Shapeshifting Tile Maps in Tableau
Ken FlerlageDecember 22, 2017
In the past few days, we’ve seen a resurgence of innovation with hex maps in Tableau. The technique was first developed by Matt Chambers ...
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Custom Tile Cartograms in Tableau
Ken FlerlageDecember 16, 2017
Last September, in the height of election season, Matt Chambers wrote a brilliant blog post showing how to create a FiveThirtyEight style...
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Space Junk: Every Satellite in Earth Orbit
Ken FlerlageDecember 09, 2017
I recently came across a very nice interactive data visualization by David Yanofsky and Tim Fernholz . The visualization shows, in a ver...
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Don’t Be An A##hole
Ken FlerlageDecember 04, 2017
Warning # 1: If you’re a regular reader of my blog, then be forewarned that this blog post has pretty much nothing to do with data or a...
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Geometric Art in Tableau
Ken FlerlageDecember 01, 2017
One of my more popular projects this year was Creating Loom Art in Tableau . I wasn’t sure how people would react to it, but was pleased ...
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Tableau Beyond "Show Me" Part 3: Parametric Equations
Ken FlerlageNovember 23, 2017
This is part 3 of a 3 part series on going beyond the charts available in the “Show Me” panel in Tableau. You can read the previous posts...
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Tableau Beyond "Show Me" Part 2: Trigonometry
Ken FlerlageNovember 18, 2017
This is part 2 of a 3 part series on going beyond the charts available in the “Show Me” panel in Tableau. See the first part of the seri...
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Tableau Beyond “Show Me” Part 1: It’s All About the X & Y
Ken FlerlageNovember 10, 2017
This is part 1 of a 3 part series on going beyond the charts available in the “Show Me” panel in Tableau. In this first post, I’ll dig in...
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Loom Art in Tableau
Ken FlerlageNovember 07, 2017
Recently, I completed a project which entailed visualizing the digits of Pi in an artistic manner (see The Beauty of Pi ). One of my ma...
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The Beauty of Pi
Ken FlerlageOctober 27, 2017
If you read my blog regularly, you’ll know that my work is often inspired by someone else’s work. This post is no different. In September...
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Iron Viz Gender Diversity
Ken FlerlageOctober 25, 2017
Two weeks ago, I attended my first Tableau Conference and it was amazing. It was my first chance to meet many of the members of the commu...
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Alternatives to NPS Gauges
Ken FlerlageSeptember 27, 2017
A few months ago, I wrote a blog post explaining how to create the following Net Promoter Score (NPS) gauge in Tableau .
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The Masters of Chess
Ken FlerlageSeptember 24, 2017
A few weeks ago, I saw the following Twitter conversation between Andy Cotgreave and Neil Richards :
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The Happiest Animal in the World: The Quokka
Ken FlerlageSeptember 12, 2017
Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of people posting selfies of a marsupial called a Quokka. Here’s an example:
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How to Create Your Own “My Vizzes” Viz
Ken FlerlageSeptember 05, 2017
A couple of weeks ago, I created a “My Vizzes” visualization which showed various details about my Tableau Public visualizations. If you h...
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The State of Data Visualization
Ken FlerlageSeptember 03, 2017
In February, 2017, Elijah Meeks, Senior Data Visualization Engineer at Netflix, started some serious conversations about the state of dat...
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600 Years of Armed Conflict
Ken FlerlageAugust 25, 2017
I recently came across an amazing data set called the “Conflict Catalog”, created by Peter Brecke, which details 600 years of armed confl...
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Vizzes About My Vizzes
Ken FlerlageAugust 23, 2017
A few months back, I saw two posts, one by Ryan Sleeper and one by Matt Chambers , which celebrated their Tableau Public pages reaching...
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IronViz: Sharknado Death Toll
Ken FlerlageAugust 13, 2017
The final 2017 Tableau Iron Viz feeder competition ends tomorrow. The category is Silver Screen—visualizations related to film and/or te...
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IronViz: Middle Earth Facebook
Ken FlerlageAugust 03, 2017
So the third and final 2017 IronViz feeder competition is here and the subject is Silver Screen. Competitors have to visualize data relat...
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Word Usage in Sacred Texts
Ken FlerlageJuly 27, 2017
During the 2016 presidential election, I spent a lot of time analyzing the word usage of speeches and debates and I thought it was in...
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Creating NPS Gauges in Tableau
Ken FlerlageJuly 25, 2017
Update April 18, 2020 : This has become one of my most popular blogs since I first wrote it back in 2017. Unfortunately, I’ve found tha...
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A Retrospective on One Year Using Tableau
Ken FlerlageJuly 09, 2017
On June 30, 2016, I published my first ever Tableau visualization, a very simple map showing my projections for the 2016 presidential e...
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Viz For Social Good: Central Asia Institute
Ken FlerlageJuly 02, 2017
I have always believed that education is one of the key answers to the world’s biggest problems. Many years ago, I began supporting a sm...
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The Killing Fields: The Rhino Poaching Crisis #IronViz
Ken FlerlageJune 17, 2017
Note: This is a detailed post about the creation of my entry into the second 2017 Iron Viz feeder. In the post, I detail my thought proce...
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Demers Cartograms and Other Maps of Africa
Ken FlerlageJune 09, 2017
Last fall, I came across the following visual in National Geographic:
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The Mercator Problem
Ken FlerlageJune 01, 2017
I’ve been thinking a lot about maps lately. More specifically, I’ve been thinking about how easily they can deceive us. Take the Mer...
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A Law and Order SVU Viz for My Wife
Ken FlerlageMay 18, 2017
My wife is a huge fan of Law and Order: SVU . She may not be the show’s biggest fan, but she’s definitely up there. SVU will finish it...
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Retired Numbers
Ken FlerlageMay 13, 2017
On Sunday May 14, the Yankees will officially retire Derek Jeter’s # 2. While I’m not a Yankees fan, it’s hard to deny that Derek Jeter w...
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Swimming World Records
Ken FlerlageMay 08, 2017
Here’s a visualization I recently created showing swimming world records. At the top, you can see a breakdown of records (long course o...
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Battle of the Hit Kings: Rose vs. Ichiro
Ken FlerlageApril 28, 2017
I grew up in Northern Kentucky, just south of Cincinnati. As a kid, I was a huge Reds fan and why shouldn’t I be? After all, I was bo...
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Famous Trees of North America
Ken FlerlageApril 20, 2017
In honor of Arbor Day, which is next Friday, I wanted to post an analysis or visualization relating to trees. I finally settled on doin...
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The Solar System to Scale
Ken FlerlageApril 14, 2017
All us of remember learning about the Solar System in school. It is, for most schoolchildren, our first introduction to astronomy and t...
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Tardigrades: Invisible and Invincible
Ken FlerlageApril 07, 2017
For some time now, I have admired the beautiful and incredibly informative animal visualizations of Jonni Walker and I’ve been wanti...
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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (with a Graph Database)
Ken FlerlageApril 02, 2017
Just about everyone from my generation (I was an 80’s kid) knows the “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” game. The basic concept is that every...
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Visualizing Ms. Pac-Man High Scores
Ken FlerlageMarch 26, 2017
I was a kid during the early 1980’s, the golden age of arcade video games. I loved going to the arcade and using whatever pocket money I...
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The Art of Gerrymandering #IronViz
Ken FlerlageMarch 20, 2017
I’m still very much a Tableau newbie. My first ever visualization was a simple election choropleth last June. So this is the first Table...
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Some Tableau Geocoding Tricks
Ken FlerlageMarch 09, 2017
Some Tableau Geocoding Tricks A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post and created a visualization show...
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Recreating “The Scream” in Tableau
Ken FlerlageMarch 05, 2017
A few months ago, I saw a post by one of my favorite Tableau authors, Josh Tapley, on how to create ASC...
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Word Analysis: The Tao Te Ching
Ken FlerlageMarch 01, 2017
“He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty." ― The Tao Te Ching Note: This is the third post in a ...
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What’s the Best NCAA Bracket Strategy?
Ken FlerlageFebruary 24, 2017
I spent the first 22 years of my life in Kentucky. Anyone who grew up in the Commonwealth has no choice but to be a college basketball f...
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UFO Sightings of 2016: A Recreation of a John Nelson Infographic
Ken FlerlageFebruary 20, 2017
For some time now, I’ve been wanting to create a visualization showing UFO sightings. I found that the ...
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The Most Valuable Fantasy Football Players of the Last Decade - Take 2
Ken FlerlageFebruary 14, 2017
On Monday, I finished up an analysis and visualization showing what I thought were the top Fantasy Footba...
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Creating a Heart in Tableau
Ken FlerlageFebruary 13, 2017
This weekend, I create a Valentine for my wife, using Tableau, which visualized each of the 6,542 days we’ve been together (yeah, I know...
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The Most Valuable Fantasy Football Players of the Last Decade
Ken FlerlageFebruary 12, 2017
Update 02/15/2017 : After posting this on a fantasy football Reddit, I was heavily criticized for a few failures. I then made a number ...
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A Comparison of NFL Coaches
Ken FlerlageFebruary 06, 2017
Bill Belichick just won his fifth Super Bowl championship, further solidifying his standing as the best coach of the modern era. Belic...
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Visualizing Earthquakes
Ken FlerlageFebruary 03, 2017
I’ve been thinking it would be interesting to visualize all the earthquakes which have occurred in the recent past. I started, of course...
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Word Analysis: The Bhagavad Gita
Ken FlerlageJanuary 29, 2017
“For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters.” ― The B...
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Global Participation in the Women’s March
Ken FlerlageJanuary 22, 2017
The Women’s March on Washington was held yesterday and the participation was incredible. Not only did hundreds of thousands of women (an...
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My Thoughts on Bump Charts and When to Use Them
Ken FlerlageJanuary 18, 2017
Bump charts have a relatively simple purpose—they are used to visualize changes in rank over time. Here’s an example from Tim Brock’s Da...
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