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3/30/2015

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You know when the kids are watching Scooby-Doo, you're enjoying a cup of coffee reading your Bloglovin' feed and start looking at a viz, and then think, "I wonder what this would look like, if...". The kiddos granted me enough peace that I could actually ponder life's questions and play around with Andy Kriebel's FB Commute by Shuttle Analysis viz. 
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Click the image to interact with Andy's viz.
So there were three things that I noticed when I was looking at this viz.  
1) The header said that Summer Breaks Lead to Better Commutes but then I see weekdays on columns. So I was wondering what it would look like if weekdays and months were swapped, so that I could more easily see if the commute was better in the summer. 
2) Super nit-picky, but I wanted to see  what the summary above the viz looked like without the lines.
3) As I was playing around, I saw the tool tips, which are based on the defaults. Personally, I love to customize tool tips. 
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So this was kind of frightening on Saturday morning....I heard Andy's voice in my head telling me to download it and see what the viz would look like if I made some changes.  So that's what I did. I swapped the columns and rows, I tweaked the tooltips to look more like a sentence, I changed 'goal' to be 'expected' (I think he's played/watched too much soccer/football), and I got rid of the gridlines. I was also playing around with the size of the viz. So, why exactly did I do all of this?  I suppose because I was curious and because I could.  I really wanted to see if swapping would make a difference (because then I'll think about that the next time I build a viz).  Here's an image of the viz with my changes. 
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Tooltip tweaked!
So here's a visual comparison recap.  Big shout out to my kids for the peace and Andy for having a nice viz I could play around with.  

Visual Comparison

So, what do you think? Curious about some other changes? Download the workbook and give it a go!
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