Greater Atlanta Graduation Rates

Source: PBA 30
Authors: Charles Jones

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Best Practices:

• Good choice of colour scheme; it makes the really bad school district stand out
• Good visual layering
• Nice table included when you hover or click on a school district
• Nice map choice because everything outside of the Atlanta area is washed out
• The white borders around each school district help them pop
• Clear instructions provided
• Nice summary text throughout to help tell the story and provide context
• Clearly shows the poor areas of Atlanta (hint: these are the areas with the worst test scores)

Recommended Enhancements:

• Increase the font on the tooltips to make them easier to read
• Use no more than two fonts, preferrably one
• Allow the dashboard to be downloaded; I feel like people are hiding something when they don’t make the data and/or dashboard available for download

Woodstock: Visualising the “Three Days that Rocked the World”

Source: Tableau Public
Authors: Nicco Cirone

Disclaimer: Nicco is a student of mine at the Data School and this is his #IronViz entry which you can vote for here.

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Best Practices:

• Overall beautiful design
• Great trick using the shapes to trigger actions to other sheets
• Excellent incorporation of instructions throughout
• On the jukebox view, I really like what he did with the timeline and artist images
• Embedding the songs is pretty slick!
• The artist earnings view is simple, yet quite beautiful. Incorporating the images really makes a big difference.

Recommended Enhancements:

• Some of the text is really small, making it hard for my old eyes to read

Is England a Nation on Anti-depressants?

Source: Data School
Authors: Nicco Cirone

Disclaimer: Nicco is a student of mine at the Data School.

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Best Practices:

• Excellent story telling; the design guides me around the viz in a logical order
• Good use of labeling on the line chart; nice touch to include the % change
• Nice use of a parameter on the map
• The gray background makes the charts more prominent.

Recommended Enhancements:

• Change the font size so that the title of the map fits on one line
• Include action filters on the map so that I can click on a CCG and see the other charts update
• Colour scale is missing
• Remove the gridlines and axis from the line chart; they aren’t needed since he included the labels. This would clean up the viz a bit.
• Use a single font in the entire viz

Bruce Springsteen: His Albums, Live Shows and Song Moods

Source: Tableau Public
Authors: Pablo Saenz de Tejada

Best Practices:

• Excellent use of story points
• The black & white theme captures the tone of Bruce perfectly
• Great use of images
• Good use of actions to display more information
• Good instructions throughout
• Good font choices
• Good, consistent use of the red/blue color palette
• Nice use of annotations
• Good use of a calendar
• Great line chart for concerts per year

Recommended Enhancements:

• A few typos need to be fixed (Spanish is Pablo’s first language)
• Add a viz on the opening screen
• Change the concerts per country bar chart to a horizontal bar chart to make the countries easier to read
• Make the # of songs controller on the last viz a type in; it doesn’t fit the view now