Bob Gale’s Blog

I’m a historical aviation nut, so when I recently looked for some public data to play with, I turned to the FAA’s database of all civilian aircraft registered in the United States. My curiosity paid off because my first foray into that data led to an interesting topic for viz...

Below is a viz I published on Tableau Public viz and embedded in this blog post to demonstrate the ability to easily enhance web pages with interactive data visualizations. It also takes advantage of Tableau’s Device Designer to optimize the layout for mobile devices. View this page on a mobile...

I work on a team that builds Tableau dashboards for hundreds of users spread across the US. We’ve been looking at ways to improve our overall user experience, and have started investigating how many users are accessing our dashboards via desktop vs. mobile devices. Our goal was to make a...

Way back when I worked in the newspaper industry, I got to participate in the transition from laying out pages with x-acto knives and glue to desktop publishing. The old method was called “cold type” because it replaced something called “hot type” that I never got to see. This video...

I recently came up with a job interview exercise to explore how engineering team candidates approach juggling priorities. This can be especially helpful for junior candidates who don’t have as much experience to draw upon to answer a question like “Tell me about a time when your team faced multiple conflicting priorities, and how you...