by Andy Kriebel | Mar 8, 2019 | Blog |
Makeover Monday has been a significant part of my life since April 2014. Making over charts has helped me learn to tell better stories and to become a better data analyst. It helped me last a job at Facebook. Fast forward to 2016. Andy Cotgreave joined me and Makeover...
by Andy Kriebel | Feb 1, 2019 | Blog |
Viz Review week five was a slight change from normal programming. We asked at the beginning of the webinar if people were ok with giving up a few minutes of viz review for some more demos. The majority wanted more demos, so off I went. There were four vizzes I saw on...
by Andy Kriebel | Jan 24, 2019 | Blog |
For the demo at the end of this week’s Viz Review (watch the video here), we started by exploring the data. We built a few line charts and a heatmap to understand the data. We then decided to extend on some of the feedback that we gave to Kuldeep Ram for this...
by Andy Kriebel | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog |
For this week’s Viz Review, we ended the session with three demos in 12 minutes (watch the recording here). We started with a makeover of this viz by Kuldeep Ram. The idea here was to simplify the color and the clutter. Following the makeover of the makeover,...
by Andy Kriebel | Jan 9, 2019 | Blog |
One of our favorite segments of Viz Review (watch the week 2 recording here) is the live demo. The live demo is an idea Eva came up with towards the end of last year as a way for us to show how you can build something quickly that communicates well. We time box this...
by Andy Kriebel | Dec 5, 2018 | Blog |
At the end of Viz Review, we do our best to designated the last ten minutes to a demo that will show you how to create an effective visualization quickly. Today, I demoed how to created a trellis chart of the percentage of male to female contributors to New York Times...
by Andy Kriebel | Nov 24, 2018 | Blog |
Original visualization | Data set on data.world | Viz Review Webinar I’m going to start with a complaint. There is an assumption that if you submit your work for Viz Review, you will iterate on it. Far too many people received feedback and didn’t iterate....
by Andy Kriebel | Nov 15, 2018 | Blog |
At the end of Viz Review, we do our best to make time for a quick demo and different take on the data set for that week. During Viz Review, we gave feedback to Steve Gesuale on this viz of his about diversity in tech. A view asked how to build this type...
by Andy Kriebel | Oct 3, 2018 | Blog |
Today we tried out a new format for Viz Review where we would review vizzes for 60 minutes, then I would do a 10 minute demo of a dashboard that could be built quickly and still look good. I didn’t have time to prepare anything, so I made it up on the fly,...
