Simon BeaumontDec 12, 20194 minAre you suffering from perfection procrastination?An honest reflection about the ongoing struggle people face with perfection procrastination and how you can overcome this within your CoE.
Simon BeaumontJun 21, 20192 minGoing under the hoodHow many times have you seen a viz on Tableau Public and thought wow? A fair few, right? I would imagine in many instances that wow has l...
Simon BeaumontMar 1, 20193 minEnabling interactive maps through transparency, layering and imagesConfession time. This post has actually been six months in the making and the original idea came from my ‘Rainforest of the seas’ IronViz...
Simon BeaumontSep 13, 20187 minGiving the H2O down on my IronViz submissionBefore I dive in (sorry, the first sentence and already I am up to two bad water related puns, please don’t reach for the X just yet) I w...
Simon BeaumontAug 3, 20188 min100 not outThis week I hit the triple figures on Tableau Public; 100 visualisations using a platform I have quickly come to cherish. Tableau Public ...
Simon BeaumontMay 11, 20183 minCentring your highlighted jitter pointWeek 19 of Makeover Monday in 2018 challenged people to visualise the toughest sports, according to survey data conducted by ESPN. With t...
Simon BeaumontMay 6, 20184 minWaterfall charts - #SWDChallengeThe reason I enjoy participating in the Storytelling With Data Challenges is due to the simplicity of the challenge; there is no complex ...
Simon BeaumontApr 11, 20184 minBusiness <> Boring : 'Performance Pops' lollipop benchmark chartsI have lost count of the number of times I have been handed team level benchmarking analysis and the data has been visualised in the form...
Simon BeaumontApr 9, 20182 minMargin line charts? That's what I'm calling them!On Friday 6th April 2018 I was fortunate enough to be awarded Tableau Public Viz Of The Day for my #SportsVizSunday analysis of The Maste...
Simon BeaumontMar 22, 20182 minBusiness <> Boring : Heat dial demand analysisWelcome to the first in a series of mini blog posts that have been inspired by Jonni Walker's recent #UKHealthTUG presentation 'Doing it ...
Simon BeaumontMar 19, 20182 minMakeoverMonday - Centred doughnut chartsIn this week’s Makeover Monday we were presented with a really small data set, 12 rows by 3 columns. With such limited data available I w...
Simon BeaumontMar 11, 20183 minHighlighted bar charts - #SWDChallengeThe March 2018 Storytelling With Data Challenge (#SWDChallenge) was a simple one; to create a basic bar chart. It is this level of simpli...
Simon BeaumontMar 3, 20183 minAn infographic rant and a much needed UKHealthTUG makeoverFor every UK Healthcare Tableau User Group #UKHealthTUG we try to set a data viz challenge; encouraging participants to share a visualisa...
Simon BeaumontFeb 13, 20184 minRaising the bar - Customising Tableau bar chartsOn Monday 12th February 2018 I was fortunate enough to have my 'Need for speed' #WinterGamesViz selected as the Tableau Public Viz Of The...
Simon BeaumontJan 22, 20182 minGame. Tableau Set. and MatchOn January 1st 2018, Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor retired from the Professional Darts Corporation, ending a career that spanned over 30 years ...
Simon BeaumontJan 14, 20184 minAnnotated line charts - #SWDChallengeIn January 2018 Cole Knaflic started a new, monthly, Story Telling With Data challenge for 2018. January's challenge was to create an ann...
Simon BeaumontJan 14, 20186 minWhen less isn't always moreSo often we are told less is more; keep it simple; white space is good. These are all statements I completely agree with, however when de...
Simon BeaumontJan 14, 20181 minCreating alternating measuresMy latest #BestNewTableauSkill reflects on a technique I used within this week's Makeover Monday during which people were challenged to v...
