How to use a structured approach to visual design to improve the look of a #dataviz. What else would you change? #tableau #analytics #makeover #datavizlive

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Last year i took a weekend course on #botanicals with Claudine O’Sullivan. She really opened my eyes to colour and close observation. This week, i went back to #regentspark and sat #sketching with the #begonia plants. #watercolor #penandink #walktosee #illustration

This is a leaf from our #begonia rex: a cutting from my aunt’s plant, which is a cutting from my Gran’s plant. Gran knew every female lead in Shakespeare by heart, was an awesome painter, and delighted in doing high kicks well into her 80s #watercolor #illustration #houseplants

Love this article on Covid-19 #dataviz fails and how important it is to get it right. By Katherine Ellen Foley (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈 qz.com/1872980/how-ba…

#Lemons at various stages of ripeness. You can see me exploring how to make the dimples. Coloured pencil? Yellow? Green? Orange? Nope. More ink :) #watercolour and pearlescent #ink. #patternart #foodillustration #watercolourfood

This deep dive into his history and approach to illustrating #ChildrensBooks from Axel Scheffler is amazing. blog.picturebookmakers.com/post/623693862…

Finally, I get to share some news I've been sitting on since last year!! So excited to be working with Orbit Books, Brit E. B. Hvide, and Jenni Hill - find me at @jennihill.bsky.social on this book of my heart. And it's been hardest to keep quiet about this amazing cover from Tommy Arnold!! Also it's gay. Real gay. ⚔️

Super proud to create the visuals to share this important research on UK comics creators.

Ummm... *taps mic* Get money, ppl! "The fellowship’s tenure is nine to 12 months, and the award is valued at $50,000"

The Flowers Gallery has an online exhibition of Jack Smith rn. It's the kind of beautiful abstract art i think will appeal to a lot of my #dataviz peeps flowersgallery.com/exhibitions/50…

Still a few spots left for our event tomorrow :) come learn about how Tableau and analytics is used in the world of science 🧪

Our most recent work is out in Nature! We're reporting on (reinforcement) learning to navigate Loon stratospheric balloons and minimizing the sim2real gap. Results from a 39-day Pacific Ocean experiment show RL keeps its strong lead in real conditions. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Any of my #dataviz #tableau people looking for a new role in a friendly team? NowTV are hiring and doing exciting things! careers.sky.com/job/11809590/l… David Pires Mark Edwards Sarah Bartlett pls share :)

I have a new article out with Nightingale, journal of the Data Visualization Society, all about how audience affects your chart design choices: medium.com/nightingale/wh…

I've a stacked bar chart with 6 bars representing answers to 6 questions. I want to click on a segment, and that to filter all other bars to the same respondents. I feel like this should be simple, but can’t make it work! help! #tableau Nathan Adams Alina Cristea Mark Edwards

Is it totally impossible to pass a date range using a url action in #tableau? I'm wondering if it's possible to do something interesting with parameter actions... (users don't want to set a start and end date separately--they love the sliders) Mark Edwards Alina Cristea 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒚 ‧₊ ᵎᵎ 📖 ⋅ ˚✮

I wrote a thing. "Rethinking Data Visualisation | Lessons learned from product development" 🤔 #lifeatexpediagroup link.medium.com/PwUAkzHhJeb

Brilliant offer from Penguin Books UK here - rt to win a copy of six debut novels (including Fragile Monsters!)