by Eva Murray | Apr 3, 2021 | Blog |
Original visualization | Data set on data.world | Viz Review Webinar FAVORITES Created by: Kimberly Furdell Created by: Valentin Kästner Created by: Amanda Lopez Created by: EK Data Created by: Lesley Created by: Ant...
by Eva Murray | Jan 15, 2021 | Blog |
Original visualization | Data set on data.world | Viz Review Webinar...
by Eva Murray | Jan 8, 2021 | Blog |
Original visualization | Data set on data.world | Viz Review Webinar...
by Eva Murray | Dec 24, 2020 | Blog |
Original visualization | Data set on data.world | Viz Review Webinar...
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 26, 2017 | Blog |
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. We are excited to take our engagement with the data viz community to the next level to help everyone learn more,...
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 | 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 | May 23, 2017 | Blog |
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...
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 | May 3, 2017 | Blog |
What a way to kick off May! This week I had the honour to facilitate and co-host not just one but two live MakeoverMonday events in Sydney. As the community continues to grow and the project is picking up momentum among Tableau enthusiasts and dataviz people across...
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...
by Eva Murray | Mar 10, 2017 | Blog |
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. There were a number of really good submissions this week and I...
by Eva Murray | Feb 24, 2017 | Blog |
For week 8 of Makeover Monday we looked at the EU potato sector, including harvested production, cultivated areas, yield and prices. Why did I pick data about potatoes? Because I love potatoes. I think they’re the best vegetable in the world and most people at...
by Eva Murray | Feb 10, 2017 | Blog |
In Week 6 we challenged the community to work with a rather large dataset and create a makeover of a couple of simple line charts that visualised taxi trips and fares for Chicago from 2013 – 2016. We provided a data extract for 2015/2016 data as well as the full...
by Eva Murray | Feb 4, 2017 | Blog |
The dataset for Makeover Monday Week 6 was the result of a small misunderstanding. Andy asked me for a dataset for his live #MakeoverMonday session which he is running on 6 February at Tableau HQ in London. He wanted to use Chicago Taxi data in EXASOL for his initial...
by Eva Murray | Jan 27, 2017 | Blog |
Wow, another week of Makeover Monday has already flown by and there were 90 submissions as of Friday morning (CET). This week we looked at Domestic and International New Zealand Tourism Spend. I hope everyone enjoyed the challenge and had a chance to learn a bit about...
by Andy Kriebel | Jan 20, 2017 | Blog |
For week 3, given it was Inauguration Week in the U.S., we decided to makeover a bubble chart of President-Elect Trump’s tweets. The data set provided came from Trump Twitter Archive and we ran into a couple hiccups: In the TDE I created, I thought it would be...
by Eva Murray | Jan 13, 2017 | Blog |
Week 2 was a makeover of a bar chart showing iPhone units sold since the first iPhone was released in 2007. This week we received over 150 submissions. In light of the criticism of the data for the week 1 challenge, I decided to state a few observations I made on the...
