Clearly and Simply

Tag: Custom Shapes

  • Tableau’s Viz as Art Contest – My Entries

    A sneak preview of my entries for Tableau’s “Viz as Art” Contest

    Tableau Management Dice Art PortraitsIt is visualization contest time again over at Tableau Software. This time it is a “Vis as Art” contest.

    I have published a couple of Tableau workbooks visualizing art here on Clearly and Simply in the last few years:

    Tableau Replica of Curtis Steiner’s 1,000 Blocks

    6 Famous Paintings in Tableau

    Dice Portraits of the Tableau Management

    Since I had a little selection to pick from without much extra work, I decided to take part in the contest this time and I submitted three entries: one as it is (replica of Curtis Steiner’s 1,000 blocks), a revised and enhanced one (Tableau Management Dice Portraits) and a new one (La Linea goes Tableau).

    I have seen the great quality of the shortlisted entries and the winners of former contests. Therefore I am not pitching my hopes too high, one of my visualizations could make the cut for the 10 best entries which will be published on the Tableau Public Blog. Hence, I thought I’d share my entries with you here.

    (more…)

  • Dice Portraits of the Tableau Management

    Mosaic Dice Portraits of Tableau Software’s Leadership Team

    Dice Portrait of Christian ChabotFirst things first: this is a fun post. Don’t expect to learn much from today’s article, neither about Data Visualization in general nor about special tips and tricks in Tableau.Today’s post is in line with 2 fun articles about (re-)creating art with Tableau Software:

    Tableau Replica of Curtis Steiner’s 1,000 Blocks

    and

    6 Famous Paintings in Tableau

    The article is adopting an idea of creating images using different faces of a dice: mosaic dice pictures or portraits. The post includes the beautiful article and video I stole this idea from and my Tableau workbook showing the portraits of the members of the Tableau Management Team using dice face custom shapes.

    (more…)

  • Tableau Replica of Curtis Steiner’s 1,000 Blocks

    Emulation of Daniel Ferry’s Celtic muse Excel workbook using Tableau Software

    Daniel Ferry’s blog Excel Hero is a source of permanent inspiration for me. In a recent article called Animate cumulative data with Tableau, I described how to use a custom SQL data connection to show cumulative data using Tableau’s page shelf. This post was inspired by one of Daniel’s great articles: Excel Location Mapping.

    In true tradition of stealing Daniel’s ideas, today’s short post contains another replica of one of his Excel workbooks using Tableau Software: Daniel’s implementation of the "1,000 Blocks" sculpture by Curtis Steiner (unfortunately without the soundtrack, of course…).

    Here is an animation of a selection of 10 out of 78 slides:

    1,000 blocks

    Tableau Public does not support the slide show of pages using the playback controls. Thus, I decided not to publish on Tableau Public. Instead, here is the Tableau packaged workbook for free download:

    Download 1,000 Blocks Celtic Muse (Tableau Packaged Workbook, 2640.7K)

    To open this workbook you need Tableau 5.2 (14-day free trial) or the free Tableau Reader.

    Last, but not least:

    Daniel, many thanks again for sharing your fabulous work, for the time you took to review my Tableau workbook and for your permission to use your idea here. Special thanks go also to Daniel’s wife and daughter who helped him with the encoding of 78,000 (!) tiles. Thank you very much.