Leading Causes of Death

• Post author:Kathy Rowell
• Post published:March 25, 2019
• Post category:Communicating Data to the Public/Data Visualization/Newsletters/Tableau/Tables
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It’s a beautiful snowy morning in New England. There’s a fire in the fireplace, and my husband is reading the newspaper with two pups snoozing away at his feet. It’s…

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Mekko Charts

• Post author:Kathy Rowell
• Post published:February 4, 2019
• Post category:Best Practices/Communicating Data to the Public/Data Visualization/Newsletters/Tableau
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I’m a long (long)-time devotee of the iconic Marimekko designs and textiles. I have Marimekko clothes (I’m sure they’re considered vintage now), and in my daughter’s bedroom I splurged on…

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Hospital Charge Data — More Than Meets the Eye

• Post author:Kathy Rowell
• Post published:February 28, 2014
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I have watched with great interest as the U.S. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has made hospital charge data available to the public, and different groups have begun…

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You Can Learn A Lot From a Watermelon Mojito

• Post author:Kathy Rowell
• Post published:September 6, 2013
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Sadly, the long, lazy afternoons making and sipping my favorite summer cocktail -- a watermelon mojito -- are winding down. I love this drink, made with fresh watermelon purée, mint,…

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Visualize a New Approach

• Post author:Kathy Rowell
• Post published:May 17, 2013
• Post category:Graphs/Newsletters/Tableau
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Hey, guess what I did last week? My husband and I finally realized our dream of owning a boat. We even named it Visualize -- for all the reasons you…

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How to Create a Geographical Heat Map

• Post author:Kathy Rowell
• Post published:April 10, 2013
• Post category:Geocoding/Tableau
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A heatmap is when color is used to encode quantitative values. The most familiar type is one that encodes values on an actual geographical map like those used in the…

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