Sharing my cancer story with data viz
Click the image above to view in full screen. I have cancer. Specifically, I’ve had thyroid cancer twice and I’m currently on leave following my second surgery in as many years. It was a successful one, and hopefully I am yet again on the mend, but nothing is guaranteed. If you stop reading here, just please take one piece of advice: enjoy every single day to the best extent that you can. As you might imagine, the past few years for me has been a roller coaster of emotions. However, during this time I was actively training for a half marathon and weighing myself on a smart scale daily. When taking a look at the data in the various apps available to me, I found myself a little frustrated at how the data was displayed and the level of granularity I had access to. I learned that I could export basically all of it, and then started dropping it in Google Sheets. This quickly made me remember that it’s been quite some time since I played with Tableau, so I downloaded the Public ve...