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Data Viz Exploration: Visualizing the 4,627 Royals Games Since 1985

As lifelong Kansas City Royals fans, it has been a long time the last time the boys in blue were spotted in the MLB Playoffs. As you can imagine, twenty-nine seasons, particularly in baseball, provides …
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Data Driven Storytelling Tip #4: Keep It Simple

I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. – Mark Twain We love this quote from Mark Twain because the author is putting a value on prioritizing …
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Data Driven Storytelling Tip #3: Leverage Color

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.– Georgia O’Keeffe During his keynote presentation at the 2014 Tableau Conference, …
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Data Driven Storytelling Tip #2: Smooth the Excel Transition

Tableau is not Excel. Excel is not Tableau. One of the most common barriers to Tableau adoption is the belief that similar data visualizations can be created more easily in Excel. This may be true …
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Data Driven Storytelling Tip #1: Know Your Audience

There are not many tactics that are going to improve the chances of your data visualization making a difference around the workplace more than tip number one: Know Your Audience. In fact, the tips listed in …
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Q1 2014 KC TUG Meeting Announcement

The first quarterly Kansas City Tableau User Group meeting of 2014 is set for the night of Tuesday, February 18th at the offices of HNTB in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The meeting will start promptly …
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KC Traffic by Intersection [Visualization]

The central theme of our data visualization practice at Evolytics is that “the key to making sense of data is visualization.” We feel that has never been truer than when trying to interpret the traffic …
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Data Viz Exploration: Cost of Living in the United States

Making Sense of Data One of our favorite quotes at Evolytics and the driving mindset behind our data visualization practice is that “The key to making sense of data is visualization.” That’s why we are …
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