Mon, Mar 18 2019

Creating effective and beautiful visualizations is a process. Very rarely (along with many things in life) do you get it right the first time. Instead you work through versions, trial & error, iterations and receiving feedback until you land on the…

David Napoli Excellent post and walk-through of designing and creating a new data visualization

In many engineering classes, computational methods are treated with fear, uncertainty, and doubt. At the same time, analytic methods are presented as if they were magic. I think we should spend more time on computational methods, which means…

David Napoli This is a interesting and thought-provoking view point on whether or not it is important to understand the 'black box' of algorithms. IMHO, it is vital to have a foundational basis for 'analytic skepticism' for initial expectations. Great read.

For anyone working with Tableau for some time now, it is probably no surprise to say it is a truly amazing tool empowering users to create beautiful and robust data visualizations. In fact, in recent years the tool has seen many developments and…

David Napoli Great advice and guidance for dashboard design

At Visme, we strive to make it easy for non-designers to create great-looking content for their presentations and visual marketing. We also like to help inspire amazing designs with useful knowledge and creative ideas. For this reason, we asked a…

David Napoli Good advice for data visualizers — empathizing with your audience, approaching the visualization process as problem solving, and more

If you are a data scientist, a machine learning engineer, an AI specialist, or however the heck you want to call yourself, chances are that at some point in your professional career you have encountered at least one manager that doesn't understand…

David Napoli This post does an excellent job of explaining 'What is data science?' (it is science) and 'Why is it a thing?' (can you say 'open source tools'?)

If you are a Tableau server admin or interact with your Tableau people that work the magic in the back-end. The chances of you placing a desperate call to let them know you or someone has accidentally deleted something is a quite a common…

David Napoli Even if you realize how important version control is, it's more important than that. And it makes your, your team, and your organization's life easier.

The graphic train schedule based on a line grid (often falsely attributed to Étienne-Jules Marey) is an influential early visualization method for railway traffic. Here is everything you need to know about it. Of course you've seen this…

David Napoli Great story of this historical data visualization