Vizible Difference

Today's Viz of the Day on 6/27/2016 is about the deaths in Game of the Thrones. Here is the link to the blog. Lots of context-based graphics made the viz really special and cool. Just love it. The author David Murphy did a lot of research and kept numbers of kills in book, an effort that I can only admire.

In the viz, there is a chart about the cumulative sum of kills since Season 1. I found a few things to tweak.

- The headers are not legible and some are wrapped around.

- Gridlines and column bands are redundant.

- The coloring scheme is redundant

Here are the tweaks I did:

- Changed header and episode names to be short

- The column bands are sufficient in distinguishing the seasons. Gridlines are unnecessary.

- The height of the bars are indicative of the quantity of the kills.

Today (6/22/2016)'s Tableau Viz of the Day presents an overview of the USA presidential election results from 1916 to 2012. This is the 2nd #VOTD in last few days following Matt Chambers's fantastic small multiple design on the same topic, to which I did some tweak to add visual tooltips.

Today's viz is very well designed based on heat maps. Especially, the author Jacob Olsufka has put in great effort in designing the tooltips with various colors, strings, conditional calculations etc.

The recent Tableau Viz of the Day on spelling bee by Harley Ellenberger is such a delightful masterpiece. It is very sophisticated with carefully selected color palette. I checked every word on it and learnt a few new ones!

Again I found something to tweak. Here is the result:

1.Most gridlines are ditched.

- In the bar chart, the bars of different years are already distinguished by colors. The vertical gridlines don't add any more structure to it at all.

Last week I made my first #MakeoverMonday entry. It is about a data set of Global Temperature 1850-2016. Among all the entries, one was outstanding and won the Tableau Viz of the Day award. It is a simple yet elegant design by Neil Richards, way better than what I did. I downloaded it and tried to animate it, like what I did in my own entry.

As the year started to play, I found something strange. The marks got populated from top to bottom.

There have been more and more excellent Tableau vizzes out there. There are part of them where I would tweak it in my way. It is far from a makeover though. Just some tweaks. And I would share the changes under a hashtag #TweakThursday. Hopefully, I can contribute some ideas to the community in viz design.

A recent Tableau Viz of the Day on tennis champion Novak Djokovic the King of the World by Ravi Mistry caught my attention.