by Eva Murray | Jan 20, 2020 | Makeover Monday, Tableau
For week 3, Charlie picked an article and a viz about sugar and the high level of consumption of sugar in the UK by different age groups. Here is the original viz from the BBC:...
by Eva Murray | Jan 13, 2020 | Makeover Monday, Tableau
A few weeks ago I came across a fascinating and terrifying research paper that detailed just how much pesticide use there is in the US, particularly using chemicals that are banned in many other countries because they are deemed unsafe for humans. The paper contains a...
by Eva Murray | Dec 29, 2019 | Makeover Monday, Tableau
So it has arrived, Andy’s last week as co-host of #MakeoverMonday. After 4 years of running this project (first with Andy Cotgreave, then with me), he is handing over the baton to Charlie to focus on other life projects. For his last dataset choice, Andy selected data...
by Eva Murray | Dec 22, 2019 | Makeover Monday, Tableau
My last dataset for this year falls into Christmas week, so after a little convincing from Andy I set aside the data I had originally planned to use and picked a simple Christmas spending dataset from the Deloitte Christmas Survey 2019. Here is the original viz: What...
by Eva Murray | Dec 16, 2019 | Makeover Monday, Tableau
For this week, Andy chose a Basketball dataset. My expertise on that topic is limited to the claim of coming from the same town as the 6-time German champion team Brose Baskets. I went to see one of their games and all I remember is that it was really loud and fast...
by Eva Murray | Dec 2, 2019 | Makeover Monday, Tableau
For week 49, Andy picked a dataset about union membership, from an article by Mona Chalabi, who writes for the Guardian and is a recognised journalist who uses data visualisation and data art to make information more accessible. I like Mona’s work and have read...