Should an AI’s opinion of your personality affect whether you get a job?

Source: Retorio At first glance, that question may feel like a perfect example of Betteridge's law of headlines, the adage which states that if a headline ends in a question mark then one can usually assume the answer is no. That might well be the case here, but it doesn't seem like it's stopping some … Continue reading Should an AI’s opinion of your personality affect whether you get a job? →

Official UK Covid-19 vaccination progress data

Now that the Covid-19 vaccination program is under way, data fans might be interested in obtaining the stats of how the UK is doing in terms of vaccinations administered so far. The NHS is publishing a variety of these reports and, even better, the underlying data here. The most comprehensive data there is likely the … Continue reading Official UK Covid-19 vaccination progress data →

Solving the the case of the 6cm man with assertive programming

Liam Thorp, political editor of the Liverpool Echo, was recently surprised to receive an invite to receive a Covid-19 vaccine. Whilst the UK does seem to be numerically ahead in absolute terms of many (but not all) other countries when it comes to at putting first-doses into people, we're still at the stage where only … Continue reading Solving the the case of the 6cm man with assertive programming →

Do Millennials have no friends?

I recently read an article claiming that 22% of Millennials say they have no friends. And then many other articles with the same figure. This made me feel sad. Some of the articles further distinguished between "close" and "best" friends, so here we're presumably talking about just any friend of any level at all. Sure, … Continue reading Do Millennials have no friends? →

Future features coming to Tableau 10.2 and beyond – that they didn’t blog about

Having slowly de-jetlagged from this year's (fantastic and huge) Tableau conference, I'd settled down to write up my notes regarding the always-thrilling "what new features are on the cards?" sessions, only to note that Tableau have already done a pretty good job of summarising it on their own blog here, here and here. There's little point … Continue reading Future features coming to Tableau 10.2 and beyond – that they didn’t blog about →

What people claim to believe: Hillary Clinton edition

Back to political opinion polls today I'm afraid. Yep, the UK's Brexit is all done and dusted (haha) but now our overseas friends seem to be facing what might be an even more unlikely choice in the grand US presidential election 2016. Luckily, the pollsters are on hand to guide us through the inner minds and … Continue reading What people claim to believe: Hillary Clinton edition →

Do good and bad viz choices exist?

Browsing the wonderful timeline of Twitter one evening, I noted an interesting discussion on subjects including Tableau Public, best practice, chart choices and dataviz critique. It's perhaps too long to go into here, but this tweet from Chris Love caught my eye. https://twitter.com/ChrisLuv/status/788541483355873281 Not being particularly auspicious with regards to summarising my thoughts into 140 characters, I wanted to explore some thoughts around … Continue reading Do good and bad viz choices exist? →

Remember the exciting new features Tableau demoed at #data15 – have we got them yet?

As we get closer towards the thrills of this year's Tableau Conference (#data16), I wanted to look back at one of the most fun parts of the last year's conference - the "devs on stage" section. That's the part where Tableau employees announce and demonstrate some of the new features that they're working on. No guarantees are made as to whether they'll … Continue reading Remember the exciting new features Tableau demoed at #data15 – have we got them yet? →

Help decide who self-driving cars should kill

Automated self-driving cars are surely on their way. Given the direction of technological development, this seems a safe enough prediction to make - at least when taking the coward's option of not specifying a time frame. A self-driving car is, after all, a data processor, and we like to think that we're getting better at dealing … Continue reading Help decide who self-driving cars should kill →

The Tableau #MakeoverMonday doesn’t need to be complicated

For a while, a couple of key members of the insatiably effervescent Tableau community, Andy Cotgreave and Andy Kriebel, have been running a "Makeover Monday" activity. Read more and get involved here - but a simplistic summary would be that they distribute a nicely processed dataset on a topic of the day that relates to someone else's existing visualisation, and all the rest … Continue reading The Tableau #MakeoverMonday doesn’t need to be complicated →