Murray | Jun 8, 2017 | Blog |
The much anticipated Tableau Conference on Tour in London happened this week and day one didn’t just feature training and certification exams but also a live Makeover Monday session. Around 40 people gathered at the Box and Whisker Bistro to spend a couple of...
by Eva Murray | Jun 2, 2017 | Blog |
Who doesn’t love a map? For week 22 we looked at global internet users across almost 200 countries. Andy and I both had a fair bit of critique for the original viz and I am very pleased with the numerous great submissions from the community. WELL DONE!...
by Eva Murray | May 19, 2017 | Blog |
This week’s Makeover Monday challenge started a few weeks ago when the IADB contacted me about potentially doing a dataviz challenge with us. After chatting with them by email, I couldn’t wait to get Chloe involved, because this sounded like an excellent...
by Eva Murray | May 5, 2017 | Blog |
What a cool week for Makeover Monday. Aside from the live events that happened in Sydney, we also welcomed a number of new community members who submitted their first visualizations this week. The dataset contained aggregated Sydney ferry trips from July 2016 to...
by Eva Murray | Apr 21, 2017 | Blog |
For week 16 we gave the #MakeoverMonday community A LOT of data to work with. 784 million records to be exact. Why? Well, these were my reasons: It’s good to practice with datasets of varying sizes It gives people practice with other types of data sources. In...
by Eva Murray | Apr 7, 2017 | Blog |
During week 14 we looked at job automation and the potential impact of robots and AI on the UK employment market. The original article was sent to us by Nicholas Bignell and provided a lot of background information. I personally thought the topic was quite fascinating...
by Eva Murray | Mar 24, 2017 | Blog |
In a nod to our friends at Saint Joseph’s university in Philadelphia, I picked March Madness data for week 12, highlighting the phenomenon that is US college basketball. The original article focused on the challenges around predicting which teams will feature in...
