Jerome Cukier

Following my Tableau politics contest entry, here is another view I had developed but which I didn’t include in the already full dashboard. In the main view I have tried to show how the values of candidates relate to those of the French. It’s difficult to convey that graphically when these values are determined by [...]

what led me to those choices I was technically happy of my entry for the sports contest. I had done what I wanted: obtain a hard-to-find, interesting dataset, attempt to create an exotic, hard-to-make and never-tableau’d-before shape with aesthetic appeal and insights. Yet the rules stated that the entries shall be judged on the story-telling [...]

Here is my entry for the Tableau 2012 politics contest. Source of the data: Economic statistics from OECD, opinion data from TNS Sofres. Making-of and explanation post to follow.

I’m writing this short post because I see that exact phrase come up in the search engine terms of the blog now and again (along with “Hello this is bathtub” but I can’t really help there). Long story short. I run into problems all the time trying to properly embed Tableau vis into wordpress blog [...]

So here goes for the 2012 Tableau contest entry. Before I go on explaining what this is about and how it’s been made, I’d like to express my thanks to Opta for letting me use this awesome dataset. They have been very reactive and supportive. So what is this? So the assignment was to create [...]

Tableau can do many things natively but there are a couple of basic primitives that are not built in because they behave somewhat differently from the overall logic. And treemaps is one of them. Then again treemaps are arguably one of the best way to express complex hierarchical information, i.e. to show the proportions in [...]

Normally, at this time of the year, I’ll be writing a recap of VisWeek. And I will – the writeups I have been doing for visualisingdata.com were just highlights of individual talks. But much of my VisWeek 2011 experience happened in between the talks. People you meet, ideas you glimpse, that collide and generate new [...]

I’ve been posting quite a few times on Tableau these last few days, so I’ll end up the week with one viz I had previously shared on twitter with some success. Sheet 1 Powered by Tableau so what’s the story? I have been inspired to do this via the work on onformative which I discovered [...]

have been announced. My entry got honorary mentions which is the best I could hope for not being based in the US! anyway, the rewards is going through the process, seeing what others have done. and learn from the process. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Agnieszka – Russian Sphinx chose a subject similar [...]

Real-estate transactions in ManhattanResidential buildings, 2003-present Powered by Tableau Here is my Tableau contest 2011 entry. The rules stipulated it had to be about business, real-estate or finance, so I chose real-estate. Since everyone loves New-York, and since the data for real-estate transaction is relatively easy to get, that’s what I show. In order to [...]