Without context, your numbers have little value. I can tell you that 500 people in my county have been affected with COVID – but is that a lot? How many people are in my county? How does that compare to…
Where We Went 2019
For the past few years I have been visualizing my travels – and for 2019, I got my husband to participate! This was an insane year of travel for both of us. I had the opportunity to visit 4 continents…
Round the World with Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly was a journalist, who aimed to travel around the world in less than 80 days, as described in a book by Jules Verne. This Tableau dashboard, Round the World with Nellie Bly depicts the journey that she took,…
Traveling with Michelle in 2018
After creating my travel dashboard for 2017, I wanted to continue the tradition and design an updated dashboard for 2018. While it was pretty similar, I wanted to add an additional data point to make it more interesting. This year,…
Traveling with Michelle in 2017
At the beginning of 2018, I created my first Tableau travel map of where I had been. I wanted to show off all of the neat places that had traveled as a technology consultant! I saw a LinkedIn post advertising…
Michelle’s Lack of Travel in 2020
For the past 4 years, around December I would start preparing data for my annual Travel dashboard. This year was a little bit trickier. I left my job as a…
Lesbians Who Tech – Debug 2020 Summit
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to present at the Lesbians Who Tech & Allies Debug 2020 Summit. My topic was “How to Create Data Visualizations That Are Actually…
Tableau Conference 2020 Takeaways
Now that I am in a job where I am doing Tableau development full-time, I was really excited to be able to attend the Tableau Conference this year. Unfortunately Data…
Pandemic Impact on US Travel
This year, I made a commitment to participate in the Tableau Iron Viz. Each year there are feeder competitions with different topics, and the best visualizers from the feeder competitions…
COVID-19 in the US
Without context, your numbers have little value. I can tell you that 500 people in my county have been affected with COVID – but is that a lot? How many…
Where We Went 2019
For the past few years I have been visualizing my travels – and for 2019, I got my husband to participate! This was an insane year of travel for both…